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GENERIC MODEL OF THE EARLY PHASES OF AN INNOVATION PROCESS REGARDING DIFFERENT DEGREES OF PRODUCT NOVELTY
Orawski, Robert; Krollmann, Jan; Mörtl, Markus; Lindemann, Udo
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Year:
2011
Editor:
Culley, S.J.; Hicks, B.J.; McAloone, T.C.; Howard, T.J. & Clarkson, P.J.
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Series:
ICED
Section:
Design Processes
Page(s):
57-68
Abstract:
Innovation processes are developed for various reasons, e.g. formalization, communication or controlling of development activities. There is a big variety of innovation processes and especially for its early phases to be found in literature directly correlating with the amount of different reasons for creating a new model. With the increasing number of models, the main benefit of formalization is obsolete: a comparative description how product design is carried out in a company. This papers deals with the early phases, the product planning and conceptual design of the innovation process. The literature lacks an overview of a generic model of the early phases. In order to deal with different degrees of product novelty, there need to be a flexible model in which a product planer is able to adjust his or her project of a new product flexibly depending on the determined degree of product revision. Therefore, the authors propose a merged model from a state of the art literature review with detailed income and outcome needed for each phase of the early planning process. It provides the opportunity to opt for three different degrees of product novelty.
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