Ed McDonough III, Professor of Innovation Management

Edward F. McDonough III is Professor of Innovation Management in the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University. He holds a Ph.D. in the fields of organizational behavior and design, as well as an MBA with a concentration in organization development and design. For over 20 years, his research has focused on how companies effectively manage new product development and promote organizational innovativeness. Prof. McDonough was recently recognized as one of the top innovation management scholars in the world by the Journal of Product Innovation Management. His current research interests are focused on managing global new product development and managing global and virtual new product development teams.

He held administrative positions in two start-up companies prior to joining Northeastern in 1979 and has consulted with numerous companies on organizing and managing their new product development and innovation efforts. Some of the companies that Dr. McDonough has worked with include: Eastman Kodak, NYNEX, Corning, Phillips, ITT Hartford, EG&G, Litton Industries, Black & Decker, Northern Trust, Bay State Gas, Quebecor Providence Printing, Basic American Foods, Modine Manufacturing Corporation, and New Pig.

Professor McDonough has given speeches and run seminars and workshops on a variety of topics including, speeding up the product development process, leading new product development projects, creating high performance new product development teams, managing the product development process, improving the R&D/Manufacturing interface, effectively controlling new product development projects, and others. He served as the Vice President of Research for the Product Development & Management Association (an international association for people with a professional interest in new product management) for four years and was the President of the College of Technology and Engineering Management in The Institute of Management Sciences.

In addition to presenting over three dozen papers in the US and other countries, Professor McDonough has published extensively. His articles have appeared in, Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, International Journal of Project Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, R&D Management Journal, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Research*Technology Management, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Personnel, and Journal of Technology Management Research.

Refereed Articles

Edward F. McDonough III and Gloria Barczak, “Managing Global New Product Development Teams,” Research*Technology Management, forthcoming.

Edward F. McDonough III and Francis C. Spital, “Managing the NPD Project Portfolio,” Research*Technology Management, February, 2003.

Edward F. McDonough III, Kenneth B. Kahn, and Gloria Barczak, “Effectively Managing Global, Co-located and Distributed New Product Development Teams,” the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol. 18, No. 2, (2001).

Edward F. McDonough III and David Cedrone, “Meeting the Challenge of Dispersed Team Management,” Research*Technology Management, July-August (2000) 12-17.

Edward F. McDonough III, “An Investigation Of Factors Contributing To The Success Of Cross-Functional Teams,” the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol. 17, No. 3 (2000) 221-235.

Edward F. McDonough III, Kenneth B. Kahn, and Abbie Griffin, “Managing Communication in Global Product Development Teams,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 46, No. 4 November (1999) 375-386.

Edward F. McDonough III and Gloria Barczak, “How EPC Co. Revamped its NPD Process,” Research*Technology Management, Vol. 42, No. 3, May-June (1999) 9-12.

Kenneth B. Kahn and Edward F. McDonough III, “Marketing’s Integration With R&D and Manufacturing: A Cross Regional Analysis,” Journal of International Marketing, Vol. 5 (1997) 51-76.

Kenneth B. Kahn and Edward F. McDonough III, “An Empirical Study of the Relationships between Co-Location, Integration, Performance, and Satisfaction,” Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol. 27 (1997)163-178.

Edward F. McDonough III and Kenneth B. Kahn, “Using ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ Technologies for Global New Product Development,” R&D Management Journal, vol. 26 (1996) 241-253.

Book Chapters

Edward F. McDonough III and Abbie Griffin, “Creating Systemic Capability for Consistent High Performance New Product Development,” in New Product Development and Production Networks - Learning from Experiences in Different Industries and Countries, Ulrich Jurgens, ed., Springer Verlag, (2000).

Edward F. McDonough III and Kenneth B. Kahn, “Strategies for Managing Global New Product Development Using Behavioral and Information Technologies,” in Knowledge, Technology and Innovative Organizations, Guerini e Associati Publishers, Andrea Piccaluga and Jeff Butler, eds., Chapter 12, pp. 227 -244, 1997.

Book Reviews

Review of Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation (2nd Edition) by Robert A. Burgelman, Modesto A. Madique, and Steven C. Wheelwright Chicago: Irwin, 1996, in the Journal of Product Innovation Management, 1997.

Review of Managing Imitation Strategies: How Later Entrants Seize Markets from Pioneers, by Steven P. Schnaars. New York, NY: The Free Press, 1994, in the Journal of Product Innovation Management, 1996.

Monograph

Edward F. McDonough III and Abbie Griffin, “Creating Systemic NPD Capability,” Institute for the Study of Business Markets, ISBM Report 4-1997.

