This paper reports the results of a study that evaluated the economic risk inherent in market variability and the uncertainty of developing weight estimates for an advanced space launch vehicle program. The purpose of this study was to determine the sensitivity of a business case for advanced...

In the first section, a firm with two servers must decide how to dynamically route arriving customers and allocate servers to two separate queues. The servers may work together or separately, and we provide insights into how the firm should optimally route customers and assign servers to queues....

Firms collaborate to develop and deliver new products. These collaborations vary in terms of the similarity of the competencies that partnering firms bring to the alliance. In same-function alliances, partnering firms have similar competencies, whereas in cross-function alliances, partners have...

Changes in the global economy and technological advances are stimulating an increasing geographic distribution of new product design and development efforts. For large organizations that design and develop complex products, this geographic distribution has added a new layer of complexity to...

Product innovation has transformed the minds of business people because of its ability to increase productivity. Other than increased productivity it also allows companies to extend the range of the available products to consumers as well as lowering the prices consumers have to pay. Product...

This item is the visual presented at the conference From Design to Retail, Introducing Technology into the Textiles Supply Chain, held at Manchester Conference Centre on Wednesday 22nd October 2008.

New product development is central to many firms’ future success. Not only as a means to continue to maintain their piece of the market, but product development can also be a strategic means for a company to diversify, and/or alter focus to adapt to changing market conditions. Most of the...

This paper reviews some aspects of the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in responding to innovation and technological change when undertaking new product development. Focusing on the management of technology, it will consider the role of interaction and collective...

This paper traces the new product development of Hyundai MotorCompany, Korea, which, since its foundation in 1967, has maintained theself reliance strategy, particularly in new product development. Businessstrategy of Hyundai contrasts sharply with other auto makers in developingcountries as...

With the rise of the internet and mobile telephony, many agree that Mobile-Business is the logical next step in the Electronic-Business revolution. Investigation of mobile electronic marketing is essential to ensure both consumers and organisations gain true value from the adoption and...