An Understanding of the Role of Trust in Knowledge Seeking and Acceptance Practices in Distributed Development Teams

To make effective contributions to design, human factors practitioners need ways to influence the thinking and behavior of people with very different priorities from their own. Practical insights and techniques developed in the course of work with many development teams are presented here. They are based upon three principles: facilitating empathy, making information visible, and providing inspiration. Techniques for creating empathy are emphasized and include character development, scenario-building, and role-playing. The creation of visual material includes use of graphical ways of presenting information, photography, video, model-making and sketching as data gathering and presentation tools. Throughout, suggestions are made for communicating human factors information in ways that are inspirational rather than restrictive to designers.

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Modeling a cocreative process: The contributions of design and management

Recherche et Applications en Marketing (English Edition) ◽

10.1177/2051570719851712 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 111-137 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maud Dampérat ◽

Florence Jeannot ◽

Eline Jongmans ◽

Alain Jolibert

Keyword(s):

New Product Development ◽

Creative Process ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Idea Generation ◽

Mediating Role ◽

New Product Development Teams ◽

Development Teams ◽

Three Stages ◽

Individual Variables

This research focuses on the understanding of a team creative process (or co-creative process) by adding design and management inputs to the marketing approach. It proposes and empirically tests a co-creative process based on the three stages of the design thinking method: (1) need definition, (2) idea generation, and (3) solution prototyping. This model also includes the influence of individual variables –empathy, domain-relevant familiarity, and task involvement –at different stages of the co-creative process. The results validate the mediating role of idea generation between need definition and solution prototyping and the influence of the selected individual variables. The predictive validity of the co-creative process has been tested via the evaluation of the solution by experts. Several actions are proposed at each stage of the co-creative process to enable organizations to stimulate the creativity of their new product development teams.

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Gendered Knowledge Accessibility: Evaluating the Role of Gender in Knowledge Seeking among Engineers in the US

Journal of Management in Engineering ◽

10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000865 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 04020094

Author(s):

Cristina Poleacovschi ◽

Amy Javernick-Will ◽

Sheng Wang ◽

Tony Tong

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Accessibility ◽

The Us ◽

Knowledge Seeking

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A METHODOLOGY TO IDENTIFY AND ADDRESS IMPROVEMENT POTENTIALS IN COMMUNICATION PROCESSES OF DISTRIBUTED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT – AN INITIAL APPROACH

Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference ◽

10.1017/dsd.2020.35 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 541-550

Author(s):

K. Duehr ◽

M. Hirsch ◽

A. Albers ◽

N. Bursac

Keyword(s):

Product Development ◽

Machine Tool ◽

Development Process ◽

Distributed Development ◽

Initial Approach ◽

Communication Processes ◽

Development Teams

AbstractThe advantages of distributed development teams help companies to address megatrends like globalization and individualization. However, development teams are facing challenges according to increasing requirements on communication processes. This approach provides a methodology to identify and address improvement potentials in communication processes of distributed product development by including the dimensions technology, organization and human involved in the development process. The validation of the methodology's process steps was carried out together with a machine tool manufacturer.

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Globalization and innovation with Chinese characteristics: the case of the automotive industry

International Journal of Emerging Markets ◽

10.1108/ijoem-02-2018-0111 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Claudio Petti ◽

Francesca Spigarelli ◽

Ping Lv ◽

Mario Biggeri

Keyword(s):

Absorptive Capacity ◽

Automotive Industry ◽

Theoretical Development ◽

International Expansion ◽

Content Type ◽

Chinese Characteristics ◽

Knowledge Assimilation ◽

Latecomer Firms ◽

Knowledge Seeking

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the internationalization of Chinese new global players through innovation-oriented Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As). Design/methodology/approach The paper combines the analysis of East-Asian and Chinese multinationals’ international expansion within international business (IB) and innovation domains, with the “latecomer” perspective. It is a conceptual contribution, based on the role of local institutions and firm’s absorptive capacity. A theoretical framework is developed, and further elucidated with two illustrative cases of Chinese M&As abroad in the automotive sector. Implications for theoretical development and practical application are then drawn. Findings Chinese firms’ M&As abroad have become one of the preferential modes of developing innovation capabilities. The success of these endeavors is argued to be the result of a combination of a strong push from government industrial policies, along with significant internal knowledge assimilation and transformation capabilities. Originality/value The paper extends IB literature integrating the latecomer firms’ perspective within a novel conceptual framework, which adds to the traditional resource-based arguments about incumbent MNEs asset and knowledge-seeking internationalization modes, as well as institutional and multi-dimensional absorptive capacity perspectives.

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