806 resultados para New Product Development
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Esta tesis se centra en la identificación y análisis de los factores que pueden favorecer o actuar como barreras del éxito de la implementación de la innovación y las relaciones entre sí, desde el enfoque de la interface marketing-ventas. El trabajo empírico se enmarca en el vacío de investigación existente en el campo del proceso de lanzamiento de nuevos productos en los mercados donde operan subsidiarias de empresas multinacionales de consumo masivo (FMCG). Las empresas FMCG son altamente dependientes de la innovación como proceso clave determinante del crecimiento competitivo de mediano y largo plazo. En un contexto de acortamiento del ciclo de vida de los productos, como resultado del desarrollo tecnológico y científico que impactan en el comportamiento de los consumidores, las empresas invierten un mayor nivel de recursos en el desarrollo de nuevos productos, reingeniería y programas de innovación (Mundra, Gulati y Gupta, 2013). Sin embargo, a pesar del aumento en la inversión, las tasas de éxito de la innovación reportadas son inferiores al 25% (Evanschitzky, Eisend, Calantone y Jiang, 2012). Aumentar las tasas de éxito de los proyectos de innovación es reconocida en la literatura como un elemento clave para la supervivencia y competitividad de las empresas, para ser superiores a su competencia y desarrollar nuevos modelos de negocios. A pesar de la existencia de estudios que intentan comprender el proceso de lanzamiento de nuevos productos, no se ha identificado un claro prototipo de gestión de la innovación (Gupta et al, 2007). Profundizando en los factores de éxito, los autores Keupp, Palmié y Gassman (2012) reconocen que la innovación exitosa no depende solamente de la estrategia de selección de los proyectos de innovación, sino también la forma en que los mismos son implementados (Klein and Sorra, 1996; Repenning, 2002; Keupp, Palmié y Gassmann, 2012). Al analizar la implementación de los proyectos de lanzamiento de nuevos productos al mercado, en empresas FMCG, dicho proceso es responsabilidad principalmente de las funciones de marketing y ventas a través de la comunicación con los consumidores y los clientes respectivamente (Ernst, Hoyer y Rubsaamen, 2010). Es decir que el éxito en la implementación de la innovación requiere la gestión efectiva de la relación inter-funcional entre marketing y ventas (Ernst, Hoyer y Rubsaamen, 2010; Hughes, Le Bon y Malshe, 2012). A pesar de la importancia de la integración entre marketing y ventas en la conceptualización e implementación de la innovación, este tema no ha sido estudiado en profundidad (Hughes, Le Bon y Malshe, 2012; Keupp, Palmié y Gassmann, 2012). En las empresas multinacionales, está demostrado que el desempeño de las subsidiarias determinan el éxito competitivo de la empresa a nivel global. El desafío de dichas subsidiarias es conjugar el desarrollo global de innovación y comunicación con las características locales de comportamiento del consumidor y el mercado. Por lo tanto, esta investigación empírica responde a la pregunta académica y de gestión acerca de cómo mejorar las tasas de éxito de lanzamiento de nuevos productos al mercado en subsidiarias de empresas de consumo masivo, desde la perspectiva de la relación entre marketing y ventas. En particular analiza cómo afectan la formalización de los procesos y los mecanismos de comunicación a la confianza interpersonal y a la efectividad de la interface marketing-ventas y dichos factores a su vez sobre la planificación integrada de la implementación de la innovación. La determinación de los factores o ítems que conforman cada uno de los constructos del proceso de ejecución de la innovación, se llevó a cabo a partir de una revisión exhaustiva del estado del arte de la literatura sobre las interfaces funcionales y el proceso de innovación. Posteriormente, los ítems seleccionados (más de 50 en total) fueron validados por referentes de marketing y ventas de Argentina y Uruguay a través de entrevistas en profundidad. A partir de los factores identificados se construyeron dos modelos teóricos: • (1) relativo a la influencia de las dimensiones de confianza interpersonal sobre la efectividad de las uniones inter-funcionales y como los mecanismos organizacionales, tales como la frecuencia y la calidad de la comunicación entre las áreas, afectan la confianza y la relación entre ellas; • (2) relativo a la dimensión planificación integrada de la implementación de la innovación, ya que durante el lanzamiento de nuevos productos al mercado, marketing y ventas utilizan procesos formales que facilitan la comunicación frecuente y efectiva, desarrollando confianza inter-personal que no solamente afecta la efectividad de su relación sino también