Focusing the fuzzy front–end in new product development

By Jongbae Kim, D. Wilemon. 2002

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Subfields: Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• The Lead User method: an outline of empirical findings and issues for future research (2004, neutral): “After all, the product idea will influence the definition of the product concept and, at the end, will determine the key attributes of the commercial product (Kim and Wilemon, 2002b).”
• Integration of market pull and technology push in the corporate front end and innovation management—Insights from the German software industry (2009, background): “Surprisingly, there has been little research done on the issue thus far (Kim and Wilemon, 2002).”
• The Organizational Life of an Idea: Integrating Social Network, Creativity and Decision-Making Perspectives (2007, background): “Authors focusing on these activities advocate that the FE process is geared towards reducing the uncertainty surrounding an idea to a point where it meets with a firm’s set of pre-determined selection criteria (Kim and Wilemon, 2002; Moenaert et al., 1995).”