Harnessing New Product Development Processes through Strategic Thinking Initiatives

Abstract

This paper evaluates the role of strategic thinking to support multinational organization's new product development initiatives. Furthermore, it emphases how organizational commitment to empower its work team's leadership capability can be highlighted in the form of weak areas through specialized survey. The research outcomes highlighted the gaps in the subject organization's NPD initiatives through drawing attention to the grey areas present in the overall corporate strategic leadership environment of its three targeted work locations (i.e. Finland, the UK, and -Norway). Such areas include the potential of the company's internal communication system, data collection and record keeping capability, management's approach to the potential of new idea generation and employees' empowerment. The referred areas are directly linked to the subject company's new product development strategy, corporate initiatives and operational growth.

Motives and Role of Religiosity towards Consumer Purchase Behavior in Western Imported Food Products

“…Hence, it is particularly interesting to investigate the Pakistani Muslim consumer's motives behind the purchase of western imported food products and the role of religiosity in determining their purchase behavior. The reasons for this behavior have scarcely been studied in prior research and yet there is an opportunity to explore the factors mentioned above for the western imported food products in a Muslim dominated country like Pakistan [15][16][17][18][19]. This research proposes an essential contribution to the field of Muslim consumer's behavior, and it also adds value to the literature on consumer behavior by employing a model wherein the single conceptual framework tests the elements, based on the theory of planned behavior.…”

Exploring Managers' Skills Affecting Dynamic-Innovative Capabilities and Performance in New Normal Era

“…Someone might never have constructed such new things before, or probably someone has generated them, but they re-improved by extending from the previous ones. The one who created it realized the productivity was different from others and expected it to be widely accepted [14,15].…”

“…Therefore, for a relationship of Professional Skills that will affect Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Performance, the HR managers must create the connection as an Organizational Alliance. The managers must uphold the principle of connection creation by transferring news and information to personnel at every level to get mutual perceptions towards the organizational information [15]. Managing the system of news and information perception is beneficial in terms of viewing the images of the organization in the same direction and being able to answer questions from others [16].…”