...Isabelle Dostaler Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study commissioned by an aircraft producer that is concerned about the efficiency of its new product development process and the high number of engineering changes generated during aerospace programs. Design...

... process in new product development (NPD). Design/methodology/approach The methodological approach adopted in this paper is a case study at an automaker in Brazil. Data were gathered from various sources, mostly participant observation and document analysis of two important NPD programmes. The risk...

...Robert Hunt; Catherine P. Killen; Paulo Augusto Cauchick Miguel Purpose Since the importance of implementing portfolio management is growing world‐wide, this paper seeks to report on case‐based research on portfolio management in a company that implemented it along with a new product development...

...Ping Kit Lam; Kwai Sang Chin; Kit Fai Pun Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the distribution of conflict over various NPD phases and identify the main sources of conflict and the five conflict handling styles in new product development (NPD) from the context of buyer‐supplier...

...Marc Antoni; Lars Nilsson‐Witell; Jens J. Dahlgaard Purpose Product development projects can be utilized to create not only new products or services but also competitively important capabilities on how to work with product development. The resulting capabilities can be, and often are, as important...