Project Management in the Fuzzy Front End
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| − | In many organizations the pressure on the '''product development process (PDP)''' has increased through the demand of greater product varieties and shorter lifecycles. Organizations aim for a structured way of speeding up the PDP while not loosing effective scoping in the identification of market needs. Often they have succeeded using the '''stage gate process''' - or a customized version of it. But even though the execution of an idea has increased in efficiency the search and selection of the ideas in the "Fuzzy Front End" of the PDP resembles great complications to the project management. | + | In many organizations the pressure on the '''product development process (PDP)''' has increased through the demand of greater product varieties and shorter lifecycles. Organizations aim for a structured way of speeding up the PDP while not loosing effective scoping in the identification of market needs. Often they have succeeded using the '''stage gate process''' - or a customized version of it. But even though the execution of an idea has increased in efficiency the search and selection of the ideas in the '''"Fuzzy Front End"''' of the PDP resembles great complications to the project management. This comes with no surprise since the "Fuzzy Front End" is typically characterized through a high degree of uncertainty and equivocality. However transferring knowledge from the risk management tools for decision making under uncertainty can be applied to ease the Project Management in the Fuzzy Front End. |
== Project Management == | == Project Management == | ||
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== Project Management of Incremental Innovations == | == Project Management of Incremental Innovations == | ||
| − | === Incremental Innovations === | + | === The Fuzzy Front End of Incremental Innovations === |
=== The Stage Gate Process === | === The Stage Gate Process === | ||
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== Project Management of Radical Innovations == | == Project Management of Radical Innovations == | ||
| − | === Radical Innovations === | + | === The Fuzzy Front End of Radical Innovations === |
=== Decision Making under Uncertainty=== | === Decision Making under Uncertainty=== | ||
Revision as of 14:08, 11 September 2016
In many organizations the pressure on the product development process (PDP) has increased through the demand of greater product varieties and shorter lifecycles. Organizations aim for a structured way of speeding up the PDP while not loosing effective scoping in the identification of market needs. Often they have succeeded using the stage gate process - or a customized version of it. But even though the execution of an idea has increased in efficiency the search and selection of the ideas in the "Fuzzy Front End" of the PDP resembles great complications to the project management. This comes with no surprise since the "Fuzzy Front End" is typically characterized through a high degree of uncertainty and equivocality. However transferring knowledge from the risk management tools for decision making under uncertainty can be applied to ease the Project Management in the Fuzzy Front End.
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Project Management
The "Fuzzy Front End"
Project Management of Incremental Innovations
The Fuzzy Front End of Incremental Innovations
The Stage Gate Process
In development of incremental innovations organizations aim for a very structured way.
