scholarly journals Product Innovation and Educational Diversity in Top and Middle Management Teams

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 272-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torben Schubert ◽  
Sam Tavassoli
2021 ◽  
pp. 239496432110118
Author(s):  
Miguel Mendes ◽  
Martijn F. Rademakers

This article shares research findings from the healthcare equipment manufacturing industry on how product management teams can enhance their value-based innovation processes. Value-based healthcare (VBHC) has transformed healthcare systems worldwide by shifting their focus towards patient-centred value creation. The VBHC concept has also inspired medical equipment manufacturers that seek to enable healthcare providers to realize their VBHC ambitions. In this article, we focus on the development of hybrid solutions for operating rooms in the context of VBHC. Hybrid operating rooms (HORs) add real-time medical imaging to surgical and interventional treatment of patients. This combination is quite challenging to realize, not just in terms of technology but also organizationally. Adjusting technology to the requirements of multiple clinical stakeholders drives complexity to unprecedented heights. How can product strategists manage this multi-stakeholder complexity? Through in-depth case research, we found that adopting a clear VBHC vision is key for product management teams designing HOR innovations. A VBHC vision allows multiple teams to align and effectively collaborate with the goal of enhancing patient care. In addition, we found that integrating inside-out and outside-in perspectives on product innovation helps medical equipment manufacturers produce VBHC-compatible innovations and foster collaboration between clinicians working in multipurpose rooms such as HORs.


2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha C. Gottfredson ◽  
Abigail T. Panter ◽  
Charles E. Daye ◽  
Walter A. Allen ◽  
Linda F. Wightman ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Paolo FESTA ◽  
Tommaso CORA ◽  
Lucilla FAZIO

Is it possible to transform stone into a technological and innovative device? The meeting with one of the main stone transformers in Europe produced the intention of a disruptive operation that could affect the strategy of the whole company. A contagious singularity. By intertwining LEAN methodologies and the human-centric approach of design thinking, we mapped the value creation in the company activating a dialogue with the workers and the management, listening to people, asking for ambitions, discovering problems and the potential of production. This qualitative and quantitative analysis conducted with a multidisciplinary approach by designers, architects and marketing strategists allowed us to define a new method. We used it to design a platform that could let all the players express their potential to the maximum. This is how the group's research laboratory was born, with the aim of promoting the relationship between humans and stone through product innovation. With this goal, we coordinated the new team, developing technologies that would allow creating a more direct relationship between man and surface, making the stone reactive. The result was the first responsive kitchen ever.


2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Indarti ◽  
Theo Postma

Innovative companies generally establish linkages with other actors and access external knowledge in order to benefit from the dynamic effects of interactive processes. Using data from 198 furniture and software firms in Indonesia, this study shows that the quality of interaction (i.e. multiplexity) as indicated by the depth of knowledge absorbed from various external parties and intensity of interaction (i.e., tie intensity) are better predictors of product innovation than the diversity of interaction.


Author(s):  
Do Vu Phuong Anh

This research presents the results of applying the theory of competence framework to evaluate the current competence of middle management in enterprises, in the case study of DOJI Gemstone Jewelry Group (DOJI Group). By using in-depth interviews and survey through questionnaires, the research results show that the middle management level at DOJI Group has satisfied relatively well the most competencies of the professional competence group, executive management competence as well as personal development competence. However, some of the competencies that need to be further improved include time management, training and leadership competence, innovation and learning competence. The solutions given are for reference by DOJI Group and other private enterprises in Vietnam in the assessment and development of middle management level.


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