Role of careful customer need assessment in product innovation management - Empirical analysis

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 85-103

  Karkkainen H ^a   Elfvengren, K ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Customer needs; Manufacturing companies; Need assessment; Product development; Product innovation management

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT (PIM);

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0036838407     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(02)00245-1     Document Type: Article

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