Managing Innovation in Highly Restrictive Environments

✍ Scribed by Guillermo Cortés-Robles, Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz, Giner Alor-Hernández

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Series: Management and Industrial Engineering
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents the integration of new tools, the modification of existing tools, and the combination of different tools and approaches to create new technical resources for assisting the innovation process. It describes the efforts deployed for assisting the transformation of Product-Services Systems and explains the main key success factors or drivers for success of each tool or approach applied to solve an innovation problems. The book presents a set of case studies to illustrate the application of several tools and approaches, mainly in developing countries.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Against the Odds. Innovation in Latin American SMEs (Jorge Rodriguez-Martinez)....Pages 1-33
Use of Lean-Sigma as a Problem-Solving Method in a Restrictive Environment (Noé Alba-Baena, Francisco Estrada-Orantes, Christian Valenzuela-Reyes)....Pages 35-57
Creation of Technology-Based Companies: Challenges to Innovate in the Manufacturing Sector of Medical Devices, the Case of Baja California, México (Karina C. Arredondo-Soto, Teresa Carrillo-Gutiérrez, Marcela Solís-Quinteros, Luis A. Ávila-López)....Pages 59-80
Applying Action Research to Academic Patent-Licensing Path (Daniel Barrón-Pastor, Norma García-Calderón, Julio Alcantar)....Pages 81-97
Mass Customization Process in Companies from the Housing Sector in Brazil (D. C. Fettermann, G. L. Tortorella, Carlos M. Taboada)....Pages 99-118
A Talent Management Model for Innovation and Competitiveness in Complex Domains: A Case Study in the Latin American Energy Sector (Yasmín Hernández, Ramón Zatarain, Lucía Barrón)....Pages 119-142
The Role of ICT in Educational Innovation (Pedro García-Alcaraz, Valeria Martínez-Loya, Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz, Cuauhtémoc Sánchez-Ramírez)....Pages 143-165
A Series of Recommendations for Industrial Design Conceptualizing Based on Emotional Design (David Cortés Sáenz, Carlos Eduardo Díaz Domínguez, Pere Llorach-Massana, Ainoa Abella García, Juan Luis Hernández Arellano)....Pages 167-185
Indexing and Mapping Examples of Heuristics Compiled from TRIZ (Emanuela L. Silveira, Marco A. de Carvalho, Júlio C. de Carvalho)....Pages 187-206
The Use of Affective Computing in the Conceptual Design Stage of New Products (Agustín Job Hernández-Montes, Guillermo Cortés-Robles, Giner Alor-Hernández, Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz)....Pages 207-228
Taking Advantage of the Innovation in Die Service Design (María Blanca Becerra-Rodríguez, Diana Jiménez-Juan, Arturo Hernández-Hernández, Ángel Adad Franco-Baltazar, José Marcos Zea-Pérez, Isabel Ernestina López-Navarro)....Pages 229-246
TRIZ Evolution Trends as an Approach for Predicting the Future Development of the Technological Systems in the Food Industry (Jesus-Manuel Barragan-Ferrer, Stéphane Negny, Jonas Damasius, Diana Barragan-Ferrer, Dalia Cizeikiene)....Pages 247-277
A Service Design Process Based on the Business Model CANVAS and the C-K Theory (Sergio E. Castillo-López, Sheyla K. Flores Guirao, Eduardo Roldán-Reyes, Aidé A. Maldonado Macias, Diego Manotas Duque)....Pages 279-301
Integration of Design Thinking and TRIZ Theory to Assist a User in the Formulation of an Innovation Project (Hugo Domingo García-Manilla, Jesús Delgado-Maciel, Diego Tlapa-Mendoza, Yolanda Angélica Báez-López, Leonardo Riverda-Cadavid)....Pages 303-327

✦ Subjects

Engineering; Industrial and Production Engineering; Innovation/Technology Management; Engineering Design