Highlights•Reviews a wide range of design creativity case studies.•Identifies related studies
from other disciplines.•Summarises valuable and little-known case descriptions.There are …

Highlights•We map the current use of prototypes in 8 different companies.•Prototypes can be
used to elicit unknown unknowns throughout the design process.•High functional prototypes …

Many companies design families of products based on product platforms that enable
economies of scale and scope while satisfying a variety of market applications. Product …

Context: Software startups aim to develop innovative products, grow rapidly, and thus
become important in the development of economy and jobs. Requirements engineering …

Leadership, personality, and organizational factors were analyzed to measure their
combined effect on virtual‐based product development time and scope‐quality performance …

This paper presents a decision support tool for manufacturers and recyclers towards end-of-
life strategies for waste electrical and electronic equipment. A mathematical formulation …

Over the past 20 years, the use of digital design tools such as C omputer‐A ided‐D esign
(CAD) has increased dramatically. Today, almost no product development project is …

Tedious work is pervasive in creative work, yet it has received little attention in the literature
on creativity, including studies of science, innovation, and product development. Drawing …

Innovation is a top strategic priority for firms across all industries. In The Innovation
Navigator, Tucker J. Marion and Sebastian K. Fixson explore four innovation archetypes or …

Companies in highly competitive environments often adopt project management practices to
manage their processes and activities in a quest to leverage flexibility. Doing so these …