This paper integrates market research within this lead user methodology and report a test of it in the rapidly evolving field of computer-aided systems for the design of printed circuit boards (PC-CAD).

Corporate innovation management geared to long-term success calls for strategy to grow innovations into a substantial competitive advantage. This, however, coincides with an enormous failure-rate at the market, especially in the field of breakthrough innovations. Hence, in recent times,...

Alexander Sänn presents a functional method based on lead user method, preference measurement, and recommendations using collaborative filtering. The introduced method in this book stimulates input from internal and external sources, predicts basic customers’ acceptance, and evaluates this...

Identification of barriers in the user innovation process -- Criteria for distinction of barriers and resource-based problems -- Analysis of moderating effects of innovators’ openness on product properties

Die Einführung innovativer Produkte, die die Bedürfnisse und Wünsche der Kunden befriedigen, ist für Unternehmen eine wichtige Komponente für Gewinnsteigerungen und den Ausbau von Marktanteilen. Da jedoch durch die fortschreitende Globalisierung eine Verkürzung der Produktlebenszyklen...