Innovation Research Themes for Our Changing Environment: Insights from the 2019 PDMA Doctoral Consortium

Rindfleisch, Aric; Mehta, Ravi; Sachdev, Vishal; Danienta, Nadia

doi:10.1111/jpim.12518

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“…As Rindfleisch et al () point out in their essay, the PDMA consortium has been held in a fairly regular rhythm beginning in 2011 followed by gatherings in 2014, 2017, and 2019. Plans are to continue on at least a biannual basis going forward.…”

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“…This issue begins with an insightful essay by Rindfleisch, Mehta, Sachdev, and Danienta () who, with their colleagues and institution, generously hosted the 2019 Product Development & Management Association (PDMA) Doctoral Consortium at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign. They have used insights from that gathering as a springboard to collect additional data that help to illuminate key emerging research topics for JPIM and innovation scholars.…”

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From the Editors: Reflecting on the Value of a Doctoral Consortium

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2020

J of Product Innov Manag

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From the Editors: Reflecting on the Value of a Doctoral Consortium

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2020

J of Product Innov Manag

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“…Industry 4.0 technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D printing are currently disrupting our economy and transforming the manner in which firms engage in innovation management (e.g., Rindfleisch et al, 2020). To remain competitive in this new environment, firms are seeking to leverage these technologies to develop innovative new products and accelerate their speed of innovation (Davenport et al, 2020; Milan et al, 2020; Ojha et al, 2020).…”

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Enhancing innovation via the digital twin

Fukawa

Rindfleisch

2023

J of Product Innov Manag

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A growing number of firms are seeking to leverage emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D printing, to enhance their innovation efforts. These seemingly distinct technologies are currently coalescing into an encompassing new technology called the digital twin. This technology allows innovative firms to create a digital replica of a physical entity that evolves over its life cycle. This article explores the implications of the digital twin for innovation theory and practice. First, we examine the connection between the digital twin and three related technologies (i.e., 3D printing, big data, and AI).Second, we create a typology of four categories of digital twins (i.e., monitoring, making, enhancing, and replicating) and illustrate their relevance for innovation management. Third, we offer a set of four case studies that exemplify this typology and illustrate how digital twins have been put into practice. Fourth, we craft a set of digital twin-related future research directions that encompasses a broad range of innovation-related topics, including service innovation, co-creation, and product design. We hope that our examination of the digital twin serves as a catalyst to help advance innovation thought and practice in this intriguing new domain.

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“…First, as a crucial step toward delineating the existing definitions and descriptive elements of smart products, a cross‐disciplinary systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted (Barczak, 2017; Webster and Watson, 2002). Similar to other novel domains that have benefitted from SLRs such as business models (e.g., Li, 2018), business model innovation (e.g., Foss and Saebi, 2017), or design thinking (e.g., Micheli, Wilner, Bhatti, Mura, and Beverland, 2018), a rigorous review of the literature on smart products helps to grasp the whole of this multifaceted and interdisciplinary concept (Rindfleisch, Mehta, Sachdev, and Danienta, 2020). Second, a supplementary bibliometric analysis was performed to provide structural insights into the evolution of different conceptualizations of smart products (Palmatier, Houston, and Hulland, 2018).…”

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Smart Products: Conceptual Review, Synthesis, and Research Directions*

Raff¹,

Wentzel²,

Obwegeser³

2020

J of Product Innov Manag

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Smart products have received increasing attention from researchers and practitioners alike. One limitation of the existing literature, however, is that the term is often used as a blanket term and that there is no consensus on what a smart product actually is. Because different studies rely on differing conceptualizations, the current body of knowledge is scattered and lacks a uniform language and conceptual boundaries. Specifically, existing research has subsumed inherently different products under one collective term, has relied on a multitude of ad hoc criteria to define smart products or has conflated smart products with the services they render and/or the wider ecosystem, in which they operate. These developments limit the systematic advancement of the field and impede the integration of the smart product concept into related concepts such as the Internet of Things. To address these issues, this article provides an extensive analysis of the status quo of the field, with the goal of developing a common language and comprehensive conceptualization of smart products. First, existing studies on smart products were systematically reviewed across contributing disciplines and supplemented with a bibliometric analysis that allowed for a deeper understanding of the smart product concept within and across disciplines. This analysis revealed an initial set of 16 capability-based criteria that are currently applied to conceptualize smart products. Second, based on a systematic coding procedure, these criteria were synthesized and organized within a comprehensive framework delineating four distinct product archetypes for the digital age: (1) Digital, (2) Connected, (3) Responsive, and (4) Intelligent. Third, three major conceptual themes that arise from this framework are identified and possibilities for future research are pointed out. In sum, this work contributes to the literature by improving the understanding of smart products as an epistemic object and by laying the ground for more cumulative research endeavors. Practitioner Points • The analysis can be used to navigate in the areas of smart products and IoT as well as to leverage a firm's internal understanding of what smart products are and how smart products can be conceptualized as distinct archetypes. • The proposed framework can help to understand how physical and virtual components of a product have to be orchestrated to perform certain functions and services and which requirements need to be fulfilled to lift a product to a more advanced level. • Practitioners may use the framework to decompose value creation at the level of components and functions in order to develop an optimal architecture of a smart product's hardware and software as well as to derive effective pricing models.

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Innovation Research Themes for Our Changing Environment: Insights from the 2019 PDMA Doctoral Consortium

Cited by 11 publications

References 99 publications

From the Editors: Reflecting on the Value of a Doctoral Consortium

From the Editors: Reflecting on the Value of a Doctoral Consortium

Enhancing innovation via the digital twin

Smart Products: Conceptual Review, Synthesis, and Research Directions*

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