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Mohan V. Tatikonda
Other affiliations: Saint Petersburg State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis ...read more
Bio: Mohan V. Tatikonda is an academic researcher from Indiana University. The author has contributed to research in topics: New product development & Project management. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 32 publications receiving 4165 citations. Previous affiliations of Mohan V. Tatikonda include Saint Petersburg State University & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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TL;DR: The management of new service development (NSD) has become an important competitive concern in many service industries as discussed by the authors, however, NSD remains among the least studied and understood topics in the service management literature.
688 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt a multidisciplinary view of innovation by integrating operations and marketing perspectives of product development and show that the organizational process factors studied are associated with achievement of operational outcome targets for product quality, unit cost, and time-to-market.
Abstract: This paper adopts a multidisciplinary view of innovation by integrating operations and marketing perspectives of product development. The conceptual framework builds on the resource-based view of the firm and organizational information-processing theory to characterize relationships among organizational process factors, product development capabilities, critical uncertainties, and operational/market performance in product development projects. Data from a cross-sectional sample of 120 completed development projects for assembled goods is analyzed via a two-stage hierarchical moderated regression approach. The findings show that: 1 the organizational process factors studied are associated with achievement of operational outcome targets for product quality, unit cost, and time-to-market; 2 achievement of operational outcomes aids the achievement of market outcomes, in turn suggesting that development capabilities are indeed valuable firm resources; and 3 these relationships are robust under conditions of technological, market, and environmental uncertainty. This article provides practical insight into how product development projects can be better managed for operational and market success. Additionally, this article sets a theoretical and empirical basis for future research on the influence of organizational process factors and capabilities on diverse product-innovation outcomes.
621 citations
TL;DR: This paper applies the construct of task uncertainty to study relationships between product development project characteristics and project outcomes, hypothesizing that technology novelty and project complexity characteristics contribute to project task uncertainty and are associated with project execution outcomes.
Abstract: This paper applies the construct of task uncertainty to study relationships between product development project characteristics and project outcomes. The authors characterize product development projects in terms of their technology novelty and project complexity levels. This characterization is based on product development literature and organizational information processing theory. They hypothesize that technology novelty and project complexity characteristics contribute to project task uncertainty and are in turn associated with project execution outcomes. A cross-sectional survey of 120 new product development projects for assembled goods was employed to test relationships between project characteristics and project success. Success measures include achievement of individual project goals, such as technical performance, unit-cost, time-to-market and overall achievement of project goals.
597 citations
TL;DR: It is found that the project execution methods are positively associated with project execution success, and these methods are effective singly and collectively, suggesting that firms can “balance firmness and flexibility” in product development via appropriate execution methods.
458 citations
TL;DR: A framework of infrastructure based on the idea that continuous improvement can serve as a dynamic capability when it includes a comprehensive organizational context is presented, which adds to the conceptual understanding of continuous improvement.
438 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between green supply chain management (GSCM) practices and environmental and economic performance in Chinese manufacturing enterprises, and investigated how two primary types of management operations philosophies, quality management and just-in-time (or lean) manufacturing principles, influence the relationships between GSCM practices and performance.
2,308 citations
TL;DR: Product service systems (PSS) have been heralded as one of the most effective instruments for moving society towards a resource-efficient, circular economy and creating a much needed "resource revolution" as mentioned in this paper.
1,345 citations
TL;DR: Cooper and Kleinschmidt as discussed by the authors proposed that a company's overall new product performance depends on the following elements: the NPD process and the specific activities within this process; the organization of the new product development program; the firm's NPD strategy; a firm's culture and climate for innovation; and senior management commitment to NPD.
1,246 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine whether supplier involvement in new product development can produce significant improvements in financial returns and/or product design performance and test these proposed relationships using survey data collected from a group of global organizations and find support for the relationships based on the results of a multiple regression analysis.
1,157 citations
TL;DR: In many of the qualitative case studies reviewed, sufficient details in research design, data collection, and data analysis were missing and there was a lack of consistency in the way the case method has been applied.
1,149 citations