Assessing the relationship between practice changes and process improvement in new product development

Omega

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 85-96

  Maylor, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Implementation; New product development; Operations management; Process improvement; Tools and techniques

Indexed keywords

PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

'CURRENT; IMPLEMENTATION; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; OPERATION MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; PROJECT COST; TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041691124     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0483(00)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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