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- New product innovation Case Study: Maytag Corporation
- Learn best practices in product innovation from Maytag, a top-performing corporation. Since 1994 Maytag Corporation has made significant annual capital investments that have led directly to demonstrable and superior product innovations in its strongest brands. Superior product performance reinforces brand positioning; product and brand positioning drive average...
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- Are Your Products Open or Closed? How to Respond to the New Openness
- Companies in many industries are struggling to determine how best to deal with the power that social computing gives their customers as an open forum to share how they feel about products with millions of fellow consumers. This newfound power in the hands of customers is creating an openness of...
- Webcasts 2008-02-27
- A Timely product innovation
- An innovation is disruptive when it impacts the hegemony of the market-leading company, companies, or prevailing technologies for a specific market. Among the many examples of disruptive products are digital photography technologies, which replaced photographic film. An understanding of the economics of the product innovation in the context of the...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Strategic Renewal Via Generational product innovation: The Impact Of Market Concentration On Firms
- Generational product innovation GPI is an important but understudied form of strategic renewal strategy. The limited discussion of GPI in the organizational strategy literature argues that firms benefit from internally-driven GPI strategies, such as time-based pacing and serendipitous timing. While such internally-driven strategies may predominate when firms face diffuse competition,...
- White papers 2007-03-28
- Vertical Integration And product innovation
- The authors study vertical integration and product innovation as interdependent strategic choices of vertically related firms. Product differentiation in the downstream market is considered as a strategic device of downstream firms facing a threat of vertical integration and market foreclosure by an upstream monopolist. The main finding is that, although...
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Hidden Costs Of Technological Innovation: Effects Of product innovation
- The management of innovation literature assumes that product innovation, i.e., commercialized invention, is always beneficial for firm performance and survival. In contrast, organizational ecology proposes that innovation may have negative consequences for innovating firms. In this paper, the author argues that the positive and negative consequences of innovation are not...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Decomposing Productivity Growth In The U.S. Computer Industry
- This paper examines the sources of the productivity growth in the U.S. computer industry from 1978 to 1999. It estimates a joint production model of output quantity and quality that distinguishes two types of technological changes: process and product innovations. Based on the estimation results, Total Factor Productivity TFP growth...
- White papers 2005-12-05
- Learning, product innovation And Firm Heterogeneity In Tanzania
- Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming, this paper sheds light on the various sources as of firm learning, investment and collaboration and their relative importance for product innovation. The results indicate that larger and foreign owned firms invest...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- High Tech Manufacturing: What Does Outsourcing Mean to Your Supply Chain?
- In the world of high-tech manufacturing, the last several years have presented some challenging conditions for businesses to operate. On one extreme was the "Boom" of the late '90s and, on the other, the economic downturn that began with the crash of the technology and Internet sectors. The high-tech boom...
- White papers 2005-06-15
- Process and product innovation: A Differential Game - Approach to Product Life Cycle
- This paper investigates the timing of adoption of product and process innovation by using a differential game in which firms may invest in both activities. The paper considers horizontal product innovation that reduces product substitutability, and process innovation that reduces marginal cost. It demonstrates that the incentive for cost-reducing investment...
- White papers 2005-01-11
- Strategy-Focused product innovation With Product Scorecard And product innovation Scorecard
- This paper shows how strategy-focused product innovation can be done with a product scorecard and a product innovation scorecard. A product scorecard is a performance measurement system that allows the product managers to view the product performances from several perspectives simultaneously. A product innovation scorecard is a performance measurement system...
- White papers 2004-08-11
- Effects Of Entry Mode And Incumbency Status On Firm product innovation
- Firms entering an industry de novo (start-up) and firms entering de alio diversification away from another industry differ in the initial entry conditions. This paper proposes that the differences in resource endowment, previous experience, and structural flexibility between de novo and de alio firms at the time of entry have...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- 4 Steps to Successful product innovation: The Power Planning System
- Research paper from the PDMA (Product Development & Management Association) has shown that on average, 4 out of every 5 new products entering development will fail. Fortunately there is a path to consistently successful innovation. This paper will provide an overview of a practical system for product innovation rooted in...
- White papers 2004-07-02
- High-Tech Manufacturing: What Does Outsourcing Mean to Your Supply Chain?
- The high-tech boom of the ?90s created huge demand and leaps in product innovation. While spending was on the rise, technology advancements increased customer expectations for product sophistication and the Internet expanded the channels available to customers. All of this forced Original Equipment Manufacturers OEMs to be more responsive: to...
- White papers 2003-10-31
- product innovation And Imperfect Competition In The Italian Fruit-Drink Industry
- In this paper, the case of the Italian fruit-drink industry is presented to discuss the strategic issues of product-innovation in imperfectly competitive markets. In particular, three main topics are addressed: the incentives to the adoption of innovation-based strategies, R&D investments in imperfectly competitive markets and the role of vertical coordination....
- White papers 2003-08-27
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- Community outreach through corporate social responsibility: corporate social responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of their stakeholders and society at large. The Young Expedition Project may be one way for companies to achieve this
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CORPORATE social responsibility CSR is a concept that frequently overlaps with similar approaches such as corporate sustainability, corporate sustainable development, corporate responsibility, and corporate citizenship. While CSR does not have a universal definition, many see it as the private sector's way of integrating the economic, social,...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Breast Augmentation Recovery Halter Wins Praise: JustGotEm.com's Recovery Halter Comfortably Holds Breasts Up to Size "G"
- JustGotEm.com , the world's only breast augmentation recovery website specializing in recovery gift boxes wins praise for the re-design of their wildly popular Recovery Halter . "We had a great product, but we made it better," states Milan Skrecek, creator of the breast augmentation recovery gift box...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Cenzic Continues to Receive Industry Acclaim With Two More Awards
- Cenzic Inc., the leading provider of application security vulnerability assessmentand risk management solutions, today announced the company's continuedrecognition for their innovative solutions. At the heels of the recentfive star rating and Best Buy award from SC Magazine, the company wasrecognized as a winner in two categories by the...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Nortel Supplier Forum Honors Top Performers
- Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(NYSE: NT) honored its top performing suppliers and top supplier representatives for 2007 at the 12th annual Nortel Supplier Forum in Richardson, Texas. "Nortel is focused on our customers and we are increasing quality, speed and productivity in our supply chain to create a competitive advantage," said Joe...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Bombardier Aerospace Releases Annual Aircraft Market Forecasts
- Today, Bombardier Aerospace released its annual aircraft market forecasts for the business and commercial aircraft markets. "As we transition to a more international customer base that features less emphasis on the U.S., as well as a structural shift towards larger and more cost-effective aircraft, Bombardier's key product families - business...
- Articles 2008-05-07
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