Providing Clarity and A Common Language to the “Fuzzy Front End”

By Peter A. Koen, Greg Ajamian, Robert Burkart, A. Clamen, J. Davidson, Robb D'Amore, Claudia Elkins, Kathy Herald, Michael Incorvia, Albert Johnson and 4 more. 2001

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

Management Control and Strategic Renewal in the Front End of Innovation (2009, background): “Some process models indeed favor a more iterative and informal approach that draws attention to the main tasks in the front end rather than their linear order or decision-making points (Koen et al., 2001).”
Where Do Good Innovation Ideas Come From? Exploring the Influence of Network Connectivity on Innovation Idea Quality (2009, background): “It is thus not surprising that the early stage of the innovation process, where innovation ideas are generated and identified, has been recognized as an important phase that has high impact on the success and costs of innovation (Koen et al., 2001; Reid and de Brentani, 2004; Zhang and Doll, 2001).”
Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action (2013, background): “others’ preferences, it would seem that empathic accuracy would facilitate progress through the early phases of the entrepreneurial action process in which the entrepreneur generates an idea and must decide whether to invest additional resources into its development (Koen et al., 2001; Smith and Rei”
Exploring the Contributions of Involving Ordinary Users in Ideation of Technology‐Based Services* (2009, background): “There is also a stream of research that has characterized FFE as an ‘iterative irrational creative process’ (e.g. Koen et al., 2001).”
Managing innovation for sustainability (2012, background): “Different configurations to suit different size and scale of projects have been explored – for example ‘fuzzy front end’ tools for early stage selection (Koen et al., 2001), ‘fast track routines’ for simple small-scale projects (Belliveau et al.”
A Typology of Reverse Innovation (2015, background): “The first phase is often called “fuzzy front end” (Smith and Reinertsen, 1991) or “front end of innovation” (Koen et al., 2001) and includes the generation of one or more new ideas based on an opportunity or technology analysis (research) and the creation of a basic plan or concept for a product bas”
Innovation Management Measurement: A Review (2006, neutral): “1995; Verworn 2002), including opportunity identification, opportunity analysis, idea genesis, idea selection and concept development (Koen et al. 2001).”
Integration of market pull and technology push in the corporate front end and innovation management—Insights from the German software industry (2009, methodology): “The most popular one is the new concept development model from Koen et al. (2001), which is supposed to provide a common language for front end activities (see Fig.”