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Associated projects

In addition to projects administrered by CINet there are also various international projects in which a significant number of CINet members are involved. These projects are:

• IMSS Survey

Every four years major institutions around the world team up to conduct a comprehensive study of manufacturing. The 2005 study, IMSS Fourth Round, is now underway. As a non-profit making network, IMSS plays a major role in helping companies to:

• Conceptualize and identify those manufacturing management policies and practices which best achieve the strategic objectives of the companies.
• Create the possibility of performing comparative analyses of manufacturing strategies in the assembly industry at national and international levels, and of studying a series of specific hypotheses in the same context.
• Establish criteria for the introduction of best practices as well as their level of transferability and adaptability to different environments.
• Enable participating companies to make their own comparative analyses, using their sectorial, national and international benchmarks.
• Encourage communication between participating companies and schools on a national level, with regard to specific manufacturing management aspects which directly affect these companies.

More information can be found on the IMSS website.

• Discontinuous Innovation Project (DIP)

The main objective of the DIP (Discontinuous Innovation Project) is to contribute to strengthen innovation capabilities for discontinuous innovation. The suggestion is to do this by piloting a concrete setup for companies to learn and share experience on discontinuous innovation. From an innovation policy point of view, the project will offer a way to facilitate a process of partly bottom-up company driven knowledge sharing and action, based on mutual interests among diverse network partners. It is an attempt to integrate innovation assessment, create policy and trigger action in one process.

The project is part of a wider collaborative project initiated by Professor John Bessant Imperial College, London, UK. The UK project has its own funding (Advanced Institute of Management (AIM). The wider project will includes 50-75 service and manufacturing companies, 10-15 from each country (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, UK, and Germany). Plans have been made for an Australian pilot as well.

• Patterns in NPD

"Patterns in NPD" is an emergent European research project aimed at developing knowledge in the new product development area, by describing, exploring and analysing the organisation of the innovation journey. At present the project involves Dutch, Finnish, Portuguese, Belgian, Spanish, German, Australian, Turkish, Norwegian, Danish and Slovak researchers. The project is based on the assumption that an in-depth, holistic understanding of the relationships between NPD purposes and activities, organisation and situational factors, and its impact on performance, will contribute to the identification of consistent configurations in NPD. The project sets out to describe a large number and variety of NPD configurations (organisational forms) in relation to their environment and purposes (functions), and relate these to performance.

If you want to have your project listed as well, please contact Jeannette Visser or Prof. Paul Hyland.