el desarrollo de planes integrados entre ambas áreas. El estudio fue llevado a cabo en una empresa multinacional de consumo masivo que integra la lista Global 500 (Fortune, 2015), presente en todo el mundo con más de 25 marcas participantes en más de 15 categorías, implementando 150 proyectos de innovación en el último año. El grupo de subsidiarias en estudio fue reconocido a nivel mundial por su desempeño en crecimiento competitivo y su alta contribución al crecimiento total. El modelo analizado en esta tesis fue expandido al resto de América Latina, tratándose entonces de un caso ejemplar que representa una práctica de excelencia en la implementación de la innovación en subsidiarias de una empresa multinacional. La recolección de los datos fue llevado a cabo a través de un cuestionario estructurado y confidencial, enviado a la base de datos de todo el universo de directores y gerentes de marketing y ventas. El nivel de respuesta fue muy elevado (70%), logrando 152 casos válidos. El análisis de datos comprendió el análisis descriptivo de los mismos, estimación de fiabilidad y análisis factorial exploratorio a través del software SPSS v.20. El análisis factorial confirmatorio y el análisis de senderos para examinar las relaciones entre los factores se estudiaron mediante el software R (Package 2.15.1., R Core Team, 2012) (Fox, 2006). Finalmente se llevaron a cabo entrevistas en profundidad a gerentes de marketing y ventas de cada uno de los seis países con el fin de profundizar en los constructos y sus relaciones. Los resultados de los modelos demuestran que la frecuencia de comunicación impacta positivamente en la calidad de la misma, que a su vez afecta directamente la relación entre marketing y ventas. Adicionalmente, la calidad de la comunicación impacta sobre la confianza cognitiva, que a su vez se relaciona no solamente con la confianza afectiva sino también con la relación entre ambas áreas. Esto significa que para mejorar la implementación de la innovación, los gerentes deberían orientarse a reforzar la relación entre marketing y ventas facilitando la construcción de confianza interpersonal primero cognitiva y luego afectiva, incrementando la frecuencia de la comunicación que alimenta la calidad de la comunicación entre ambas áreas. A través del segundo modelo se demuestra que durante el lanzamiento de nuevos productos al mercado, marketing y ventas necesitan emplear procesos formales que faciliten la comunicación frecuente y efectiva. De esta forma se contrarresta el efecto negativo de la formalización sobre la planificación integrada entre ambas áreas. Adicionalmente, los gerentes de ambos departamentos deberían promover la construcción de confianza interpersonal, no solamente para mejorar la efectividad de la relación, sino también para desarrollar planes integrados de implementación de nuevos productos. Finalmente, se valida que la frecuencia de la comunicación, la confianza afectiva y la relación marketing-ventas, se relacionan positivamente con la planificación integrada en la implementación de la innovación. El estudio contribuye a la comprensión de los factores que las empresas pueden emplear para mejorar la relación inter-funcional entre marketing y ventas y la implementación de la innovación en empresas de consumo masivo. El aporte de esta investigación puede ser valorado de dos maneras, los aportes a la gestión y a la academia. Desde el punto de vista empresarial, provee a los líderes al frente de empresas de consumo masivo, del conocimiento sobre los factores que afectan la implementación de la innovación y en definitiva el éxito del negocio a mediano y largo plazo. Desde el punto de vista académico aporta al conocimiento del proceso de implementación de la innovación y en la efectividad de la interface marketing y ventas en un caso de buenas prácticas en el mercado de consumo masivo. A su vez incorpora por primera vez un estudio empírico en geografías emergentes capaces de recuperar el camino de crecimiento posterior a una profunda crisis económica a través de la exitosa implementación de la innovación en sus mercados. ABSTRACT This thesis is focused on the identification, analysis and relationship study of factors which may benefit or hinder the successful deployment of innovation, from a marketing-sales interface perspective. Considering the non-existent investigation dedicated to the study of new products launches into markets in which Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies’ subsidiaries operate, it is that this investigation has been carried out. FMCG companies rely on innovation as their key process for a competitive growth on a medium and long term basis. Nowadays, the life-cycle of products is getting shorter as a result of new technological and scientific development, having impact on consumer