Managing Complex Technology Innovation

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Szajnfarber ◽  
Annalisa L. Weigel
Keyword(s):  
Product Innovation ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Complex Product ◽  
Development Stages ◽  
Engineering Organizations ◽  
Monotonically Increasing Function ◽  
Complex Technology ◽  
Increasing Function ◽  
Longitudinal Case Studies

R&D management practices in engineering organizations typically conceptualize complex product innovation as a Stage-Gate process whereby novel concepts are matured through successions of development stages and progressively winnowed down at each sequential gate. This view assumes that maturity is a monotonically increasing function of the technology, and that the active process of winnowing is administrative decisions. This paper tests those assumptions using detailed evidence from six longitudinal case studies of technology innovation at NASA.

Study on Industry Manufacturing with BN-Based Risk Assessment on the Technology Innovation of the Complex Product System

2013 ◽  
Vol 675 ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Nai Ping Song ◽  
Xian Bin Wu ◽  
Wei Cong Zhang ◽  
Ai Qin Huang
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Network ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Product System ◽  
Complex Product ◽  
Product Systems ◽  
Complex Product Systems ◽  
High Investment ◽  
Complex Technology ◽  
Research Period

With the rapid development of information technology and the accelerated pace of global economic integration, Industry Manufacturing of complex product systems (CoPS, Complex Product System) has become the “engine” for the country's technological progress and economic development. In order to ensure the success of industry product innovation, it is necessary to evaluate the risks in the process of innovation due to the high investment, complex technology, long research period, and high cost. This paper aims to explore the innovation risks by means of Bayesian network (BN, Bayesian Network) system.

The Role of Strategic Innovation in the Sustainability of Healthcare Service Businesses in Zimbabwe: The Case of PSMI Limited

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-140
Author(s):  
Frederick Farai Muchena ◽  
Osaro Aigbogun
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Process Innovation ◽  
Strategic Innovation ◽  
Unit Increase ◽  
Service Businesses

This study evaluates the extent to which product, technology, service, and process innovations influence the sustainability of Healthcare service businesses. The context of the study is Premier Service Medical Investments (PSMI) Limited, Zimbabwe. A quantitative research, with a deductive approach was conducted using a self-administered structured questionnaire which was anchored on a 7-point Likert scale for gathering survey primary data. A purposively recruited sample of 350 employees with leadership responsibilities, were drawn from executive, middle management and supervisory levels. After testing and validating the reliability and validity of the questionnaire measures, a logistic regression was run to test the research hypotheses. The results reveal the following: Service Innovation had a positive relationship with Sustainability, indicating that a unit increase in Service Innovation has an effect of a 256% increase in odds of Sustainability. Product Innovation had a negative relationship with Sustainability, indicating that a unit increase in Product Innovation has an effect of a 13% decrease in odds of Sustainability. Technology Innovation had a positive relationship with Sustainability, indicating that a unit increase in Technology Innovation has an effect of a 25% increase in odds of Sustainability. Process Innovation had a positive relationship with Sustainability, indicating that a unit increase in Process Innovation has an effect of a 117% increase in odds of Sustainability. Moreover, using the linear regression method, the variable Service Innovation indicated that with an additional service, Sustainability increases by 27.1%. Technology Innovation showed that with an additional technology, sustainability increases by 4.3%. Process Innovation indicated that with an additional process, Sustainability increases by 36.6%. From the results, using the both the logistic and linear regression models, the findings indicate that strategic innovation significantly influences sustainability of healthcare services business in Zimbabwe. Arising from this research, sustainability of healthcare care business is seen to be triggered and driven by all 4 types of innovation evaluated in this research, namely: service, process, product and technology. It is recommended that these innovation dimensions be implemented within a defined internal environment supported by an innovation hub. Keywords: Sustainability, Strategic Innovation, Logistic Regression, Linear Regression, Process Innovation, Service Innovation, Product Innovation, Technology Innovation

Green Practices Implementation as Prerequisite to Sustain Firm Competitive Advantages

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-53
Author(s):  
Kardison Lumbanbatu ◽  
Vincent Didiek Wiet Aryanto
Keyword(s):  
Product Innovation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Green Management ◽  
Marketing Performance

Encompassing firms to apply green policy in a holistic management practices are strongly required in order to maintain competitive advantages and experience long-term marketing performance. This current empirical research is aimed to fill the lack of empirical findings and empirical studies on firm's innovative concept. Green-based product innovation, green management practices and green corporate image are presented as the antecedents and postulated as the sources of sustaining firm competitive advantages. A questionnaire-based survey was deployed to collect data from Large Scale Enterprises in Indonesia with Top Management, Operational and Marketing Managers served as respondents. 500 questionnaires were mailed and 388 were valid for further analysis. Data was analyzed by using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) via AMOS statistical software. Statistical findings demonstrated that green-based product innovation, green management practices and green corporate image significantly has a positive affect to sustain firm competitive advantages which is led to enhance long term marketing performance. However, green-based product innovation plays insignificant direct relationship on long term marketing performance. This study discusses some managerial implications for enterprises and recommendations on a basis of green implementation.

Extinction in the Pigeon after Continuous Reinforcement: Effect of Number of Reinforced Responses

1971 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurel Furumoto
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Food Pellet ◽  
Key Peck ◽  
Continuous Reinforcement ◽  
Gm Food ◽  
Free Operant ◽  
Time To Extinction ◽  
Monotonically Increasing Function ◽  
Increasing Functions ◽  
Increasing Function

Number of responses and time to extinction were measured after 3, 10, 1000, 3000, 5000, and 10,000 reinforced key-peck responses during conditioning. Each response was reinforced with a 045-gm. food pellet. The number of responses in extinction was a monotonically increasing function which became asymptotic beyond 1000 reinforced responses. Number of reinforced responses during conditioning significantly affected the number of responses in extinction ( p < .001) but not the time to extinction. The results support the findings of previous free-operant bar-press studies with rats. Free-operant animal studies of extinction after continuous reinforcement have consistently produced monotonically increasing functions and have typically employed relatively small amounts of reinforcement. Amount of reward may be an important parameter determining the shape of the extinction function in the free-operant studies.

