Juite Wang

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at National Chung Hsing University

Technology convergence (TC), in which technological innovation occurs by integrating at least two or more existing technologies into hybrid technologies, has been a growing innovation pattern in recent decades. Facing substantial and accelerated technological changes, it is important for technology-based firms to identify TC patterns in pursuing co...

With the rapid changes in the global business environment, enterprises face many risks for their supply chains. The development of blockchain technology (BCT), an emerging technology, could transform supply chain activities and provides an opportunity to mitigate supply chain risks (SCRs). However, there is a lack of guidance on this issue. Therefo...

For improving innovation and business performance, developing a robust knowledge management (KM) strategy is a pivotal step for firms. Still, literature pertinent to strategic knowledge management system alignment (SKMSA) is largely lacking and, unfortunately, offers a limited understanding of how SKMSA affects firms’ business performance. Thus, th...

Mobile payment (m-payment) can be considered as a two-sided platform that delivers payment services for mobile devices. Its penetration still faces high barriers in some countries, such as existing consumer payment behavior on traditional payment methods and fragmented merchant acceptance. This research aims to develop an empirical data-driven simu...

Purpose Smart manufacturing can lead to disruptive changes in production technologies and business models in the manufacturing industry. This paper aims to identify technological topics in smart manufacturing by using patent data, investigating technological trends and exploring potential opportunities. Design/methodology/approach The latent Diric...

Early opportunity identification is critical for technology-based firms seeking to develop technology or product strategies for competitive advantage in the future. This research develops a patent mining approach based on the novelty detection statistical technique to identify unusual patents that may provide a fresh idea for potential opportunitie...

The emergence of collaborative information technology/systems (IT/IS) has profoundly influenced new product development (NPD) performance. However, the convenient e-collaboration functions/services delivered by collaborative IT/IS have not been received equal attention in academia and industry. Consequently, scholars and managers have only a limite...

The success of Apple's App Store has motivated many mobile network operators (MNOs) to embrace the application store. However, finding a successful strategy that provides meaningful differentiation in an increasingly competitive mobile application market is a great challenge for MNOs. This research treats the mobile application service as a two-sid...

An innovative R&D project that creates a great business opportunity usually involves high technological and market uncertainty. It is easy to see that developing only one solution approach in the R&D project is too risky. The selectionism or the parallel development strategy can be applied to construct an innovation funnel that increases the flexib...

With the rapid advances in information technology (IT) in last few decades, software development has become a high-growth industry. While the software development process is an extremely complicated, iterative, unpredictable, knowledge-intensive, as well as an expensive process, a supportive collaborative information system (CIS) is indispensible f...

The collaborative work of team members has become a common occurrence in software development projects. Collaborative information systems (CIS), designed to facilitate and support teamwork, appear critical for software project success. However, the quality and convenience of the services and functions delivered by CIS have not received robust atten...

The increasing uncertainty in technology and market trends makes it difficult for technology firms to capture emerging opportunities. This paper develops an R&D planning framework based on the real options analysis to identify, develop and evaluate technological opportunities. The developed methodology can encourage R&D organizations to proactively...

With the significant evolution of computer technologies, simulation has become a more realistic and effective experiential learning tool to assist in organizational training. Although simulation-based training can improve the effectiveness of training for company employees, there are still many management challenges that need to be overcome. This p...

As Taiwan society ages, the demand for the cloud healthcare services is rising, particularly among middle-aged and elderly patients, since it enables people to live independently and easily access healthcare services. However, the literature directly related to middle-aged and elderly patients’ attitudes toward cloud healthcare services is scant. T...

This paper aims to develop a service value network analysis approach based on system dynamics (SD) for analyzing the feedback structures that causes dynamic behavior of service value networks for value co-creation. The proposed approach defines the network objectives, identifies network actors and their interactions, builds SD models, conducts mode...

Incorporating managerial flexibility in an innovative R&D project is important, because managers face greater uncertainty in today's competitive and dynamic changing environment. It is essential to bring managerial flexibility into R&D project planning to decrease technical and market risk and increase potential market value. The objective of this...

Uncertainty is one of the major inherent difficulties for R&D, especially for innovative R&D projects. The objective of this paper is to develop a flexible decision making methodology based on the real option concept to improve development flexibility for R&D projects. The proposed methodology identifies potential risks that may occur during R&D, r...

a b s t r a c t Uncertainty is one of the major inherent difficulties in developing innovative products, due to their highly dynamic markets and technologies. The presence of a large degree of uncertainty leads to high R&D risks, resulting in many R&D failures. Therefore, it is important to manage R&D risks through all R&D stages to improve R&D pro...

Faster time-to-market for new products is important for hi-tech corporations to gain premium pricing and higher sales volume. An activity overlapping strategy is a frequently used technique in practice for quicker product launch. However, complex interaction patterns between components and activities increase the chance of unanticipated iterations...

Making R&D portfolio decision is difficult, because long lead times of R&D and market and technology dynamics lead to unavailable and unreliable collected data for portfolio management. The objective of this research is to develop a fuzzy R&D portfolio selection model to hedge against the R&D uncertainty. Fuzzy set theory is applied to model uncert...

