This paper presents a literature review discussing empirical as well as conceptual papersconcerning the CTO – the Chief Technology Officer – his tasks, responsibilitiesand authority and his relations with other corporate functions. It further presents firstresults of a CTO survey conducted...

is explored. Our conceptual model is based on the information-processing perspective. A structualequation model was fitted to data from 497 NPD projects from Japanese mechanical and electricalengineering firms to test the proposed model.The empirical analysis found support for all hypotheses...

-When organizing international market introductions multinational companies facecoordination problems between the leading central organizational unit and local productmanagement. Based on the assumption that international market introductions are initiatedand managed by a central unit we examine...

During recent years the management of Intellectual Property (IP) underwent major changes. IP management systems became increasingly complex nowadays actively handling an integrated mix of intellectual assets rather than just “administrating” patents or trademarks as single, independently...

In this paper we report on the results of an interview research about new product development (NPD) processes and planning in 15 Japanese mechanical and electrical engineering companies. We asked the companies to describe one successful and one less successful project. All in all, we collected...

In this paper we explore how knowledge brokers – specialised design and engineeringcompanies offering services to clients in diverse industries – use analogies for productdevelopment. Our research is based on interviews with project leaders of 13 knowledgebrokering companies. The interviews...

The use of the internet for business purposes and among consumers is spreading at an impressive rate. Companies use it for a lot of different activities like, for example, marketing, online shopping and customer service. However, the use of the internet for the purpose of innovation, to create...

Die vorliegende Untersuchung betrachtet die Zusammenarbeit mit dem lokalenProduktmanagement bei der internationalen Markteinführung von neuen Produkten.Ausgehend von der Feststellung, dass die internationale Markteinführung von neuenProdukten zunehmend standardisiert und zentralisiert...

The majority of service providers have recognized the need to develop innovative services thatmeet sophisticated customer needs on time. Because of structural changes in the market, risingcosts and shorter lifecycles of services and technologies this has become a more demanding taskthan ever...

Manufacturers usually benefit by dividing their innovation processes into distinct phases inorder to ensure that the development activities are performed efficiently in an appropriatesequence [1]. Users usually do not apply such structured processes. They follow a moreintuition-driven approach....