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Project radicalness and maturity: a contingency model for the importance of enablers of technological innovation

About: The article was published on 2003-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Maturity (finance) & Contingency theory.

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TL;DR: This article showed that certain types of dialogue can spur technical creativity and that coaching dialogues that support a scientist's autonomy while providing guidance can be particularly effective for staving off stammers.

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TL;DR: In this article, Abdul Ali examines published articles and offers a set of propositions to show how several factors influence the product development decision, and cites examples from the business world to illustrate these propositions.

284 citations


"Project radicalness and maturity: a..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Given the need for higher levels of R&D in competitive markets (Jankowski, 1998; Balachandra & Friar, 1997), Ali (1994) argues that, as the number of organisations in an industry increases (leading to fiercer competition), the rate of introduction of pioneering products increases....

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  • ...14 For a more comprehensive summary of the role of environmental factors in enabling pioneering versus radical innovation, consult Ali (1994). 15 Although Benchmarking is operationalised as internal to the organisation (Chapter 4), it still relates to information gained from sources outside the object of analysis, the project team, and hence relates to external, rather than internal, learning....

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the fact that product innovation does not happen as well as it should and that the critical success factors are noticeably absent from the typical new product project.

278 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a project-specific typological approach, a multidimensional criteria for assessing project success, and a multivariate statistical analysis method to assess project success.
Abstract: Although the causes for project success and failure have been the subject of many studies, no conclusive evidence or common agreement has been achieved so far. One criticism involves the universalistic approach used often in project management studies, according to which all projects are assumed to be similar. A second problem is the issue of subjectiveness, and sometimes weakly defined success measures; yet another concern is the limited number of managerial variables examined by previous research. In the present study we use a project-specific typological approach, a multidimensional criteria for assessing project success, and a multivariate statistical analysis method. According to our typology projects were classified according to their technological uncertainty at project initiation and their system scope which is their location on a hierarchical ladder of systems and subsystems. For each of the 127 projects in our study that were executed in Israel, we recorded 360 managerial variables and 13 success measures. The use of a very detailed data and multivariate methods such as canonical correlation and eigenvector analysis enables us to account for all the interactions between managerial and success variables and to address a handful of perspectives, often left unanalyzed by previous research. Assessing the variants of managerial variables and their impact on project success for various types of projects, serves also a step toward the establishment of a typological theory of projects. Although some success factors are common to all projects, our study identified project-specific lists of factors, indicating for example, that high-uncertainty projects must be managed differently than low-uncertainty projects, and high-scope projects differently than low-scope projects.

263 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the reader is referred to the literature on research into the dynamics of new product development, considering and commenting on the variety of approaches reported in the literature, describing the plethora of "critical success factors" thrown up by the “generalist” studies, and focusing on these prevalent research themes to explore the particular research interests within each.
Abstract: New Product Development, Research Takes the reader through the literature on research into the dynamics of new product development, considering and commenting on the variety of approaches reported in the literature, describing the plethora of “critical success factors” thrown up by the “generalist” studies in new product development to identify the recurring themes within the literature, and focusing on these prevalent research themes to explore the particular research interests within each. Finally, identifies gaps in the extant knowledge and points out areas for future research.

263 citations