Judgment of Temporal Duration of Stimulus Components in a Spatial Sequence

1973 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 619-623
Author(s):  
Suchoon S. Mo ◽  
Michael D. Blaszcszack ◽  
Kathleen Ward
Keyword(s):  
Stimulus Presentation ◽  
Temporal Duration ◽  
Monotonically Increasing Function ◽  
Increasing Function

Judgment of the duration of the stimulus components of tri-grams consisting of consonants was a monotonically increasing function of the letter positions in the sequence of left to right. This tendency was more clearly demonstrated when the frequency of the stimulus presentation exceeded the frequency of the presentation of the stimulus components.

Thermodynamic Performance of an Actual Thermo-Acoustic Refrigeration Micro-Cycle

2012 ◽  
Vol 614-615 ◽  
pp. 64-68
Author(s):  
Tuo Wang ◽  
Feng Wu ◽  
Jin Hua Fei ◽  
Ming Fang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Coefficient Of Performance ◽  
Pressure Amplitude ◽  
Cooling Load ◽  
Acoustic Effect ◽  
Thermodynamic Performance ◽  
Monotonically Increasing Function ◽  
Analytic Expressions ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Increasing Function

Thermo-acoustic refrigerator is a new type of engine, which is based on the thermo-acoustic effect. A new model which expresses as an ellipse in pressure-volume diagram is established to investigate the thermodynamic performance of an actual thermo-acoustic refrigeration micro-cycle. The demarcation points of endothermic processes and exothermic processes in the actual micro-cycle are found. The analytic expressions of the dimensionless cooling load and the coefficient of performance (COP) are deduced. The relationship between the dimensionless cooling load and the COP are investigated by numerical examples. The results show that the dimensionless cooling load is a monotonically increasing function of the COP and the pressure amplitude.

Full-Spectrum k-Distribution Model for Radiation in Gas Based on Multi-Group Methods

2014 ◽  
Vol 1008-1009 ◽  
pp. 839-845
Author(s):  
Yue Zhou ◽  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Hai Yang Hu
Keyword(s):  
Narrow Band ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Distribution Model ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Distribution Method ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Group Methods ◽  
Monotonically Increasing Function ◽  
Homogeneous Media ◽  
Increasing Function

The k-distribution method applied in narrow band and wide band is extended to the full spectrum based on spectroscopic datebase HITEMP, educing the full-spectrum k-distribution model. Absorption coefficents in this model are reordered into a smooth,monotonically increasing function such that the intensity calculations are performed only once for each absorption coefficent value and the resulting computations are immensely more efficent.Accuracy of this model is examined for cases ranging from homogeneous one-dimensional carbon dioxide to inhomogeneous ones with simultaneous variations in temperature. Comparision with line-by-line calculations (LBL) and narrow-band k-distribution (NBK) method as well as wide-band k-distribution (WBK) method shows that the full-spectrum k-distribution model is exact for homogeneous media, although the errors are greater than the other two models. After dividing the absorption coefficients into several groups according to their temperature dependence, the full-spectrum k-distribution model achieves line-by-line accuracy for gases inhomogeneous in temperature, accompanied by lower computational expense as compared to NBK model or WBK model. It is worth noting that a new grouping scheme is provided in this paper.

Research and Implementation on Patent Knowledge Modeling Based on TRIZ

2015 ◽  
Vol 775 ◽  
pp. 479-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Qing Gao ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Shan Min Mi ◽  
Fang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
System Innovation ◽  
Knowledge Modeling ◽  
Knowledge Model ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Cotton Picker ◽  
Computer Aided

Patent is a key knowledge base for product innovation design. The current patent knowledge model and retrieving pattern can not supporting technology innovation sufficiently. TRIZ is a kind of innovation methodology based on patent analysis and there is a congenital relationship between them. Innovation design oriented patent model is researched based on inventive principles, standard solutions, effect and other TRIZ tools. As a Computer Aided Innovation system, Innovation Engine is introduced and developed. The effectiveness is proved by the conceptual design of Cotton Picker. The patent knowledge of cross domain is used successfully by Innovation Engine.

scholarly journals Studying Design Thinking as a Forthcoming Source to Innovation Speed

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2357-2366
Author(s):  
Christina Marie Mitcheltree ◽  
Halvor Holtskog ◽  
Geir Ringen
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Strategy Formulation ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The Road ◽  
Complex Technology ◽  
Product Realization ◽  
Innovation Processes

AbstractWith complex technology-intense industries follows an ever-increasing need for rapid innovation processes. Yet, innovation speed and the time from idea to product realization can vary and be unpredictable.Design Thinking (DT) is suggested as a key driver to impact the speed of product innovation within product development projects. To understand and aid the road from early ideas and concepts to value- added products, this paper will provide a literature study on how Design Thinking can facilitate improved product innovation performance through innovation speed.The paper seeks to develop an overview of new insight on DT applicability for improved product innovation capability. This is done by identifying components that comprise DT´s innovative ability and appropriateness to product development contexts beyond the early creative phases of product development.As DT emphasize on visualization and re-framing problems, it contributes to enhanced clarity, meaning and confidence in ideas and decisions. DT in this way may impact strategy formulation and speed up complex innovation processes by pre-experiencing future situations.

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