Virtual R&D Teams

Virtual R&D Teams

SMEs and Virtual R&D Teams: A Motive Channel for Relationship between SMEs

Virtual R&D Teams

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SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review

A global New Product Development Team was launched by a major software development company with an aggressive completion date as well as specific performance expectations driven by the market. Though it took the team several months to effectively share ideas, information, and know-how, its work was pretty much on track for the targeted delivery date.

Virtual Teams: A Literature Review

Proposal of a model for effective management and development of virtual teams Petr Skyrik Abstract The main aim of this paper is to present a pilot proposal of a model of “Virtual Development Management System” (ViDeMaS) which will facilitate more effective management and development of virtual teams. Management and development of virtual teams is not a simple concept. It comprises a body of knowledge from a number of fields and scientific disciplines. The complexity of the koncept may not be simplified as it is absolutely essential for full understanding of its nature. In order to gain better orientation in the concept, different perspectives will be used in the description of the model, which will enable us to achieve the goal of the work and to present the main results of the work (creation of a model for Virtual Development Management System). The present paper thus describes from different perspectives the proposal of a sufficiently detailed and complex model that may be utilized both on theoretical and application level.

How Social Media Has Changed the Workplace [Study]

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as an engine for economic growth all over the world and especially for developing countries. During the past decade, new product development (NPD) has increasingly been recognized as a critical factor in ensuring the continued survival of SMEs. On the other hand, the rapid rate of market and technological changes has accelerated in the past decade, so this turbulent environment requires new methods and techniques to bring successful new products to the marketplace. Virtual team can be a solution to answer the requested demand. However, literature have shown no significant differences between traditional NPD and virtual NPD in general, whereas NPD in SME’s virtual team has not been systematically investigated in developing countries. This paper aims to bridge this gap by first reviewing the NPD and its relationship with virtuality and then identifies the critical factors of NPD in virtual teams. The statistical method was utilized to perform the required analysis of data from the survey. The results were achieved through factor analysis at the perspective of NPD in some Malaysian and Iranian manufacturing firms (N = 191). The 20 new product development factors were grouped into five higher level constructs. It gives valuable insight and guidelines, which hopefully will help managers of firms in developing countries to consider the main factors in NPD.

Nader Ale Ebrahim

Virtual R & D teams in small and medium enterprises: A literature ...Scientific Research and Essays Vol. 4 (13) , pp. 1575-1590, December, 2009 Available online at http: //www. academic journals. org/SRE ISSN 1992-2248 © 2009 Academic Journals ...

Nader Ale Ebrahim University of Malaya

Nader Ale Ebrahim University of Malaya

Nader Ale Ebrahim University of Malaya

Nader Ale Ebrahim

نادر آل ابراهيم

27. Virtual Teams for New Product Development – An Innovative PDF EbookVirtual R&D teams may reduce time-to- market, make available a large pool of new product know-how and provide greater flexibilities which are the key ... This article presents the type of virtual teams and their main features and explains how virtual R&D .........

Nader Ale Ebrahim

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Virtual R&D Teams and SMEs Growth: A Comparative Study Between Iranian and Malaysian SMEs African Journal of Business Management, Vol. 4, No. 11, pp. 2368-2379, September 2010 Nader Ale Ebrahim , Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering , University of Malaya (UM) and Zahari Taha Date Posted: October 9, 2010 Last Revised: October 14, 2010 Accepted Paper Series 19 downloads

SMEs and Virtual R&D Teams: A Motive Channel for Relationship between SMEs International Conference for Technical Postgraduates, December 2009 Nader Ale Ebrahim University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering Date Posted: December 20, 2010 Accepted Paper Series 4 downloads Virtual R&D Teams: A Potential Growth of Education-Industry Collaboration