Integrating Design into the Fuzzy Front End of the Innovation Process

Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 105-124

  Calabretta, Giulia ^a   Gemser, Gerda ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Design professionals; FFE problem definition; Fuzzy front end; Information management; Innovation problems; Stakeholder management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958617970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119154273.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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