2.4.1 Booz, Allen and Hamilton’s Model
The BAH model for NPD process recognizes following stages as represented in the figure below and followed by a basic explanation.
a) New Product Strategy: The first stage needs to define a concept of the strategy on which the ideas of the new product should be based on. The strategy could be targeting a specific market or customer segment which the new product will create value for.
b) Idea Generation: The second stage invites relevant ideas which could be relevant in line with strategy decided in the first step.
c) Screening: The screening phase should compare the ideas generated based on their values proposed and the ideas which are worth further research should be selected based on merit.
d) Business
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Bhuiyan (2011) has restricted the BAH model which it is based on to 5 stages instead of seven. It is a very detailed model as compared to the BAH model defining critical performance metrics for each stage. The stages are similar to BAH model following the logical understanding of an NPD process. The Bhuiyan’s model in now discussed step by step with the CSFs for each stage.
a) New Product Strategy (NPS): Apart from recognizing that the first step for every NPD process is to define a strategy for the product, Bhuiyan (2011) also suggests certain metrics and procedures which will allow companies to go through this step correctly. Bhuiyan (2011) suggests at looking at an expected ROI which the management is targeting by investing in the project before going forward with it. The expectations should be clearly communicated across all departments. Bhuiyan (2011) backs this point by quoting Cooper & Kleinschmidt (1995) which claims that companies which define expectations clearly to their teams, have a 32% higher success rates in their NPD projects. Bhuiyan (2011) also suggests using a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) approach to link the financial objectives with the corporate strategy. BSC is a popular tool developed by authors Kaplan and Norton in 1996. “The scorecard measures organizational performance drivers across four perspectives which provide its framework: financial, customers, internal business processes and learning and growth” (Bhuiyan, 2011).
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Idea generation is the most critical stage as generally firms do not have a lot of ideas to evaluate. Booz et. al. (1982) say that a firm has to generate at least 7 ideas to generate one successful idea. Griffin (1997) conducted quantitative study on the success of new product ideas and found that only 15.2 successful ideas are generated per 100 ideas evaluated. Given this low success rate of new ideas, Bhuiyan (2011) suggests definite customer involvement in the idea generation phase via feedbacks, surveys or personal interviews. Bhuiyan (2011) finds that only customer involvement can increase the likelihood of NPD project success. Customer feedbacks and surveys are a good way of knowing the exact customer needs to shape your value proposition when end customers are concerned. But there are several business to business (B2B) industries which are so competitive that the business customers are not comfortable in sharing ideas or co-creating strategies for NPD. This leaves firms with their own intelligence and creativity to develop new ideas for value
On the issue how to link his idea to his organization or business, Kerr simply collected and gained quick feedback and recommendation about how to present or make use of the idea or creativity to his sixty-five top executives in GE; he would assessed and examined his idea with his top management team first before link it to GE (Davenport et al). Davenport, Prusak & Wilson (2003) analyzed and claimed that getting instant comment or criticism is very critical and vital for a idea, as Kerr in his interview argued: “Gaining quick feedback and translating it into action and results is what advocating ideas is all about” (p. 207). In strategic planning, management must measure or evaluate the courses of idea and creativity or development and expansion to ensure they obtain the best and maximum returns from platforms (Davenport). In ideas and organizational management, feedback, criticism and suggestion not only could turn or develop into the guidance, objective and direction or target and focus of innova...
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...g the project as performance measurement. A senior management team that does not let known about the importance of the balanced scorecard to the employees of the company sends the message that this is not a high priority. Employees viewing the balanced scorecard as a low priority does not communicate the importance of the balanced scorecard to the rest of the company send the message that this is not a high importance. Hence, this will backfires the strategy implementation due to the lack of senior management commitment.
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