scholarly journals Front End of Innovation: An Integrative Literature Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariane Rodrigues Pereira ◽  
João José Pinto Ferreira ◽  
Alexandra Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
New Products ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Reference Models ◽  
Important Contributor ◽  
Front End ◽  
Number Of Publications

The beginning of the innovation process also known as Front End of Innovation (FEI) is an important contributor to the successful development of new products and the business success. The present study aims at giving an overview of how the FEI concept has been handled over the years, by identifying the focus of the research conducted in this domain knowledge. To this end, this study unfolds an encompassing perspective by developing an analysis of existing publications against two FEI Reference Models. This analysis comprised of the compilation, selection, and review of the content of 169 publications concerning the Front End of Innovation. The period of analysis covered all years until 2015. Evidence shows that this topic has received greater attention in the recent years both regarding depth and the number of publications. However, there are still pending gaps in the literature that are highlighted in this paper. The topics addressing organisational issues were the ones that received more attention.

scholarly journals PROPOSAL FOR A COMPREHENSIVE AND INTEGRATED MODEL OF SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PRODUCTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
Ana Sofia Martins da Eira Dias ◽  
António João Pina da Costa Feliciano Abreu ◽  
Helena Victorovna Guitiss Navas
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
New Products ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Systemic Model ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Holistic Assessment

The development of new products (NPD) is crucial for the existence of companies, source of competitive advantage and determinant of their business success. Several factors, both operational and organizational or even strategic, contribute to the innovation process that supports NPD. The holistic assessment of all these factors as a whole has not been the subject of research leading to the proposal for an integrated and systemic model. In this way, this article aims to propose a comprehensive conceptual model that integrates the strategic, organizational and procedural levels, as well as the set of factors to be taken into account in NPD projects. Based on the literature review, a comprehensive and integrated conceptual model of NPD support (MAIDNP) is deductive-inductive. This model can therefore be a tool for evaluating processes, projects and products, dedicated to companies that innovate, design and develop new products.

Critical Success Factors in Russian R&D Projects in the Real Economy

2010 ◽  
pp. 41-61
Author(s):  
V. Andreev
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Industrial Products ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
The Real ◽  
Critical Success

The article discusses the concept of "success" in relation to innovative business and its performance. The quantity of innovative projects that can consistently overcome the stages of the innovation process to achieve the desired result is defined. The author presents the results of empirical research of successful and unsuccessful projects of leading Russian innovative companies in various industries, identifies key factors of successful development of new industrial products.

Research on Simulation Customers Participate Type in Open Innovation

2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 2054-2057
Author(s):  
Jun Hui He
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
New Products ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Dynamic Evolution ◽  
Evolution Simulation ◽  
High Degree

This paper proposed customers to participate typology based on three dimensions, which are the customers’ autonomy in the process, the nature of the firm‐customer collaboration, and the stage of the innovation process. Then proposed customers to participate in the type of open innovation framework. Through the static comparative and dynamic evolution simulation found: customers tend to be open to participate in the development of new products pre innovation, the tendency to begin to choose the low participation of degrees of freedom, and ultimately tend to opt for a high degree of freedom to participate.

scholarly journals AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY AND IMPLEMENTS DESIGN PROCESS: GUIDELINES FOR SMALL AND MID-SIZED BUSINESSES

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 206-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato L. Bergamo ◽  
Leonardo N. Romano
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
New Products ◽  
Machine Design ◽  
Reference Models ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
Modeling Formalism

ABSTRACT This study aims at presenting the process of machine design and agricultural implements by means of a reference model, formulated with the purpose of explaining the development activities of new products, serving as a guideline to coach human resources and to assist in formalizing the process in small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), i.e. up to 500 employees. The methodology used included the process modeling, carried out from case studies in the SMB, and the study of reference models in literature. The modeling formalism used was based on the IDEF0 standard, which identifies the dimensions required for the model detailing: input information; activities; tasks; knowledge domains; mechanisms; controls and information produced. These dimensions were organized in spreadsheets and graphs. As a result, a reference model with 27 activities and 71 tasks was obtained, distributed over four phases of the design process. The evaluation of the model was carried out by the companies participating in the case studies and by experts, who concluded that the model explains the actions needed to develop new products in SMB.

STRATEGIC AND OPERATIVE LEVEL FRONT-END INNOVATION ACTIVITIES — INTEGRATION PERSPECTIVE

2007 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 433-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
JARNO POSKELA
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Front End ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Critical Phase ◽  
Strategy Making ◽  
Target Markets

The front-end phase is in the literature generally regarded as the most critical phase of the innovation process. Front-end management has a strategic nature since important decisions related e.g. to target markets and the main functionalities of products are done in the front-end phase. This article examines how the integration of strategic and operative level front-end activities is perceived by top managers in the product innovation context. The findings indicate that companies exploit different strategy-making processes, and that each strategy-making mode is prone to particular integration challenges. The results show that the effectiveness of integration of strategic and operative level front-end activities is dependent on the level of concreteness of the defined business strategies, the amount of business-minded decision making, and the balance between control and creativity.

scholarly journals Innovation and value in pre-commercial procurement

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Brogaard
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Commitment

Governments increasingly use novel forms of public procurement to stimulate innovation in public service delivery. A notable example is pre-commercial procurement. Launched by the European Commission a decade ago, pre-commercial procurement encourages research and development of new solutions for the public sector. However, limited theoretical and empirical studies have made it difficult to assess and improve use of the model to foster public innovation. Based on two pre-commercial procurement projects in Denmark, the article aims to complete the first systematic and theory-based evaluation of national experiences. The evaluation shows that sufficient resources, participant and management commitment, and focused management of the collaborative process contributed to successful development and testing of a new solution in one of the projects. Meanwhile, technical obstacles in developing a prototype resulted in termination of the other project. In this case, the pre-commercial procurement model cannot accommodate significant changes to the agreed solution during the innovation process.

scholarly journals The Development of Wine Tourism in Atypical Wine Regions: the Challenge of Multistakeholder Cooperation?

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Katleen Vos
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Exact Science ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Wine Tourism ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Development And Management

In the last decades, worldwide wine tourism has been steadily progressing and has grown substantially as a research object. Several academic papers treat strategies for development and management of wine tourism. This paper aims to describe recent trends in wine tourism, and more specifi­cally, the development of wine tourism in atypical wine regions. Therefore, it synthesises the key findings from the second UNWTO wine tourism conference. Furthermore, it argues that the successful development of wine tourism is not an exact science. Emerging wine destinations often have many dif­ficulties to overcome. Using literature review and case studies, it explores the possibilities to create successful destinations and highlights the impor­tance of co-operation, co-creation within networks and creativity to create value for wine tourism destinations.

Promoting Success in the Introduction of Health Information Systems

2012 ◽  
pp. 631-641
Author(s):  
Paulo Teixeira ◽  
Patrícia Leite Brandão ◽  
Álvaro Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Number Of Publications

The significant number of publications describing unsuccessful cases in the introduction of health information systems makes it advisable to analyze the factors that may be contributing to such failures. However, the very notion of success is not equally assumed in all publications. Based in a literature review, the authors argue that the introduction of systems must be based in an eclectic combination of knowledge fields, adopting methodologies that strengthen the role of organizational culture and human resources in this project, as a whole. On the other hand, the authors argue that the introduction of systems should be oriented by a previously defined matrix of factors, against which the success can be measured.

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