Improving new product development innovation effectiveness by using problem solving tools during the conceptual development phase: Integrating Design Thinking and TRIZ

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-700
Author(s):  
Ricardo Henrique Da Silva ◽  
Paulo C. Kaminski ◽  
Fabiano Armellini
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
New Product ◽  
Development Phase

scholarly journals Resource-Constrained Innovation Method for Sustainability: Application of Morphological Analysis and TRIZ Inventive Principles

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenfeng Liu ◽  
Jian Feng ◽  
Jinfeng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
New Product ◽  
Resource Constrained ◽  
Research Avenue

Extensive research on resource-constrained innovation has been conducted by scholars and practitioners in recent years. An interesting research avenue is how firms explore the process of the new product development (NPD) and the ideas generation to foster resource-constrained innovation. However, despite the importance of product development and creative ideas under the resource-constraints contexts, innovation methods for applying to the resource-constrained innovation and designers have received comparatively less attention. As a remedy, this paper proposes a resource-constrained innovation method (RCIM) to generate ideas for the NPD. The RCIM is mainly divided into four sections: Developing the resource-constrained innovation approaches, developing the resource-constrained innovation dimensions, generating the creative ideas and evaluating the creative ideas. First, the resource-constrained innovation algorithms are developed based on success factors, characteristics, and attributes of resource-constrained innovation and the TRIZ (Teopия Peшeния Изoбpeтaтeльcкиx Зaдaч in Russian; Theory of Inventive Problem Solving in English) inventive principles via the systematic literature review (SLR). Second, the innovation dimensions are categorized to structure a target technology by means of the morphological analysis (MA) and the Derwent manual codes (DMCs) mapping based on collected patents. Third, the creative ideas are generated for the NPD by combining the innovation dimensions with the resource-constrained innovation approaches. Finally, the creative ideas are evaluated by the frugal criteria. The RCIM will stimulate designers’ creativity for achieving sustainability and innovation within constraint-based scenarios, MA and TRIZ.

Does supplier involvement enhance financial performance? The encapsulation effects of product modularity and smartness

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Wang ◽  
Tao Jia ◽  
Jinliang Chen ◽  
Qiujun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Product Modularity ◽  
Supplier Involvement ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This study aims to explore the conditional relationships between supplier involvement and financial performance. From a problem-solving perspective, this study takes the focal firm as a problem-solving system. It is postulated that supplier involvement enhances financial performance by helping solve complex problems of new product development. Furthermore, product modularity and smartness are considered contingent factors to clarify the boundary conditions. Design/methodology/approach The ordinary least squares regression was conducted to test the hypotheses based on survey data from 136 high-tech firms in China. Findings Supplier involvement is positively related to financial performance. Product modularity weakens the impact of supplier involvement on financial performance. Furthermore, product smartness strengthens the negative influence of product modularity on the relationship between supplier involvement and financial performance. Originality/value This study combines supplier involvement with product attributes. It takes a problem-solving perspective to rethink suppliers’ roles in new product development as problem-solvers rather than resource holders. Furthermore, this study advances the encapsulation effects of product modularity and smartness to influence the supplier involvement–financial performance link.

TOO MANY TOOLS? ON PROBLEM SOLVING IN NPD PROJECTS

2002 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 163-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOS BENDERS ◽  
PATRICK VERMEULEN
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
New Product ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Considerable Body ◽  
Managerial Problem

Complaints that new product development projects frequently encounter problems keep occurring, despite the availability of a considerable body of literature and a large and still increasing set of tools to guide such projects. Against the wider background of managerial problem-solving in general and NPD-literature more specifically, we present and analyse two NPD-projects within the same financial services firm. These show a marked contrast in success. The reasons for this difference are explored and conclusions are drawn about the usefulness of NPD-literature and tools.

Structured Problem-Solving Techniques to Stimulate Innovation in New Product Development in UK SMEs

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.M. Hall ◽  
A. McKinna ◽  
G. Thake
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
New Product ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Structured Problem Solving ◽  
The Right

‘Innovation’ is an often used, yet much misunderstood term. Often innovation is left to chance or, at best, approached by relatively unstructured hard work and hard thinking. This paper describes a research programme known as the ‘Futures Project’, which provides a ‘virtual’ body of expertise that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can access when increased innovation activity is required. By exposing SMEs to techniques for the generation of new and potentially innovative ideas, and for developing the right ideas at the right time, new techniques and improved versions of old techniques can be tested in a non-threatening environment.

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