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Our article studies how initiatives oriented towards Quality and continuous improvement (e.g. Six Sigma, TPS-Lean, Operational Excellence) can support the development of systematic innovation, based on the hypothesis that the tools and good practices of Quality have reached their maturity after developing since the 40’s, which does not happen yet with Innovation and its principles. To obtain general trends first, we study the evolution of the publications associated with the terms "quality" and "innovation" from 1990 to 2016 and then focus on the compatibility between the principles of operational excellence (ExOp) and Product-design innovation (IDP.) Initially, we observed that Quality related studies development rate is decreasing through time, supporting the assumption of maturity. This does not happen with Innovation related studies which are growing over time, making reasonable to assume that Innovation related research will reach and eventually surpass in quantity the Quality related research. Although we could observe that the ExOp and IDP have compatible general objectives, we discovered that it is not advisable to apply directly the principles of ExOp to the IDP, both for empirical and conceptual reasons. Within the conceptual reasons, stand out the potential conflict between the efficiency-orientation of the ExOp and the novelty-orientation of the IDP. This makes the IDP prone to taking risks in search of novelty and disruptive anticipation, in circumstances that the ExOp

Consideraciones al aplicar los principios de la Excelencia Operacional al innovar en el Diseño de Productos