The Influence and Value of Analogical Thinking during New Product Ideation

By Darren W. Dahl, Page Moreau. 2002

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing, Mechanical Engineering

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Making the Most of Failure Experiences: Exploring the Relationship between Business Failure and the Identification of Business Opportunities (2016, background): “Structural alignment processes have been shown to influence performance on creative tasks such as scientific innovation and new 3June, 2014May, 6 459 product ideation (cf. Dahl & Moreau, 2002), tasks akin to opportunity identification.”
The Role of Analogy in the Institutionalization of Sustainability Reporting (2010, background): “Regardless of whether institutional entrepreneurs borrow and leverage dominant discourses well established within the field, or discourses ostensibly unrelated to the practice they are trying to diffuse (Rao 1998), comparison and analogy are prevalent mechanisms in discursive strategies used by…”
Dimensions of Creative Evaluation: Distinct Design and Reasoning Strategies for Aesthetic, Functional and Originality Judgments (2016, background): “Two modes of originality judgments may exist, one valuing the perceived originality by consumers (e.g., as practiced by marketers; see Dahl & Moreau, 2002; Moldovan, Goldenberg, & Chattopadhyay, 2011), the other valuing the factual originality for the domain (e.g., as practiced by domain…”
Innovation and SMEs: Misaligned perspectives and goals among entrepreneurs, academics, and policy makers (2008, background): “, 1997), scarce bureaucracy and clannish structures (Sivades and Dwyer, 2000), great operational expertise and customer knowledge (Dahl and Moreau, 2002).”
Cognitive Processes of Opportunity Recognition: The Role of Structural Alignment (2010, background): “Dahl and Moreau 2002, Dunbar 1993, Ward 1995)— and including strategy making (Gavetti and Rivkin 2005, 2007). One of the primary findings of this research is that alignment proceeds at two distinct levels: one centered on the superficial features and the other on structural relationships (Gentner 19”
Marketing Under Uncertainty:The Logic of an Effectual Approach (2009, background): “For example, in their think-aloud protocol study of real-world industrial designers, Dahl and Moreau (2002) show the importance of pattern recognition and analogical reasoning in new product development.”
On the benefits and pitfalls of analogies for innovative design : Ideation performance based on analogical distance, commonness, and modality of examples (2011, background): “For instance, it has been shown that the number of far-field analogies used by designers during ideation is positively related to the originality of proposed solutions, as rated by a sample of potential customers [18].”
Applied Tests of Design Skills—Part 1: Divergent Thinking (2012, background): “Design fixation has been identified as a common block to creativity; it is the tendency of a designer to favor a design from previous experience, a design seen or developed by the designer [27].”
Experiencing Creativity in the Organization: From Individual Creativity to Collective Creativity (2012, background): “Priming can, in fact, reduce creativity, as the participants tend to be preoccupied with already-known solutions (Dahl & Moreau, 2002; Marsh, Bink, & Hicks, 1999).”
Inspiration and fixation: Questions, methods, findings, and challenges (2016, background): “…saying that the example should be considered a solution for that problem (Linsey et al., 2010), the example was provided to help them get started (Dahl & Moreau, 2002), that the examples are there to raise thoughts (Liikkanen & Perttula, 2008) or that the examples should be used to awaken…”
Exploring the Contributions of Involving Ordinary Users in Ideation of Technology‐Based Services* (2009, background): “– 7 – Despite the fact that all innovation starts with an idea, little attention has been paid in the literature to understanding the phase of idea creation (Dahl and Moreau, 2002).”