It appears that many companies, including SMEs, are increasingly accepting the strategic importance of product lifecycle management (PLM) technologies. These companies now recognize that their most valuable asset is the wealth of information about their products, and that PLM forms the product...

Purpose – Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings –...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe the way participants in the hobby of gourmet cooking in the USA manage culinary information in their homes. Design/methodology/approach – The study utilizes domain analysis and serious leisure as a conceptual framework and employs an ethnographic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolution of “product‐service” (P‐S) strategies in the aerospace sector. Despite the widespread perception that aerospace organisations are advanced in terms of P‐S integration, little is known about the realities of P‐S...

Purpose – To explain “product lifecycle management”. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer. Findings – According to CIMdata, the overall PLM market is now worth around $17 billion, with nearly two thirds of this spend being on the primary...

Purpose – This paper aims to capture and manage the product lifecycle data for consumer products, especially data that occur in distribution, usage, maintenance and end‐of‐life stages, and to use them to provide information and knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – A lifecycle...

Posits that developing breakthroughs is much more costly and risky than introducing simple product line extensions. Therefore, breakthroughs need to be managed differently. After developing a model to manage breakthroughs, generates a series of hypotheses and tests them against the information...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe a product innovation and management approach that is in use by one small enterprise that may be of value to others. Design/methodology/approach – The case describes an approach to new product development and management. The organization's original name...

Most existing product innovation‐decision models view decision making from a very cognitive perspective in that they presume that decision to adopt a new product is preceded by steps that parallel product information procurement and evaluation. Argues that such an approach is unnecessarily...