Understanding fire fighting in new product development

MIT Center for Innovation in Product Development under NSF Cooperative Agreement Number EEC-9529140, the Harley-Davidson Motor Company and the Ford Motor Company

[1]  D. Sterman,et al.  Misperceptions of Feedback in a Dynamic Decision Making Experiment , 1989 .

[2]  S. Plous The psychology of judgment and decision making , 1994 .

[3]  B. Brehmer Dynamic decision making: human control of complex systems. , 1992, Acta psychologica.

[4]  Karl T. Ulrich,et al.  Product Design and Development , 1995 .

[5]  K. Klein,et al.  The Challenge of Innovation Implementation , 1996 .

[6]  L. Perlow The Time Famine: Toward a Sociology of Work Time , 1999 .

[7]  R. Cooper Third‐Generation New Product Processes , 1994 .

[8]  R. Hogarth,et al.  Ambiguity and Uncertainty in Probabilistic Inference. , 1985 .

[9]  Peter M. Senge,et al.  Modeling For Learning Organizations , 1994 .

[10]  D. Wilemon,et al.  Accelerating the Development of Technology-Based New Products , 1990 .

[11]  John Preston,et al.  Winning at New Products , 1988 .

[12]  R. Cooper,et al.  An Investigation into the New Product Process: Steps, Deficiencies, and Impact , 1986 .

[13]  Anthony M. Armocida The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , 1992 .

[14]  R. Cooper Perspective third-generation new product processes , 1994 .

[15]  J. Sterman Business Dynamics , 2000 .

[16]  H. Arkes,et al.  The Psychology of Sunk Cost , 1985 .

[17]  R. Cooper,et al.  New Product Portfolio Management: Practices and Performance , 1999 .

[18]  P. Senge The fifth discipline : the art and practice of the learning organization/ Peter M. Senge , 1991 .

[19]  A. Tversky,et al.  Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases , 1974, Science.

[20]  J. Sterman Learning in and about complex systems , 1994 .

[21]  B. M. Staw The Escalation of Commitment To a Course of Action , 1981 .

[22]  Nelson P. Repenning,et al.  Why Firefighting Is Never Enough: Preserving High-Quality Product , 2001 .

[23]  Paul S. Adler,et al.  From project to process management: an empirically-based framework for analyzing product development time , 1995 .

[24]  Willard I. Zangwill,et al.  Lightning strategies for innovation : how the world's best firms create new products , 1993 .

[25]  Barry M. Staw,et al.  Knee-deep in the Big Muddy: A study of escalating commitment to a chosen course of action. , 1976 .

[26]  Erling Moxnes Not Only the Tragedy of the Commons: Misperceptions of Bioeconomics , 1998 .

[27]  Steven C. Wheelwright,et al.  Revolutionizing Product Development: Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency and Quality , 1992 .

[28]  A. Griffin PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CYCLE TIME FOR BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS PRODUCTS , 2002 .

[29]  G. Easton,et al.  The Effects of Total Quality Management on Corporate Performance: An Empirical Investigation , 1998 .

[30]  Charles H. Fine,et al.  Time Versus Market Orientation in Product Concept Development: Empirically-Based Theory Generation , 1997 .

[31]  A. Griffin PDMA Research on New Product Development Practices: Updating Trends and Benchmarking Best Practices , 1997 .

[32]  Nelson P. Repenning,et al.  Getting quality the old-fashioned way : self confirming attributions in the dynamics of process improvement , 1997 .

[33]  R. Cooper,et al.  New Products: What Separates Winners from Losers? , 1987 .