Innovation Management for Technical Products (eBook)

Preface 5
Foreword 7
Table of Contents 9
1 Introduction 13
2 Integrated Innovation Management 17
2.1 The Aachen Innovation Management Model AIM 19
2.2 Innovation Portfolio 31
2.3 Aachen Strategy Model for Product Innovation 34
3 The InnovationRoadMap Methodology 37
3.1 Requirements for the methodology 38
3.2 The W-model: Structure of the IRM-Methodology 42
3.3 Goal setting 48
3.4 Future analysis 57
3.5 Idea generation 78
3.6 Idea evaluation 88
3.7 Idea detailing 100
3.8 Concept Evalution 107
3.9 Implementation Planning 117
3.10 Conclusions for the IRM Methodology 126
4 Methods Description 129
4.1 Scenario Management 131
4.2 Quality Function Deployment (QFD) 136
4.3 Intuitive- and Analogy-based Solution Finding 141
4.4 TRIZ Methodology 147
4.5 Laws of Technical Systems Evolution 166
4.6 Bionics 177
4.7 Portfolio Analysis 187
4.8 Conjoint Analysis 201
4.9 Technology Roadmapping 214
5 Case studies 223
5.1 SCHOTT Glas “How a manufacturer of materials became a provider of systems” 225
5.2 Hilti AG “Strategic Exploitation of New Business Fields” 232
5.3 SUSPA Holding GmbH “Developing existing markets, discovering new opportunities” 245
5.4 Survey “MicroMed 2000+” “Discovering applications in growth markets” 258
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 303
Appendix 329
Appendix A Method Data Sheets 331
Appendix B Selected tools of the TRIZ-Methodology 409
Appendix C Product-idea data-sheet 433
Appendix D EDEN™ as software platform to support the Aachen Innovation Model 437
Index 445
Editor and Authors 449