behavior, and therefore companies are forced to dedicating more resources to the development of new products, reengineering and innovation programs (Mundra, Gulati and Gupta, 2013). However, in spite of the investment increase, the innovation success rates have been reported to be lower than 25% (Evanschitzky, Eisend, Calantone y Jiang, 2012). Increasing success rates on innovation processes has been considered as a key element on the survival and competitiveness of companies, outperforming competitors and developing new business models. Despite new studies which try to comprehend the process of new products launch, a prototype of innovation management has not yet been identified (Gupta et al, 2007). Emphasizing on success factors, authors Keupp, Palmié and Gassman (2012) recognize that successful innovation does not solely depend on innovation processes’ selection strategy, but it is also based on the way in which these are implemented (Klein and Sorra, 1996; Repenning, 2002; Keupp, Palmié y Gassmann, 2012). While analyzing the implementation of projects for new products releases on massive consumption companies, the two departments in charge of taking this forward are marketing and sales, by focusing on communication strategies with consumers and clients respectively (Ernst, Hoyer y Rubsaamen, 2010). This means that having success on innovation implementation requires an effective management of inter-functional relationship among marketing and sales (Ernst, Hoyer y Rubsaamen, 2010; Hughes, Le Bon y Malshe, 2012). In spite of the importance on the integration between marketing and sales on the conceptualization and implementation of innovation, this subject has not been studied in depth (Hughes, Le Bon y Malshe, 2012; Keupp, Palmié y Gassmann, 2012). In multinational companies, previous research has confirmed that the performance of their subsidiaries determine the competitive success of the company on a global scale. The challenge of said subsidiaries is to conjugate the global innovation development and communication with the local consumer and market behavior. Therefore, this empirical study aims to respond to the academic and management question of how to improve the success rates of new product launches into MNE subsidiary’ markets, from a marketing-sales relationship perspective. Particularly, this investigation analyses how the formalization of products and communication mechanisms affect interpersonal trust and marketing-sales interface effectiveness and also on how these factors affect the overall planning of the implementation of innovation. The determination of which factors build the hypothesis of the innovation execution process was taken forward through an extensive research on the extant literature on functional interfaces and innovation processes. More than 50 items were selected which were in turn validated by marketing and sales referents on Uruguay and Argentina through in depth interviews. Based on the identified factors, two theoretical models were proposed: (1) Relative to the influence that interpersonal trust dimensions have on inter functional linkages effectiveness and how organizational mechanisms such as frequency and quality of communication between departments affect trust and their relationship. (2) Relative to the integrated planning and innovation implementation dimensions. Marketing and sales department use formal process thus allowing inter-personal trust, which affects positively their relationship and also enables the development of integrated planning between them. The study was performed within a massive consumption company which is part of the “Global 500” (Fortune, 2015), with subsidiaries all over the world and more than 25 participant brands in 15 categories, having implemented over 150 innovation projects in the year under study. The analyzed subsidiary group has been awarded worldwide for their performance in competitive growth and their high contribution to the total growth. The model being analyzed in this thesis was implemented throughout Latin America, representing a remarkable case of innovation implementation excellence for subsidiaries of multinational companies. Data recollection was carried out through a structured and confidential questionnaire, sent to the universe of marketing-sales directors and managers’ database available with a high level of responsiveness of 70%, resulting in 152 valid cases. Data exploration involved a descriptive analysis, followed by a reliability estimation and an exploratory factorial analysis carried out through SPSS v.20. Confirmatory factorial analysis and path analysis (to examine relations between the different study factors) were studied using “R” software (Package 2.15.1., R Core Team, 2012) (Fox, 2006). Finally, in depth interviews were carried