Innovation Management for Technical Products - Systematic and Integrated Product Development and Production Planning

Preface

Foreword

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 Integrated Innovation Management

2.1 The Aachen Innovation Management Model AIM

2.2 Innovation Portfolio

2.3 Aachen Strategy Model for Product Innovation

3 The InnovationRoadMap Methodology

3.1 Requirements for the methodology

3.2 The W-model: Structure of the IRM-Methodology

3.3 Goal setting

3.4 Future analysis

3.5 Idea generation

3.6 Idea evaluation

3.7 Idea detailing

3.8 Concept Evalution

3.9 Implementation Planning

3.10 Conclusions for the IRM Methodology

4 Methods Description

4.1 Scenario Management

4.2 Quality Function Deployment (QFD)

4.3 Intuitive- and Analogy-based Solution Finding

4.4 TRIZ Methodology

4.5 Laws of Technical Systems Evolution

4.6 Bionics

4.7 Portfolio Analysis

4.8 Conjoint Analysis

4.9 Technology Roadmapping

5 Case studies

5.1 SCHOTT Glas “How a manufacturer of materials became a provider of systems”

5.2 Hilti AG “Strategic Exploitation of New Business Fields”

5.3 SUSPA Holding GmbH “Developing existing markets, discovering new opportunities”

5.4 Survey “MicroMed 2000+” “Discovering applications in growth markets”

5.5 Neumag GmbH & Co. KG “Systematic innovation management as the basis for effectiveness in product development”

5.6 Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaA “Reorganization of the business process Innovation”

Bibliography

Appendix

Appendix A Method Data Sheets

Appendix B Selected tools of the TRIZ-Methodology

Appendix C Product-idea data-sheet

Appendix D EDEN™ as software platform to support the Aachen Innovation Model

Index

Editor and Authors