Title :
Pre-emptive radical innovation: building inter-departmental common knowledge in a short product development cycle
Author :
Ding, Hung-bin ; Ravichandran, T.
Author_Institution :
Lally Sch. of Manage. & Technol., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
Abstract :
In the context of radical innovation, the mutual understanding accrued through longitudinal inter-departmental interactions for continuous innovations can become obsolete. In order to maintain a high quality inter-departmental interface, firms have to rebuild interface common knowledge by acquiring and creating knowledge. It is not clear how such “time pressure” influences the firms´ quest of critical knowledge for radical innovation. In this article, the authors describe radical innovation development in a long product development cycle as preventive innovation; radical product development in a compressed product development cycle is noted as pre-emptive innovation. This paper suggests that companies´ choice between preventive or pre-emptive strategy may result in different approaches of common knowledge building in the context of radical innovation
Keywords :
knowledge acquisition; product development; research and development management; compressed product development cycle; continuous innovations; inter-departmental common knowledge building; knowledge acquisition; knowledge creation; knowledge management; long product development cycle; pre-emptive radical innovation; preventive innovation; radical innovation development; radical product development; short product development cycle; Innovation management; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge management; Microcomputers; Monitoring; Product development; Research and development management; Technological innovation; Technology management; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering Management Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6442-2
DOI :
10.1109/EMS.2000.872568