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  • Innovation strategies for product design

    Creator:
    Nix, Anthony A.
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    Innovation can be considered the driving force behind product design. This thesis strives to improve the ease at which innovation is achieved. Firstly by examining how design information is presented and comprehended by various personality types. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test is a quick, easy, and accurate way to determine...
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    STRATEGIES FOR PRODUCT DESIGN INTRODUCTION in·no·va·tion (in′ə vā′ shən) n. 1 the process of introducing new

  • Innovation in China's furniture industry

    Creator:
    Cao, Xiaozhi
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    Innovation is considered the ultimate drive for business success. Fast growing furniture imports from China have become a controversial topic within U.S. wood and furniture industries. Low-cost production, which is stereotypically considered as the major competitive advantage of the Chinese-made products, has received considerable attention by a large body of...
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    ) suggest that innovation is "the creation of a new product-market-technology-organization-combination

  • Marketing sophistication in the forest products industry

    Creator:
    Han, Xiaoou
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    In the forest products business and management literature, one common categorization of different types of innovation is product innovation, process innovation and business systems innovation. Forest products companies have long placed high emphasis on process innovations, which are related to yield maximization, manufacturing efficiency and operating costs reduction. This is...
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    Dissertation
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    categorization of different types of innovation is product innovation, process innovation and business systems

  • Segmenting single-family homebuilders on a measure of innovativeness

    Creator:
    Fell, David R.
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    The goal of this study is to provide a better understanding of new product adoption by single family homebuilders. Information from this study will be useful to producers of new and existing engineered wood products in targeting their market development efforts. Homebuilders are studied with the goal of segmenting them...
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    should be asked when marketing a new product. With the increased rate of product innovation in the

  • Oregon's forest sector innovation system : an investigation towards advanced performance

    Creator:
    Orozco, Nadine C.
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    Innovation is a critical component for long term success of an organization. However, being innovative is rarely easy. Successful implementation of any innovation (product, process, or business system) can heavily rely on the functionality of the current innovation system in a given industry. An innovation system is composed of policies,...
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    . However, being innovative is rarely easy. Successful implementation of any innovation (product, process

  • Guide groups : an evaluation of educational innovation in a secondary school

    Creator:
    Erickson, John William
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    Purpose of the Study: This study was undertaken as a result of interest in the introduction of guide groups into the operation of secondary schools. Particularly when viewed from the historical perspective of the times in which it was initiated, the guide group concept offers an opportunity to examine the...
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    Dissertation
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    Guide groups : an evaluation of educational innovation in a

  • The Ibis, journal of the British Ornithologists' Union : a pre-synthesis portrait

    Creator:
    Johnson, Kristin Renee
    Abstract:
    In 1959 the British Ornithological journal, The Ibis, published a centenary commemorative volume on the history of ornithology in Britain. Over the previous few decades, the contributors to this volume had helped focus the attention of ornithologists on the methods, priorities, and problems of modem biology, specifically the theory ofevolution...
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    Masters Thesis
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    The Ibis, Journal of the British Ornithologists' Union: A Pre

  • Lead-user research in the wood window value chain

    Creator:
    Kamke, Kathryn Jean
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    Lead-user research is a relatively new marketing research technique, and it has not seen much use in the forest sector. Lead-user research is designed to capture not just the needs of the customer in their own voice but also to involve actual users of goods and/or services in their development....
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    Innovation…………………………………………………....7 Product Innovation……………………………………………………..8 Drivers of Innovation

  • Faculty perceptions of organizational climate for innovation at community colleges

    Creator:
    Batazhan, Tatyana
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    Higher education is faced with ever-increasing challenges, which require fundamental changes in order to ensure its relevance in the future. Business leaders and academic scholars urge organizations to continuously reshape and renew through learning and innovation to assure viability and sustainability. Organizational climate serves as a foundation that can promote...
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    Faculty Perceptions of Organizational Climate for Innovation

  • Modeling innovativeness in consumer products with the influence of environmental sustainability

    Creator:
    Gilchrist, Brady
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    This thesis is the result of two research publications, which together form a framework for the evaluation of product innovativeness with potential future applications to early design. Innovation is a challenging concept to quantify. Experts seemingly have a grasp of what innovation is when they see it, however this evaluation...
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    , 12]. This thesis forms a framework to incorporate an evaluation of product innovation and