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Practice of CSFs for the Pre-Development Process in New Product Innovation Processes at SMEs: Questionnaire Development

Today, many organizations have realized an important of pre-development process in order to compete with competitor through drastically introduce new product in the market. In view of that, understanding critical factors that contribute to successful pre-development process implementation is becomin...

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Main Authors: Abu, Noor Hidayah, Deros, B.M., Abd Wahab, Dzuraidah, Ab Rahman, Mohd Nizam
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Published: Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland 2011
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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spelling my.uum.repo.316882024-12-19T13:52:43Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31688/ Practice of CSFs for the Pre-Development Process in New Product Innovation Processes at SMEs: Questionnaire Development Abu, Noor Hidayah Deros, B.M. Abd Wahab, Dzuraidah Ab Rahman, Mohd Nizam HD28 Management. Industrial Management Today, many organizations have realized an important of pre-development process in order to compete with competitor through drastically introduce new product in the market. In view of that, understanding critical factors that contribute to successful pre-development process implementation is becoming the more important. However, most of past studies were conducted in large organization, very little has been done in small and medium enterprise (SMEs). SMEs have certain limitation in terms of theirfinancial, human, technical, and resources that could hinder their progress towards implementing predevelopment process. This paper reviews and analyses CSFs developed by previous authors in order to propose a set of CSFs which were thought to be critical for SMEs. After that the questionnaire developed in this study will be analysis using factors analysis and reliability test in order to examine construct validity and reliability. An initial draft of the questionnaire was developed based on the literature. The questionnaire was pre-tested by academicians and industry practitioners. After that the questionnaire was piloted at 55 food and beverage manufacturing SMEs to check its reliability by using Cronbach’s alpha value. In addition, principle component analysis was carried out to test the construct validity. All the factors in the survey instrument had a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of more than 0.7 which may be considered satisfactory. Through factor analysis, all KMO values were found above acceptable value of 0.50. All Bartlett’s Test in this analysis was found to be significant. Therefore the instrument is valid and reliable and considered as satisfactory. Nine CSFs, which are believed suitable for SMEs have been proposed in this paper. Through systematic identification and validation, it is hope that the set of CSFs could be used as guides for SMEs to implement pre-development process successfully Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31688/1/AMR%20314-316%202318-2323%202021.pdf Abu, Noor Hidayah and Deros, B.M. and Abd Wahab, Dzuraidah and Ab Rahman, Mohd Nizam (2011) Practice of CSFs for the Pre-Development Process in New Product Innovation Processes at SMEs: Questionnaire Development. Advanced Materials Research, 314. pp. 2318-2323. ISSN 1662-8985 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288311753_Practice_of_CSFs_for_the_Pre-Development_Process_in_New_Product_Innovation_Processes_at_SMEs_Questionnaire_Development
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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Abu, Noor Hidayah
Deros, B.M.
Abd Wahab, Dzuraidah
Ab Rahman, Mohd Nizam
Practice of CSFs for the Pre-Development Process in New Product Innovation Processes at SMEs: Questionnaire Development
description Today, many organizations have realized an important of pre-development process in order to compete with competitor through drastically introduce new product in the market. In view of that, understanding critical factors that contribute to successful pre-development process implementation is becoming the more important. However, most of past studies were conducted in large organization, very little has been done in small and medium enterprise (SMEs). SMEs have certain limitation in terms of theirfinancial, human, technical, and resources that could hinder their progress towards implementing predevelopment process. This paper reviews and analyses CSFs developed by previous authors in order to propose a set of CSFs which were thought to be critical for SMEs. After that the questionnaire developed in this study will be analysis using factors analysis and reliability test in order to examine construct validity and reliability. An initial draft of the questionnaire was developed based on the literature. The questionnaire was pre-tested by academicians and industry practitioners. After that the questionnaire was piloted at 55 food and beverage manufacturing SMEs to check its reliability by using Cronbach’s alpha value. In addition, principle component analysis was carried out to test the construct validity. All the factors in the survey instrument had a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of more than 0.7 which may be considered satisfactory. Through factor analysis, all KMO values were found above acceptable value of 0.50. All Bartlett’s Test in this analysis was found to be significant. Therefore the instrument is valid and reliable and considered as satisfactory. Nine CSFs, which are believed suitable for SMEs have been proposed in this paper. Through systematic identification and validation, it is hope that the set of CSFs could be used as guides for SMEs to implement pre-development process successfully
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author Abu, Noor Hidayah
Deros, B.M.
Abd Wahab, Dzuraidah
Ab Rahman, Mohd Nizam
author_facet Abu, Noor Hidayah
Deros, B.M.
Abd Wahab, Dzuraidah
Ab Rahman, Mohd Nizam
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title Practice of CSFs for the Pre-Development Process in New Product Innovation Processes at SMEs: Questionnaire Development
title_short Practice of CSFs for the Pre-Development Process in New Product Innovation Processes at SMEs: Questionnaire Development
title_full Practice of CSFs for the Pre-Development Process in New Product Innovation Processes at SMEs: Questionnaire Development
title_fullStr Practice of CSFs for the Pre-Development Process in New Product Innovation Processes at SMEs: Questionnaire Development
title_full_unstemmed Practice of CSFs for the Pre-Development Process in New Product Innovation Processes at SMEs: Questionnaire Development
title_sort practice of csfs for the pre-development process in new product innovation processes at smes: questionnaire development
publisher Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland
publishDate 2011
url https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31688/1/AMR%20314-316%202318-2323%202021.pdf
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