User driven product development: Creating a User-Involving Culture

by Kristina Risom Jespersen

Overview

User-driven product development is the art of interacting with users in all stages of the innovation process. The quest for user-driven product development creates a collaborative mindset of user-involvement in new product projects. Users are to be regarded as valuable, knowledgeable and innovative resources to product development. The book starts with the design elements of a user-involving product development culture. Based on this, managers and students are invited to study the complexity and challenges of performing user-driven product development in organizations. The significant mechanisms of user-driven product development are described and discussed in detail and through generous use of examples and cases. The main themes of the book are: * The framework of user-driven product development * Information competences demanded by user-driven product development * How to collaborate with users about new product projects * The user-interacting potential of information and web technologies

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788759313374
Publisher:	Samfundslitteratur
Publication date:	10/03/2008
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.50(d)