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Bridging the Chasm between Design and Marketing: Problems and Solutions in the Integration Between Design and Marketing

디자인과 마케팅 협업의 틈새관리: 디자인과 마케팅의 협업시 통합의 문제와 해결방안

  • Im, Subin (College of Business Administration, Yonsei University) ;
  • Joo, Jaewoo (College of Business Administration, Kookmin University) ;
  • Linder, Martin (College of Art, San Francisco State University) ;
  • Nam, Kiyoung (Department of Industrial Design, KAIST)
  • Received : 2015.01.23
  • Accepted : 2015.02.12
  • Published : 2015.02.28

Abstract

Although integrating design and marketing is critical for successful new product development (NPD), there has been a limited attention to the potential problems that arise during the NPD process and their possible solutions in academic literature. In order to narrow this gap, our study conducted a series of surveys of an interdisciplinary class project between marketing and design students over two year periods at one of U.S. universities. From the survey data collected from the total of 65 students who participated in the collaboration projects, we identified two most common problems: (1) conflict from the functional background, and (2) the conflict from imbalanced decision-making authority between design and marketing. In order to resolve such conflict, we found the two contrasting solutions: (1) facilitating communication and (2) prohibiting communication. Our findings contribute to the formation of a theoretical basis for research on the topic of design-marketing integration.

성공적인 신제품 개발을 위해서 디자인과 마케팅의 통합은 중요하지만, 두 영역이 통합할 때에 명확하게 어떠한 문제가 발생하고 실제로 어떠한 방법으로 문제가 해결되는지에 관한 논의는 많지 않다. 본 연구에서는 디자인과 마케팅이 통합될 때 발생하는 구체적인 문제와 실질적인 해결책을 알아내기 위하여, 미국의 한 대학교에서 디자인 학생들과 마케팅 학생들을 대상으로 진행된 2년간의 통합적 신제품 개발 수업에서 설문조사를 실시하였다. 65명의 조사 결과에 따르면 (1) 기능적 차이에 따른 갈등과 (2) 의사결정 권한의 불균형이 구체적인 문제점으로 발견되었고, 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위하여 (1) 의사소통을 강화하거나 (2) 의사소통을 단절하는 방법을 사용하는 것으로 드러났다. 본 연구의 결과가 가지는 디자인 마케팅 협업시의 통합 영역의 학문적 시사점을 정리해본다.

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