out to several marketing and sales managers in each of the six countries so as to further confirm the hypothesis and their relations. The models results prove that communication frequency has a positive impact on the quality of the same, which in turn has direct effects on the marketing-sales relations. Additionally, communication quality has an impact on the cognitive trust, which also relates not only to affective trust, but also to the relation between both areas. This means that in order to improve the implementation of innovation, managers should strive to enforce marketing-sales relations, facilitating the interpersonal trust construction (firstly cognitive, followed by affective trust), increasing the communication frequency, and therefore nurturing the communication quality among both areas. Through the second model, the results confirm the importance of creating effective relationships between sales and marketing to facilitate planning integrated new product implementations. While formalized new product development processes provide opportunities for sales and marketing to communicate, this does not directly influence the planning of integrated new product implementations. By using these formal opportunities to communicate to create information quality, it is possible to improve sales and marketing’s ability to integrate information during the planning process. Further, communication quality creates inter-personal trust in the other party’s competences (cognitive-based trust), leading to affect-based trust. Affect-based inter-personal trust, not only to improve the overall effectiveness of the sales and marketing relationship, but also helps in planning integrated new product implementations. This study contributes to the understanding of factors which enterprises can use to improve the inter-functional relations between marketing and sales, and the implementation of innovation in FMCG companies. The contribution of this investigation can be measured in two ways: enrichment of management and contribution to the academic area. From a business perspective, it provides massive consumption businesses leaders with knowledge on which factors affect innovation implementation, which results on mid and long-term success for the company. From an academic point of view, it provides knowledge on a prototype of successful innovation implementation management based on the marketing-sales interface effectiveness through a case study in the FMCG consumption market. Last but not least, it incorporates for the first time an empiric study on emerging geographies capable of recovery post a deep economic crisis through successful innovation implementation on their markets.
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As with all new ideas, the concept of Open Innovation requires extensive empirical investigation, testing and development. This paper analyzes Procter and Gamble's 'Connect and Develop' strategy as a case study of the major organizational and technological changes associated with open innovation. It argues that although some of the organizational changes accompanying open innovation are beginning to be described in the literature, more analysis is warranted into the ways technological changes have facilitated open innovation strategies, particularly related to new product development. Information and communications technologies enable the exchange of distributed sources of information in the open innovation process. The case study shows that furthermore a suite of new technologies for data mining, simulation, prototyping and visual representation, what we call 'innovation technology', help to support open innovation in Procter and Gamble. The paper concludes with a suggested research agenda for furthering understanding of the role played by and consequences of this technology.
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‘Adopt a consumer focus’ is the mantra that pervades the commercialisation strategies of horticultural products world-wide, but does this translate into practice in small and medium enterprises or is the process still production driven? Typically, new products in floriculture are modifications of existing products, which are introduced to existing markets, where consumers’ needs are well understood. Under these circumstances, the traditional role of market research is marginalised. In contrast, the commercialisation of ‘true’ new products into new markets involves a greater effort. Here, market research can identify market segments that are more receptive to innovation and experimentation. In this paper, the authors draw upon preliminary research and their initial experiences in the commercialisation of an Australian native flower to examine the inter-play of information flows and new product development.
