...Vimal Kumar; Elizabeth A. Cudney; Ankesh Mittal; Ajay Jha; Neeraj Yadav; Ali Al Owad Purpose New product development (NPD) is necessary for business sustenance and customer satisfaction. Six Sigma and Design for Lean Six Sigma (DLSS) efficiently employ the repetitive stages for NPD, leading...

... managers, engineers and other technical staff is presented. Nuno Costa can be contacted at: nuno.costa@estsetubal.ips.pt 05 02 2019 18 03 2019 27 04 2019 15 06 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Product...

...). Nevertheless, Bouchikhi and Kimberly (2001) argued that firms need to innovate to survive, otherwise they will “die.” Christopher Freeman (1982) , cited in Trott (2005) , wrote “[…] not to innovate is to die.” Innovation Value creation Quality Portugal Product development According...

...Mokh Suef; Suparno Suparno; Moses Laksono Singgih Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology to use complaints, claims and company innovation as an internal data source of customer needs for product development using the quality function deployment (QFD)-Kano approach instead...

... and methodologies dealing with needs in product development. The literature review included books found in university libraries and research papers found in the scopus database. As stated by Gebauer et al. (2011) , customer needs seem to evolve into a complex system involving a high level...

...Lars Witell; Martin Löfgren; Anders Gustafsson; Helmi Ben Rejeb; Vincent Boly; Laure Morel‐Guimaraes Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a new decision‐aided tool for selecting customer needs during the new product development process. Design/methodology/approach The study started...

... ISO 9000 series Quality function deployment Quality systems Product development The contribution of QFD to new product development activities has been pointed out by several authors in recent years. Since its creation in the 1960 s, numerous successful applications have been reported...

...Hongyi Sun; Yangyang Zhao; Hon Keung Yau Purpose The speed of new product development (NPD) has been a key factor in a firm's degree of competitiveness. The tools and philosophy of quality management have been widely used to improve and control product quality. However, there is a lack...

... influenced by human kansei with respect to the Management of Technology (MOT) and will be of interest to those involved in that field. Shin'ya Nagasawa can be contacted at: nagasawa@waseda.jp © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Product development General management Critical...

...Jens J. Dahlgaard; Mitsuo Nagamachi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss Kansei engineering (KE), which uses a unique ergonomic technology to produce a new product which fits to consumers' feelings and demands. It is a consumer‐oriented product development method...

... their market position. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Product development Total quality management Customer satisfaction Design and development After being underestimated for many years, methodologies that help designers to take into account emotional variables are now viewed...

... studies that report and discuss the relationship between QFD and innovation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Innovation Product innovation Product development Quality function deployment The ability to bring new products to market quickly is fundamental to any successful...

...Ming‐Li Shiu; Jui‐Chin Jiang; Mao‐Hsiung Tu Purpose This paper attempts to renew quality function deployment (QFD) in a comprehensive manner and develop a more process‐oriented approach to implement QFD, in order to effectively support the corporate new product development (NPD) cycle and achieve...

...Jui‐Chin Jiang; Ming‐Li Shiu; Mao‐Hsiung Tu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an overall review of quality function deployment (QFD) in the past nearly 30 years; to clarify widespread misperceptions about QFD; to adapt its use to the product development model of contract...

...K. Narasimhan Nanda , V. . Quality Management System Handbook for Product Development Companies . CRC Press , 2005 . 352 pp. , ISBN: 1‐57444‐352‐6   $79.95 (hardback) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Quality management Product development...

..., the same cannot be said for product development. Design/methodology/approach We adopted a case study approach in this study, which has been found to be the more suitable approach for exploratory research. Semi‐structured interviews ranging from half an hour to one and a half hours were conducted...