Incorporating Environmental, Quality and Economic Considerations Into Early Product Development Stage

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Wang ◽  
Ping Ge
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Environment Impact ◽  
Environmental Model ◽  
Research Issues

Environmental impact is becoming an important consideration in product development, such as recycling in electronics industry and air pollution in automobile industry, besides product quality and economic growth. Incorporating the environmental impact consideration into business practice as early as possible can lead to direct impact on both strategic planning in a firm and the final product, which will benefit the firm and its customers. However, many different types of business activities and levels of decision-making involved at the early stage make the simultaneous consideration of environmental impact, quality and cost hard to render. An investigation on the existing research has shown that the activity-based cost/environmental model, in a uniform representation (activity), is useful in relating business activities to the performance measures in terms of cost and environment impact resulting from these activities. In this work, the authors argue about the needs and issues on explicitly integrating quality concern into the existing activity-based cost/environmental model. The expanded model, i.e., Three-View Activity-Based Model, is intended to help construct a clear road map to represent “what is going on?” and facilitate the measure of “how well are we doing?” in a business firm with product development involved. Product quality is treated as a driver as environment and cost for the activities, which enables quantitative performance assessment of the product quality related activities. As a result of introducing the quality driver, the need to differentiate the activities directly related to product development from other activities is identified. This has led to a study on the classification of the activities and their relationship to environmental impact, product quality, and cost objectives along a product development process with life cycle considerations. The three-view activity-based model may make it possible to evaluate the effectiveness of activities against these objectives at early product development stage, and therefore, recommend changes for reshaping a firm’s strategic planning and improving current practice. Since our investigation is still at its preliminary stage, in this paper, we will present our initial results, and address research issues for the future work.

On the Use of a Simplified New Product Development Process in an Early-Stage Firm

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tucker J. Marion ◽  
Timothy W. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
New Product ◽  
Consumer Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Established Firms ◽  
New Product Development Process

Disciplined product development has been a hallmark of mature companies for many decades, resulting in shorter development cycles, reduced costs, and higher quality products. Unfortunately, these tools and processes have typically been applied in large, well-established firms, not start-up companies. In this paper, we describe a simplified new product development process for early-stage firms and its application to a consumer product in which the process was executed during a 14-month development cycle. The process consists of 15-steps in 3-phases, two decision gates, and provides a step-by-step guide for development, with specific call-outs as to what, when, and where tools such as market segmentation, platform planning, industrial design, and cost modeling should be applied. The proposed process is applied to design a new consumer product, and the case study results are discussed with specific emphasis on costs, duration, and applicability of the process and its related engineering tools. Finally, we conclude with comments on the limitations of the proposed process, potential improvements, and future work.

scholarly journals Integration of Application Code Simulations for Data exchange

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (07) ◽  
pp. 659-666
Author(s):  
Basankar Vikas ◽  
◽  
Dr. S. P. Metkar ◽  
Manoj Mane ◽  
Bhuvaneshwar Kanade ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Suitable Method ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Integration Approach ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Industry Automation

In every product development industry, automation plays a key role in increasing the throughput of the company and providing better planning in product development and improved product quality. It is very necessary to find a solution to interdependencies during the product development process. During simulation-based analysis of a product, it is required that the need for actual hardware of the product is to be eliminated. Because of this, the functionality of the actual hardware can be analyzed by using software using simulations. If simulations of different products are running, the data is to be exchanged between different simulations effectively. It can be considered as simulating data exchange, as it is implemented in the hardware form. A proper and suitable method is to be used to have this goal achieved. This paper will address the integration approach for application code simulations or programs that are built to perform specific tasks.

Is Collaboration Important at All Stages of the Biotechnology Product Development Process?

2017 ◽  
pp. 130-176
Author(s):  
Catherine Beaudry
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Statistics Canada

Using the four Biotechnology Uses and Development surveys of Statistics Canada, the chapter examine the importance of collaborating with firms and public institutions at various stages of product development, from research and development to clinical trials and then on to production and commercialization. The models examine the propensity to have products at a particular stage of development using instrumental variables probit regressions. This chapter finds that while small firms do not benefit from collaborating with firms at the research and development stage, during the clinical trials and in the production phases, collaborating with firms has a strong positive effect. The factors that affect the R&D phase are R&D expenditures, an important IP strategy, revenues from contracts and to some extent contracting out some innovation activities. In later stages of the development process, the number of patents and the diversity of the biotechnology employment team play a more crucial role.

What Influences the Growth of Canadian Biotechnology Firms?

Biotechnology ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1795-1825
Author(s):  
Catherine Beaudry ◽  
Joël Levasseur
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Firm Growth ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Firm Characteristics ◽  
Biotechnology Firms ◽  
Size Of Firms ◽  
Statistics Canada

This chapter examines the influence of firm characteristics on the growth of all Canadian biotechnology firms. Data collected by Statistics Canada from four Biotechnology Uses and Development Surveys (1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005) characterise the size, origin, contracts, IP, collaboration, financing, product development stage, tax credits of Canadian biotechnology firms, while employment data from the Business Register of the organisation provides the size of firms beyond 2005. Results show the importance of collaboration for exploration (knowledge) purposes, the importance of alliances for exploitation (commercialization) purposes for firms with rapid growth. Furthermore, a good product development process that brings products through regulation towards commercialization has a positive impact on firm growth and so does R&D expenses.

