...Tino Woschke; Heiko Haase; Arndt Lautenschläger Purpose – This study deals with waste in New Product Development (NPD) processes of SMEs. The purpose of this paper is to reveal opportunities for SMEs to overcome resource constraints in their NPD process. Design/methodology/approach...

...Fiona Lettice; Norman Roth; Ingo Forstenlechner Purpose To present a measurement framework to capture the importance of the use of knowledge within the new product development (NPD) process. Design/methodology/approach A literature review enabled 200 product development measures to be compiled...

...James Moultrie; P. John Clarkson; David Probert Purpose The creation of well‐designed products is widely acknowledged as an important contributor to company success. In principle, an effective design process, as part of the wider new product development (NPD) process, should result in well...

...S.C. Morton; N.J. Brookes; P.K. Smart; C.J. Backhouse; N.D. Burns Management thinking has seen organisations group product development activities in a number of ways in the quest to improve performance. The implementation of multi‐disciplinary teams has been recognised as a means of rapidly...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1999 Engineering Integration Product development Quality function deployment Simultaneous engineering Concurrent engineering, sometimes referred to as simultaneous engineering, is best described as : a systematic approach to the integrated, concurrent design...

... Manufacturing Product development Taiwan Taiwan is a small country of 20 million people which has considerably more importance on the world manufacturing and trading stage than mere numbers would suggest. Recent figures show Taiwan to be the 13th largest trading economy in the world and it is the 12th...