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We had started our journey as an Offshore Supplier with a clear goal to become the "Software Engineering Partner of choice" for the Siemens R&D organization. Now, while we work as a partner of choice, our sustainability in this role, has largely depended on our ability to demonstrate the right set of behaviors as a partner organization, retain our key people and enable them to grow...
The increasing complexity of software-intensive systems (SIS) has led to a completely new concept: Very Large-Scale Requirements Engineering (VLSRE), where the sheer number of requirements typically exceeds 10,000. Design for eXcellence (DfX) principles and their execution have been studied in different contexts for decades. However, DfX has not been in the focus of the Requirements Engineering (RE)...
To be competitive, a new product should present an innovative advantage while being achievable. To ensure the success of a New Product Development (NPD) project, specific skills and resources are required. Most often, if a product is complex, a unique company doesn't have all the competences to provide the complete product. In this case alliances must be formed to create a collaborative network that...
Establishing deep understanding of customers and their perception of value is a prerequisite to deliver commercially successful products in today's hostile business environment. This paper elaborates on to which degree companies focus on customer value, along with their collaborative practices with customers undertaken in product development. Emphasis has been placed on comparing such practices in...
In order to withstand the increasingly global competition companies try to differentiate themselves by fulfilling as many individual customer requirements as possible. Promising, in this regard, are so-called individualized products, where customers actively intervene in the development process by using web-based toolkits. However, avoiding functional or safety-relevant feedback between individualisable...
National and international competition demands companies to sell products with maximum value for the customer, which is reflected by high functionality for low costs. Approaches in cost management like value engineering and target costing support practitioners in developing valuable products and to reduce costs. The relatively new approach of integrated value engineering (IVE) uses matrices to combine...
Today's technological, economic and social challenges force higher educational institutions to promote interdisciplinary reflection in order to help students understand challenging problems and frame feasible solutions. In engineering education, students need to go beyond technological knowledge and be motivated towards interdisciplinary and complex management education that will prepare them to become...
In general, commercializing new technologies have many problems in the beginning of their lifecycle, especially the process relate to marketing. In case study of commercializing products from Research and Development of University, the commercialization scheme can be made by incubating products along with tenants in an incubator in collaboration with other parties who have capability in market testing...
Innovation competitions are considered to be an instrument by which companies can inspire customers and employees to generate value-added ideas. However, there is little research on how the quality contributions are made and by whom. In this paper, a case study-based analysis is carried out at a global telecommunications company. Through the analysis of log files, the participating users are categorized...
Today's challenge for manufacturing companies is the fulfillment of constantly growing heterogeneous customer requirements by simultaneously delivering highest quality standards within shortest time. One way to face this challenge is the highly iterative product development approach. Its objective is the distribution of the current development process in many short and iterative sub-processes. This...
Due to the current demands from the market, technological improvements and action of competitors, manufacturing companies are pushed to compete in shorter product development cycles. This poses a great challenge, as the conventional product development cycle is shortened. Hence, companies are forced to introduce some improvement action plans and adopt certain manufacturing operational strategies to...
This paper presents a concept to anticipate deviations from the target process and thus inefficiencies within development projects by aid of predictive analytics. It is stated that predictive analytics approaches can be adapted to predict deviations in development projects, comparable to the anticipation of crimes. Deviations in terms of time, costs and quality are seen as a result of waste and therefore...
The trend of today's companies to reverse the threat of an increasing complexity, resulting from globalization effects, customer requests for individualization or shorter product life cycles, by a modular product architecture, can be observed more and more often. However, the concept of an alternative type of product structuring is novelty for many businesses. The risk of a recurring upsurge in complexity,...
As the world's economy becomes global, graduate workforce readiness is increasingly necessary. There has been a gradual shift in industry expectations of graduates from exhibiting academic expertise in a chosen discipline to a commercially adroit candidate with a strong command of, and immediate ability to apply, a broad range of skills deemed essential in the workplace [1]. With the globalization...
This paper focuses on the effects of absorptive capacity and coopetition on the generation of product innovation, by making use of service firms, both Knowledge intensive (KIS) and Less Knowledge intensive service (LKIS) firms, from Italy and Portugal. For this purpose, we use two datasets of 8647 Italian service firms and 2500 Portuguese service firms that participated in the European Community Innovation...
Customer involvement in software development is essential for building successful software products. Incremental improvements and enhancements of software require an in-depth and continuous understanding of customer needs. Also, mechanisms for managing customer feedback data need to be in place. However, previous research shows that the feedback loops from customers are slow and the process for obtaining...
In this era filled with big data, a crucial issue of knowledge management is to create an effective platform to integrate knowledge with new product development. Because of the 4V (Volumes, Variety, Velocity, Value) features of big data, traditional knowledge lifecycle management methods should be improved so as to better control and manage knowledge related activities. This paper thus discusses relevant...
Many companies adopt project management organization to develop products. In the current business environment, it is getting more difficult for project managers to bring projects to success. The expectations are increasing for methodology that helps to train project managers.
The mechatronics approach has been around for decades, but many companies still struggle realising the business potential inherent in successful combination, or even integration of enabling technologies in systems for mechanical, computing, metrology, and control topics. And the challenges are not only linked to combining systems, but also to realise them as products and create business value doing...
The role of product platforms within companies and in mediating the activities of business conglomerates or ecosystems has been widely recognized as being of great importance to the management processes of new businesses, to the development of new products, and to innovation. The objective of the present work is to help understanding what the benefits found by Brazilian software companies are in the...
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