... Innovation Absorptive capacity Product development Knowledge complementarity To compete in today’s global marketplace, firms must “innovate or die” (Drucker, 1999). These famous words originally attributed to Peter Drucker are as poignant now as when they were first introduced to the world during...

...Milind Shrikant Kirkire; Santosh B. Rane; Gayatri Jayant Abhyankar Purpose The purpose of this paper model and prioritizes barriers to product development in medical device manufacturing industries using an integrated “structural equation modelling” (SEM) and “fuzzy technique for order performance...

.... Originality/value The unique contribution of this modeling approach is articulated through analyzing product architecture, with a view to interpreting the component interfaces in a more productive way. This formulation triggers the decision‐making process in complex product development processes...

...Anand Gurumurthy; Rambabu Kodali Purpose According to the literature, on an average, it takes around three to four years to develop a new product and about 50 percent of the costs incurred in product development (PD) tend to be spent on waste that occurs during the PD process. Hence, organizations...

...Mustafa M. Rashid; Hossam Ismail Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a generic method and tool for assessing the reliability and robustness of the product development process. Design/methodology/approach By extending the integrated definition for function modelling (IDEF0)‐based...