The working paper reports characteristics and problems of product development activities in the Japanese mobile phone industry.More than 15 mobile phone manufacturers have competed furiously in the domestic market where Japanese specific protocol is dominant.In order to respond to their users...

A product development project can be regarded as a bundle of problem-solving cycles by which an organization tries to construct a "cause map" for a future value-creation (i.e., production-consumption) process. Effective patterns of product development, in this context, means a set of...

This paper reports the result of a questionnaire survey conducted by the authors in 1997. About 200 responses described patterns of product development routines, organizational patterns, performance, and product-market characteristics for a recently completed project that the company recognized...