Refereed Papers Published in Conference Proceedings

Edward F. McDonough III, Harry Lane, Nick Athanassiou, Bert Spector, and Gloria Barczak, “Managing New Product Development Globally,” R&D Management Conference, Manchester, England, July, 2000.

Edward F. McDonough III and David Cedrone, “Managing Globally Distributed Teams: Beyond Technology Solutions,” IEEE EMS Management Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May, 1999.

Edward F. McDonough III and Gloria Barczak, “Developing an Effective New Product Development Capability,” European Institute for the Advancement in the Study of Management Conference, Como, Italy, May, 1998.

Edward F. McDonough III and Abbie Griffin, “The Impact of Organizational Tools on New Product Development Efficiency and Effectiveness,” the International Product Development & Management Association Conference, Monterey, CA, October, 1997.

Edward F. McDonough III, Kenneth B. Kahn, and Abbie Griffin, “Managing Global Product Development Teams: Achieving Effective Performance by Linking Communications Speed, Complexity and Scope,” R&D Management Conference on Using IT Effectively in R&D Management, Lausanne, Switzerland, September, 1996.

Edward F. McDonough III, “Identifying Best Practice in New Product Development,” Proceedings of the International Product Development & Management Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October, 1995.

Kenneth B. Kahn and Edward F. McDonough III, “An Empirical Study of the Relationships between Co-Location, Integration, Performance, and Satisfaction,” Proceedings of the International Product Development & Management Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October, 1995

Edward F. McDonough III and Kenneth B. Kahn, “Using ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ Technologies for Global New Product Development,” Proceedings of the R&D Management Conference on Knowledge, Technology and Innovative Organizations, Pisa, Italy, September 20-22, 1995.

Invited Speeches and Papers

Featured Speaker: “Managing the NPD Project Portfolio,” IIR/PDMA Joint Conference on Portfolio Planning & Management for New Product Development, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1998.

Featured Speaker: “Managing the New Product Project Portfolio,” the International Product Development & Management Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, 1998.

Invited paper: “Effectively Managing Global New Product Teams,” the International Product Development & Management Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, 1998.

Keynote Speech: "Researcher-Practitioner Alliances in the 21st Century: Developing NPD Infrastructure Theory and Putting it into Practice with New Pig Corporation,” the R&D Management Conference on Managing R&D into the 21st Century: Theory and Practice, the Tools of the Trade, Manchester, England, 1997.

Invited paper: “Creating Systemic NPD Capability,” the International Conference on New Product Development and Production Networks - Learning from Experiences in Different Industries and Countries, Berlin, Germany, 1997.

Featured Speaker: “Best Practices in New Product Development,” IIR/PDMA Joint Conference on Achieving Excellence in New Product Practices, 1996.

Featured Speaker: “The Missing Ingredient in the new product process: Infrastructure,” the Product Development & Management Association, New England Chapter, 1995.

Conference Presentations

Edward F. McDonough III and Gloria Barczak, “Managing Global Product Innovation,” R&D Management Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, February, 2001.

Gloria Barczak and Edward F. McDonough III, “An Investigation of Global, Virtual and Co-located New Product Development Projects,” PICMET Conference, July, 2001.

Edward F. McDonough III, Harry Lane, Nick Athanassiou, Bert Spector, and Gloria Barczak, “Implementing New Product Development Strategies Globally,” AIB Conference, Phoenix, AZ, November, 2000.

Edward F. McDonough III, Harry Lane, Nick Athanassiou, Bert Spector, and Gloria Barczak, “Managing New Product Development Globally,” ION Conference, Richmond, VA, February, 2000.

Edward F. McDonough III and Gloria Barczak, “The Impact of Antecedent Variables on Multiple Measures of New Product Performance,” International Product Development & Management Association Conference, Marco island, FL, October, 1999.

Edward F. McDonough III and Kenneth B. Kahn, “Using ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ Technologies for Improving Global New Product Development,” IIR/PDMA Conference, Toronto, Canada, June, 1996.

Edward F. McDonough III “An Investigation into the Relationships among New Product Performance, Multi-functional Teams, and Infrastructure,” The Institute for the Study of Business Markets, University Park, Pennsylvania, June, 1996.

Edward F. McDonough III, “Exploring the Impact of an Organization’s Infrastructure on New Product Development,” ORSA/TIMS Conference, Washington, DC, May, 1996.

Abbie Griffin and Edward F. McDonough III, “Creating Consistent High Performance New Product Development Using Market Research Tools and Techniques,” American Marketing Association Conference, Hilton Head, SC, February, 1996.

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