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 …

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 …

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 …

Investments in design play a potentially significant role in new product development (NPD) although there is little … unanimity on the most appropriate or effective design strategy. Previous case-study based studies have identified three … alternative design strategies for NPD: design used as a functional specialism, design used as part of a multi-functional team and …

The purpose of this article is to investigate the functions of design process outputs (such as design briefs, scale … system reveals that the interpretative flexibility of design process outputs as boundary objects helps in creating mutual …. The results confirm that a design process output such as a scale model can be purposefully created to serve as a boundary …

Investments in design play a potentially significant role in new product development (NPD) although there is little … unanimity on the most appropriate or effective design strategy. Previous case-study based studies have identified three … alternative design strategies for NPD: design used as a functional specialism, design used as part of a multi-functional team and …

Agent Based Models (ABM) due to lack of experience with visual design. This paper provides ABM visualization design … guidelines in order to improve visual design with ABM toolkits. These guidelines will assist the modeler in creating clear and … categorization serves as a starting point in the creation of an ABM visualization. We go on to present well-known design techniques …

Although a few studies have investigated the communication behaviour of construction professionals this research … interaction process analysis (IPA) method, both task and relational interaction were recorded and a model of group communication …