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Faster New Product Development: Investigating the Effects of Technology and Characteristics of the Project Leader and Team
Author(s) -
McDonough Edward F.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of product innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.646
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1540-5885
pISSN - 0737-6782
DOI - 10.1111/1540-5885.1030241
Subject(s) - project team , new product development , affect (linguistics) , business , project management , product (mathematics) , knowledge management , work (physics) , team effectiveness , work breakdown structure , process management , team composition , engineering management , operations management , project management triangle , computer science , psychology , marketing , project charter , engineering , systems engineering , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , communication
In this article, Edward McDonough III examines the relationship between speed of new product development and technology, on the one hand, and characteristics of project leaders and project team members, on the other. The reported results suggest that the speed with which new products are developed is affected by the type of work undertaken on the project, i.e., its technology and the characteristics of both project leaders and the project team. However, the characteristics that affect speed differ for different types of projects and are different for team members and the team leader.