Is Collaboration Important at All Stages of the Biotechnology Product Development Process?

Biotechnology ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1759-1794
Author(s):  
Catherine Beaudry
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Statistics Canada

Using the four Biotechnology Uses and Development surveys of Statistics Canada, the chapter examine the importance of collaborating with firms and public institutions at various stages of product development, from research and development to clinical trials and then on to production and commercialization. The models examine the propensity to have products at a particular stage of development using instrumental variables probit regressions. This chapter finds that while small firms do not benefit from collaborating with firms at the research and development stage, during the clinical trials and in the production phases, collaborating with firms has a strong positive effect. The factors that affect the R&D phase are R&D expenditures, an important IP strategy, revenues from contracts and to some extent contracting out some innovation activities. In later stages of the development process, the number of patents and the diversity of the biotechnology employment team play a more crucial role.

The Fuzzy Front End: Concept Development in the Automotive Industry

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christer W. Elverum ◽  
Torgeir Welo ◽  
Martin Steinert
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Fuzzy Front End ◽  
Front End

The fuzzy front end (FFE) of new product development (NPD) is a term that refers to the early stages of the innovation process. This paper investigates the FFE in the automotive industry and addresses the challenges of working in this phase of the innovation process, as well as the academic definition of the FFE relative to the real world. Two parts of the innovation process have been identified and characterized as FFE: the concept-work within satellite front-end departments and the work within the pre-development phase of the vehicle new product development process. It has been identified that one of the greatest challenges related to working in the FFE is developing viable concepts that will “sell” internally. Estimating and conveying the overall value of the final product in terms of costs and customer benefits are two of the key elements that make it difficult to achieve internal “buy in”. Furthermore, it is argued that the most common academic perception of the FFE seem to be inadequate since it only concerns work that ends with a go/no-go decision whether to continue into development or not. Consequently, it fails to capture early-stage development work of transformational innovations, where the decision of development has already been made and the uncertainty is related to the execution of the work — and — not the outcome. Semi-structured interviews with a total of eleven employees at seven different automotive OEMs form the basis for the conclusions made herein.

New Product Quality and Product Development Teams

2000 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajesh Sethi
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
New Product Quality

New product quality has been found to have a major influence on the market success and profitability of a new product. Firms are increasingly using cross-functional teams for product development in hopes of improving product quality, yet researchers know little about how such teams affect quality. The author proposes and tests a series of hypotheses regarding how new product quality is affected by team characteristics (functional diversity and information integration) and contextual influences (time pressure, product innovativeness from the firm's perspective, customers’ influence on the product development process, and quality orientation in the firm). The findings reveal that quality is positively related to information integration in the team, customers’ influence on the product development process, and quality orientation in the firm. New product quality is negatively influenced by the innovativeness of the new product from the firm's perspective. However, information integration mitigates the negative effect of innovativeness on quality. Quality orientation weakens the relationship between information integration and quality. Time pressure and functional diversity do not have any effect on product quality.

CORPORATE CHAMPIONS OF EARLY-STAGE PROJECT PROPOSALS AND THE INSTITUTIONALISATION OF ORGANISATIONAL INERTIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050028
Author(s):  
HEIDI M. J. BERTELS ◽  
MURAD MITHANI ◽  
SIWEI ZHU ◽  
PETER A. KOEN
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Mba Students ◽  
Executive Mba ◽  
Using Data ◽  
To Receive

This study looks at the role of champions in the early stages of the product development process, when employees try to secure initial funding for project proposals. Project proposals that fail to receive funding never become part of the firm’s project pipeline; hence, it is critical to understand the champion’s role early on. Existing research on corporate champions is mostly focused on the later stages of the new product development process and has generally identified corporate champions as key to projects likely to face organisational resistance. However, several recent studies suggest that champions may prefer projects less likely to face organisational resistance. Using data from project proposals of executive MBA students across 78 large organisations, we find that champion support for the team is weaker for project proposals likely to evoke resistance and that such lower champion support further reduces the likelihood of high-resistance early-stage proposals to receive initial funding.

scholarly journals An Integrated Approach for Eco-Design and Its Application in LED Lighting Product Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 488
Author(s):  
Daizhong Su ◽  
Jose L. Casamayor ◽  
Xuemin Xu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Lifecycle Assessment ◽  
Module Design ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Eco Features

Lighting products are essential for our modern life nowadays, but they also produce high negative impacts on the environment. Although there are tools and methods available for reducing the environmental impact of lighting products, it is a challenging task to integrate them throughout the product development process. To overcome the challenge, this research developed an approach to integrate tools/methods relevant for the eco-design through product development process to reduce the environmental impact of lighting products. Six types of methods, such module design, and 30 tools, such as lifecycle assessment software packages, are considered in the integrated approach. The product specification with eco-constrains is established for implementation at each design stage to ensure the product eco-features. The approach was applied in the development of an LED table lamp which was then assessed in comparison with a benchmark LED lamp regarding environmental lifecycle impact and lighting performance. The comparative assessment results indicate that the LED lamp developed with this approach is much better than the benchmark lamp.

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