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The importance of design for firms' competitiveness: a review of the literature
D'Ippolito, Beatrice - HAL - 2014
Scholars dedicated increasing attention towards appreciating how design has changed individuals' perception of new … management. By emphasising the importance of design for the definition of consumers' needs, the restructuring of firms … should address the analysis of: how design consumption can help better comprehend consumers' needs; what are the implications …
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Business model innovation: Creating value in times of change
Amit, Raphael; Zott, Christoph - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2010
We highlight business model innovation as a way for general managers and entrepreneurs to create and appropriate value, especially in times of economic change. Business model innovation, which involves designing a modified or new activity system, relies on recombining the existing resources of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008641474
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STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY E-COMMERCE FIRMS IN PORTUGAL:AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION
Torres, Pedro Marcelo; Lisboa, João Veríssimo; Yasin, … - In: Portuguese Journal of Management Studies XVI (2011) 1, pp. 43-66
A survey integrating different theoretical views of value creation was developed, then sent to Portuguese e-Commerce firms to assess the underlying dimensions and the most important characteristics of their e-Commerce strategies. The survey was sent to 188 firms in 2007 and repeated in 2010 to...
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Fabriquer ensemble la stratégie : D’une démarche de Prospective Stratégique à une plateforme « d’Open Strategizing » chez BASF Agro de 1995 à 2012
Parize-Suffrin, Claudya - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
opportunities for collaboration on a community way. They expanded together a design space or interact the knowledge and …-strategizing platform and for the operation of business between the actors which is used to reflect and devise all the new strategies. The … FPS is a management innovation which the configuration of implicit reference is a business ecosystem, and not just a …
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Design Management
Ľubica, Knošková - In: Studia Commercialia Bratislavensia 4 (2011) 13, pp. 91-101
The author analyzes in the paper the role of creativity and design in innovations, with emphasis on three theoretical … models linking creativity, design and innovations. The effective use of design is linked to design management. The concept of … design management relates to certain management activities, methods and skills that are required to optimize and manage …
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Product Differentiation and Commonality in Design: Balancing Revenue and Cost Drivers
Desai, Preyas; Kekre, Sunder; Radhakrishnan, Suresh; … - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 1, pp. 37-51
Product design decisions substantially affect the cost and revenue drivers. A design configuration with commonality can … lower manufacturing cost. However, such a design may hinder the ability to extract price premiums through product … design configurations: unique, premium-common, and basic-common. Our model considers two distinct segments of consumers. Some …
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Design Management
KnoÅ¡ková Ľubica - In: Studia Commercialia Bratislavensia 4 (2011) 13, pp. 91-101
The author analyzes in the paper the role of creativity and design in innovations, with emphasis on three theoretical … models linking creativity, design and innovations. The effective use of design is linked to design management. The concept of … design management relates to certain management activities, methods and skills that are required to optimize and manage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010534075
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Architectures of Control in Consumer Product Design
Lockton, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005
The idea of architectures of control is introduced through examples ranging from urban planning to digital rights management, and the intentions behind their use in consumer products are examined, with reference to case studies of printer cartridges and proposed ‘optimum lifetime products.’...
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Bringing product and consumer ecosystems to the strategic forefront
Dass, Mayukh; Kumar, Shivina - In: Business Horizons 57 (2014) 2, pp. 225-234
categories. In this article, we raise the call for a migration from a category-focused mindset to an ecosystem-focused strategic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744328
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Buyer Search Costs and Endogenous Product Design
Kuksov, Dmitri - In: Marketing Science 23 (2004) 4, pp. 490-499
in equilibrium. If firms cannot change product design, lower buyer search costs for price lead to increased price … competition. However, if product design is a decision variable, lower search costs for price may also lead to higher product …
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