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This second issue of Knowledge Management Research & Practice (KMRP) continues the international nature of the first issue, with papers from authors based on four different continents. There are five regular papers, plus the first of what is intended to be an occasional series of 'position papers' from respected figures in the knowledge management field, who have specific issues they wish to raise from a personal standpoint. The first two regular papers are both based on case studies. The first is 'Aggressively pursuing knowledge management over two years: a case study a US government organization' by Jay Liebowitz. Liebowitz is well known to both academics and practictioners as an author on knowledge management and knowledge based systems. Government departments in many Western countries must soon face up to the problems that will occur as the 'baby boomer' generation reaches retirement age over the next decade. This paper describes how one particular US government organization has attempted to address this situation (and others) through the introduction of a knowledge management initiative. The second case study paper is 'Knowledge creation through the synthesizing capability of networked strategic communities: case study on new product development in Japan' by Mitsuru Kodama. This paper looks at the importance of strategic communities - communities that have strategic relevance and support - in knowledge management. Here, the case study organization is Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), a Japanese telecommunication firm. The third paper is 'Knowledge management and intellectual capital: an empirical examination of current practice in Australia' by Albert Zhou and Dieter Fink. This paper reports the results of a survey carried out in 2001, exploring the practices relating to knowledge management and intellectual capital in Australia and the relationship between them. The remaining two regular papers are conceptual in nature. The fourth is 'The enterprise knowledge dictionary' by Stuart Galup, Ronald Dattero and Richard Hicks. Galup, Dattero and Hicks propose the concept of an enterprise knowledge dictionary and its associated knowledge management system architecture as offering the appropriate form of information technology to support various different types of knowledge sources, while behaving as a single source from the user's viewpoint. The fifth and final regular paper is 'Community of practice and metacapabilities' by Geri Furlong and Leslie Johnson. This paper looks at the role of communities of practice in learning in organizations. Its emphasis is on metacapabilities - the properties required to learn, develop and apply skills. This discussion takes work on learning and core competences to a higher level. Finally, this issue includes a position paper 'Innovation as an objective of knowledge management. Part I: the landscape of management' by Dave Snowden. Snowden has been highly visible in the knowledge management community thanks to his role as the Director of IBM Global Services' Canolfan Cynefin Centre. He has helped many government and private sector organizations to consider their knowledge management problems and strategies. This, the first of two-part paper, is inspired by the notion of complexity. In it, Snowden calls for what he sees as a 20th century emphasis on designed systems for knowledge management to be consigned to history, and replaced by a 21st century emphasis on emergence. Letters to the editor on this, or any other topic related to knowledge management research and practice, are welcome. We trust that you will find the contributions stimulating, and again invite you to contribute your own paper(s) to future issues of KMRP.
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Are the perceptions of professional economists on transaction costs consistent with make-or-buy decisions made within firms? The answer may have important implications for transaction cost research. Data on firms' outsourcing during the new product development process are taken from a largescale survey of UK, German and Irish manufacturing plants, and we test the consistency of these outsourcing decisions with the predictions derived from the transaction cost perceptions of a panel of economists. Little consistency is evident between actual outsourcing patterns and the predictions of the (Williamsonian) transactions cost model derived from the panel of economists. There is, however, evidence of a systematic pattern to the differences, suggesting that a competence or resource-based approach may be relevant to understanding firm outsourcing, and that firms are adopting a strategic approach to managing their external relationships. © Cambridge Political Economy Society 2005; all rights reserved.
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In this thesis, we explore the relationship between absorptive capacity and alliances, and their influence on firms’ competitive advantage in the US and European biopharmaceutical sectors. The study undertaken in this thesis is based on data from a large-scale international survey of over 2,500 biopharmaceutical firms in the US, the UK, Germany, France and Ireland. The thesis advanced a conceptual framework, which integrated the multi-dimensions of absorptive capacity, exploration-exploitation alliances, and competitive advantage, into a biopharmaceutical firm’s new product development process. The proposed framework is then tested in the empirical analysis, using truncated models to estimate firms’ sales growth, with zero-inflated negative binominal models capturing the number of alliances in which firms engage, and aspects of realised absorptive capacity analysed by ordinal probit models. The empirical results suggest that both skill-based and exploitation-based absorptive capacity play crucial roles in shaping firms’ competitive advantage, while neither exploratory nor exploitation alliances contribute to the improvement in firms’ competitive position. In terms of the interaction between firms’ absorptive capacity and alliance behaviour, the results suggest that engagement with exploratory alliances depends more strongly on firms’ assimilation capability (skills levels and continuity of R&D activities), while participation in exploitation alliances is more conditional on firms’ relevant knowledge monitoring capability. The results highlight the major differences between the determinants of firms’ alliance behaviour, and competitive advantage in the US and Europe – in the US firms’ skill levels prove more significant in determining firms’ engagement with exploratory alliances, whereas in Europe continuity of R&D proves more important. Correspondingly, while US firms’ engagement with exploitation alliances depends on market monitoring capability, that in Europe is more strongly linked to exploitation-based absorptive capacity. In respect of the determinants of firms’ competitive advantage – in Europe, market monitoring capability, engagement with exploitation alliances, and continuous R&D activities, prove more important, while in the US, it is firms’ market characteristics that matter most.
