Many models of the design and development process have been published over the years,
representing it for different purposes and from different points of view. This article contributes …

The authors provide synthesized summaries of research on product design conducted over
the 20‐year period from 1995 to 2014, as well as suggestions for future research. Building …

Contests are a historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging
innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to …

In an innovation contest, a firm (the seeker) facing an innovation-related problem (eg, a
technical R&D problem) posts this problem to a population of independent agents (the …

This article develops a model of a project as a payoff function that depends on the state of
the world and the choice of a sequence of actions. A causal map**, which may be …

Web personalization can achieve two business goals: increased advertising revenue and
increased sales revenue. The realization of the two goals is related to two kinds of user …

The problem of designing, coordinating, and managing complex systems has been central
to the management and organization literature. Recent writings have tended to offer …

Every company's ability to innovate depends on a process of experimentation whereby new
products and services are created and existing ones improved. But the cost of …

In project management research, it is acknowledged that two perspectives on project
performance must be considered: project efficiency (delivering efficient outputs) and project …

In this paper we model the pathways commonly traversed as user innovations are
transformed into commercial products. First, one or more users recognize a new set of …