In recent research funded jointly by the National Science Foundation’s Innovation and Organizational Change Program and industry grants, Kevin J. Dooley (Univ. of Arizona State University) and co-investigators John Anderson and William K. Durfee (Univ. of Minnesota), and Donald R. Riley (Univ. of Maryland) sought to determine the impact of best practices and maturity in new product development, and study how best practices diffuse within and between organizations. The researchers surveyed 41 com…