... 30 30 3 100 Marco Leite can be contacted at: marcoleite@ist.utl.pt 13 04 2016 28 09 2016 20 10 2016 24 10 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Competences Decision making Product...

...Alan D. Smith Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide practitioners of management with a sense of how collaborative team integration processes and new product development (NPD) processes were required in order to be reasonably successful in the current economic recession. Design...

...Randhir Reghunath Pushpa; Mary Mathew Purpose This paper aims to describe a study of interactive and collaborative behaviours of software product development teams across horizontal, geographical and value chain boundaries. The objective is to understand the influence of boundary...

... manufacturing industries, presents new strategic management issues to be addressed in project management. Understanding the many issues associated with project team management and integration within new‐product development/new‐product manufacturability processes may ultimately decrease the cost and promote...

... integration Production engineering Product development The outer model trimming processes resulted in the loss of four manifest variables from the final model, as their loadings were < 0.55 (p≤0.01) and, as a result, had little in common with the remaining manifest variables. Cross...

... that influence the extent that CE teams are used when developing new products. Design/methodology/approach To test the model, 2,500 questionnaires were mailed to new product development (NPD) managers from the machinery, computer product, electrical equipment, and transportation equipment manufacturing...

...Todd A. Boyle; Uma Kumar; Vinod Kumar Purpose – This research aims to identify various organizational‐level factors influencing support for cross‐functional new product development (NPD) teams. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 2,500 questionnaires where mailed in 2003 to managers...

...Jan Kratzer; Roger Th.A.J. Leenders; Jo M.L. Van Engelen Multifunctional teams have become commonplace in new product development (NPD) endeavors. Knowledge on the functioning of such teams, however, remains little. In this article two major principles about how these teams function...

... goals; are empowered to make decisions within specific product or service goals; have earned value accountability; have financial responsibility for product development. Identification and management of risk is a key responsibility of each product IPT[ 5 ]. Managing risk must emphasize...