Systems approach to knowledge development for creating new products and services

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 29-40

  Pourdehnad, John ^a,c   Robinson, Patrick J ^b  

^a Ackoff Ctr for Adv Syst A   (United States)

^b Robinson Consulting   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer idealized design; Knowledge development; Market research; Organizational learning; Product and service development; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035530897     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.365     Document Type: Article

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