This paper models supply chain (SC) uncertainties by fuzzy sets and develops a possibilistic SC configuration model for new products with unreliable or unavailable SC statistical data. The supply chain is modeled as a network of stages. Each stage may have one or more options characterized by the cost and lead-time required to fulfill required func...

Due to reducing product life cycle and increasing product complexity, design chain management has become more important for industries to develop innovative products within a shorter lead-time. Selecting the design chain partners that is a key determinant of co-development success involves multiple selection criteria and constraints that are either...

In today's changing marketplace, accurate project planning and scheduling for product development becomes difficult. It is important for an R&D organization to quickly recognize the impact of unexpected events and rapidly reschedule product development projects. In addition, it has become more important for a firm to meet the due date requirement f...

Managing a supply chain (SC) is very difficult, since various sources of uncertainty and complex interrelationships between various entities exist in the SC. Moreover, the reducing product life cycle and the heightened expectations of customers have also made the SC even harder to manage, especially for innovative products. Although the innovative...

Product development has become a focus of competition in many industries. Due to decreasing product life cycle, it is important to reduce the time and cost of product development. The product development process includes six main phases: product planning, concept development, system-level design, detailed design, testing and refinement, and product...

Outsourcing more of the design and production than before, manufacturers increasingly take on the role of systems integrators and collaborate with "design chain" partners to bring a new product to market. The purpose of this paper is to provide a preliminary study that applies the concept of activity overlapping to accelerate design chain activitie...

The Internet and World Wide Web offer an additional channel for consumers to find, select, and buy products. However, unlike shopping in the traditional store, consumers have no direct contact with human clerks to get the required information in the electronic store. The objective of this paper is to propose a fuzzy constraint satisfaction approach...

Efficient scheduling of a product development project is difficult, since a development project is usually unique in nature and high level of design imprecision exists at the early stages of product development. Moreover, risk-averse project managers are often more interested in estimating the risk of a schedule being late over all potential realiz...

Selection of configuration items in software configuration management is important to determine the software quality and reduce the development time and cost. The objective of this research is to develop a multi-criteria group decision making model based on fuzzy set theory to improve the configuration items selection process. Since most informatio...

The efficient management of product development projects is important to reduce the required development time and cost. However, each project is unique in nature and the duration of activities involved in a project often cannot be predicted accurately. The uncertainty of activity duration may lead to incorrect scheduling decisions. The objective of...

Conceptual design is important in producing a successful product, because a poor design concept can rarely be compensated for at the later design stages. Pugh's concept selection method has been widely used in industries to help designers to select promising design concepts. However, experience shows that many designers feel uncomfortable with adop...

The conceptual design evaluation is important, since the poor selection of a design concept can rarely be compensated at later design stages. Due to subjective and incomplete design information collected at the early design stage, it is difficult to select the “best” design concepts from a number of alternatives. To tackle this problem, an outranki...

Industries need to effectively manage their product development processes to reduce the product development time and cost. Due to incomplete design information at the early stage of product development, the duration of each activity is difficult to estimate accurately. The objective of this research is to develop a methodology to schedule product d...

Identification of important design requirements for product development is critical because it leads to successful products with shorter development time. The quality function deployment (QFD) is a tool to help the product development team systematically determine the design requirements for developing a product with higher customer satisfaction. H...

The task of design evaluation in conceptual design is important, since a poor selection of design concept can rarely be compensated at later design stages. At that stage, it is difficult to determine the 'best' design alternatives, because information collected is too subjective or too incomplete to make a judgment. In this paper, the imprecise pre...

Problems in engineering design are constraint-oriented and often involve multiple perspectives. Designers must consider not only functional requirements of a product but also its life-cycle perspectives. Each perspective has its own set of constraints which may contain conflicting or unsatisfied requirements. A human designer can not be aware of al...

The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for analyzing and improving design processes. The methodology presented uses a directed graph and the corresponding incidence matrix to represent a design process or the relationship between constraints and variables in a design problem. A qualitative analysis approach (critical analysis and con...

The development of IDEF tools for modeling and analysis of processes has been motivated by the desire to increase productivity by improving communication and structure of manufacturing systems. Constructing an IDEF model is only one component of a comprehensive process modeling effort. Representing IDEF models as process graphs, performing observat...

Concurrent design may shorten the duration of a design project, reduce cost, and improve quality of the final design. However, due to the diversified problem-solving knowledge and different goal setting between design agents, it may increase the number of conflicts and make the project more difficult to manage. In this article, a goal-directed nego...

Concurrent design should result in reduction of the duration of a design project, cost reduction, and better quality of the final design; however, it may increase the complexity of the design process and make it more difficult to manage. In this paper, an algorithm is developed for organizing design activities in order to effectively produce an acc...

In this paper, which integrates an operation research and knowledge—based approach, is developed for building of scheduling models. The tandem system captures all features of models and supports the model management. The concept of a “knowledge object” that combines production rules and object—oriented representation scheme in introduced. A model r...