...Richard Bonaccorsi; Kalle Lyytinen Purpose Incumbent organizations are being challenged to carry out the transformative change induced by digital transformation. They often address the challenge by creating diverse, cross-functional teams called breakthrough teams to imagine, plan and execute...

...Usha Lenka; Minisha Gupta Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework exploring innovation process in research and development units of organizations. Research and development (R&D) teams of pharmaceutical firms operating in India were the unit of analysis. Design...

...Bettina Büchel; Levi Nieminen; Heidi Armbruster‐Domeyer; Daniel Denison Purpose Team‐based innovation requires a balance of creative and pragmatic processes both within teams and between teams and their organizational stakeholders. However, prior research has focused primarily on the internal team...

...Tomas Hellström; Merle Jacob; Ulf Malmquist This paper presents a case study describing the development of an innovation team in a large Swedish telecom company, the aim of which is to find, test and promote new product and service concepts. Drawing on experience from the team’s first year...

...Ali E. Akgün; Gary S. Lynn Speed‐to‐market is cited as being vital in today’s competitive, uncertain and turbulent environments. To help companies in their quest for speed in new product development, many tools and techniques have been developed. One of the these techniques – team improvisation...

... strategic issues involved in managing the FFE are identified and managerial recommendations are advanced. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Fuzzy logics New product development Teams Project management Innovation Answers to these and other questions help organizations to quickly and effectively...

... efforts. Building upon uncertainty theory, we define front‐end fuzziness in terms of environmental uncertainties. Front‐end fuzziness has consequences for a project’s team vision. It reduces the team’s sense of shared purpose and causes unclear project targets and priorities. Describes how foundation...

...Gloria Barczak; David Wilemon The increasing use of cross‐functional teams for new product development (NPD) belies the difficulty managers face in creating teams that are truly effective. Effectiveness depends, in part, on having members who are satisfied with their team and their project...