Over the past several decades, digitization has invaded all areas of human activity, including
innovation. The result of digitization of existing tools for design and collaboration, and the …

This study aims to analyze the fuzzy front end stage (FFE) of systemic innovations, which are
characterised by interdependence with other innovations and actors of the business …

Search and recombination are important mechanisms in the creativity phase of innovation.
Digital transformation and the resulting pervasive digitalization of the innovation function …

Scholarly and practitioner literature have both described the potential benefits of using
methods associated with a “design thinking” approach to develop new innovations. Most …

Many managers expect a substantial impact of digitization on new product development
(NPD) as it is an information‐intensive business process. Therefore, a better understanding …

Abstract Knowledge hiding, a unique concept distinct from knowledge sharing, occurs
frequently in NPD project teams. Although knowledge hiding has been proven to cause …

Digital technologies have become omnipresent in our professional and personal lives. While
they provide numerous opportunities, they also cause tensions, many of which are …

Over the past two decades, firms have increasingly adopted information technology (IT) tools
and services to improve the new product development (NPD) process. Recently, social …

Gathering user feedback on provisional design concepts early in the design process has the
potential to reduce time-to-market and create more satisfying products. Among the …

The architecture of a product is the design and specification of inherent subsystems,
components, and interfaces between subsystems. Well‐defined interfaces allow the …