Development of a Best Practices Framework for New Product Development in Small to Medium Enterprises

John Nicholas; Ann Ledwith

doi:10.3990/2.268616079

Development of a Best Practices Framework for New Product Development in Small to Medium Enterprises

John Nicholas, Ann Ledwith

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The successful development of new products and services is crucial to the long-term survival of business enterprises. With increased competition to the market place and shortening product life cycles pressure has been imposed on all enterprises to innovate more efficiently. This paper presents the development of an initial best practice framework for new product development (NPD) within Small to Medium Enterprises (SME’s). The initial framework was developed based on Kahn’s model (Kahn, Barczak et al. 2004; Kahn, Barczak et al. 2006) and an extensive review of currently recognised NPD Best Practises. The model was refined using the Delphi method with a panel of experts including academic personnel within the University of Limerick and various other professionals. In addition to refinement of the model the question of whether or not large and small companies can be examined using the same framework was posed to the panel of experts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 14th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference and Doctoral Workshop 2006
Editors	Gloria Rossini
Place of Publication	Enschede
Publisher	University of Twente
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9789081078412
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3990/2.268616079
Publication status	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes
Event	14th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference, HTSF 2006 - University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands Duration: 11 May 2006 → 13 May 2006 Conference number: 14

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Conference	14th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference, HTSF 2006
Abbreviated title	HTSF
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Enschede
Period	11/05/06 → 13/05/06

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Nicholas, J & Ledwith, A 2006, Development of a Best Practices Framework for New Product Development in Small to Medium Enterprises. in G Rossini (ed.), Proceedings of the 14th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference and Doctoral Workshop 2006. University of Twente, Enschede, 14th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference, HTSF 2006, Enschede, Netherlands, 11/05/06. https://doi.org/10.3990/2.268616079

Development of a Best Practices Framework for New Product Development in Small to Medium Enterprises. / Nicholas, John; Ledwith, Ann.
Proceedings of the 14th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference and Doctoral Workshop 2006. ed. / Gloria Rossini. Enschede: University of Twente, 2006.

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