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Lean is usually associated with the ‘operations’ of a manufacturing enterprise; however, there is a growing awareness that these principles may be transferred readily to other functions and sectors. The application to knowledge-based activities such as engineering design is of particular relevance to UK plc. Hence, the purpose of this study has been to establish the state-of-the-art, in terms of the adoption of Lean in new product development, by carrying out a systematic review of the literature. The authors' findings confirm the view that Lean can be applied beneficially away from the factory; that an understanding and definition of value is key to success; that a set-based (or Toyota methodology) approach to design is favoured together with the strong leadership of a chief engineer; and that the successful implementation requires organization-wide changes to systems, practices, and behaviour. On this basis it is felt that this review paper provides a useful platform for further research in this topic.
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An organisation’s ability to internalise external knowledge and learn from various sources in undertaking new product development and/or entering a new market is crucial to its competitive performance. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to how growth-oriented small firms identify and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities, i.e. take entrepreneurial action, related to such methods of development, in a mature, contracting industry. The latter is particularly relevant to recent discussion and debate in academic and policy-making circles concerning the salvage of the clothing manufacture industry in developed industrialised countries, by intensifying efforts relating to diversification into high value manufacturing sectors. This paper, based on an instrumental case-firm, demonstrates analytically how learning as entrepreneurial action relating to diversifying into /technical clothing – i.e. a high value manufacturing/innovatory sector - takes place, drawing on situated learning theory. It is argued that learning relating to such entrepreneurial action is dynamic in nature and is founded on specific organising principles that foster both inter- and intracommunal learning.
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Recent scholarly discussion on open innovation put forward the notion that an organisation's ability to internalise external knowledge and learn from various sources in undertaking new product development is crucial to its competitive performance. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to how growth-oriented small firms identify and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities (i.e. take entrepreneurial action) related to such development, in an open innovation context, from a social learning perspective. This chapter, based on an instrumental case-firm, demonstrates analytically how learning as entrepreneurial action takes place, drawing on situated learning theory. It is argued that such learning is dynamic in nature and is founded on specific organising principles that foster both inter- and intracommunal learning. © 2012, IGI Global.
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We explore how openness in terms of external linkages generates learning effects, which enable firms to generate more innovation outputs from any given breadth of external linkages. Openness to external knowledge sources, whether through search activity or linkages to external partners in new product development, involves a process of interaction and information processing. Such activities are likely to be subject to a learning process, as firms learn which knowledge sources and collaborative linkages are most useful to their particular needs, and which partnerships are most effective in delivering innovation performance. Using panel data from Irish manufacturing plants, we find evidence of such learning effects: establishments with substantial experience of external collaborations in previous periods derive more innovation output from openness in the current period. © 2013 The Authors. Strategic Management Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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This article investigates whether (1) cross-functional integration within a firm and the use of information systems (IS) that support information sharing with external parties can enhance integration across the supply chain and wider networks and (2) whether collaboration with customers, suppliers and other external parties leads to increased supply chain performance in terms of new product development and introduction of new processes. Data from a high-quality survey carried out in Taiwan in 2009 were used, and appropriate econometric models were applied. Results show that the adoption of IS that enhance information sharing is vital not only for the effective communication with suppliers and with wider network members, but their adoption also has a direct effect across a firm's innovative effort. Cross-functional integration appears to matter only for the introduction of an innovative process. Collaboration with customers and suppliers affected a product's design and its overall features and functionality, respectively. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.