Track: Production Planning and Management

Abstract

The study presents an attempt to evaluate the significance of industrial new product development idea generation capability supported through the concepts of transformational leadership, strategic thinking, and organizational innovation to harness new product development stage and gate process, in a multinational scenario. The current research survey is conducted at three selected work locations; The UK, Norway and Finland, having obvious differences in terms of product scope, product’s nature and size, manufacturing requirements, customer base as well as the involved stakeholders i.e. energy solutions, marine solutions, environmental sustainability solutions, respectively. The results of the study confirmed clear requirement to adopt more than one flexible stage gate models to offer focused NPD approach, focused and well defined industrial working processes, less wastage of resources (i.e. time, money, and expert skill potential etc.) as well as operational accuracy, control and accountability.