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Increasing product variety and high cost pressure are significant challenges for manufacturing companies. One approach to face the dilemma between economies of scale and scope is the development of product architectures. This implicates new challenges for both development process and organization. Defined processes and roles are necessary to support product architecture development. A recent survey...
As a discipline, project management has been accused of having lost its relevance for innovative initiatives because it emphasizes planning and control over the flexibility and learning-based strategies that are needed to succeed under uncertainty. Several authors therefore recommend adaptive project management practices - sometimes named “targeted flexibility” - that respond to project characteristics...
The objective of this case study is to describe how the Fuzzy Front End - FFE occurs in the packaging industry, how the ideas are selected and what are the information and knowledge activities. In the packaging creation there is a triadic relationship among companies: Consumer goods industry, Design Agency and Packaging Producers. This is a complex relationship with explicit information and knowledge...
Current solutions to address cybersecurity threats take a siloed approach. Such a siloed approach favors attackers who share exploits with one another. The paper argues that cybersecurity threats are best addressed through open source projects that combine the shared expertise of security experts. To this end we develop a tool for assessing the value of open source projects and then apply it to examine...
Over the past several years, the trend has been that academics and industry develop a relationship that expands the engineering education. With focus on German industry, there a need of high level educated PLM Professionals at industry. This paper describes how university and industry solved together the challenge to develop a PLM Professional education at university in industry context to educate...
This paper discusses Lean principles in Product Development (PD) in a context aimed to identify potential for implementing automation in design, also referred to as Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE). The background for a proposed questionnaire for evaluating the PD process in a company is presented. Questions and statements for a detailed questionnaire suited for evaluating the potential for automation...
The paper argues that an optimization of product development processes can be achieved through detailed description of the relationships in the product model as well as the relationships in the design and production process. This is especially true under rapidly changing market conditions when the design process is not only determined by the design task but by constant outside change requests that...
Continuous, incremental improvements of existing products is an important aspect of maintaining competitiveness. One of the main challenges related to improving existing products is to take into account and weigh the various impacts that a change entails. Through a case-study with a company producing flood protection systems, this paper describes and discusses a systematic approach for identifying,...
Many companies have introduced Lean practices in product development and innovation processes to gain competitive advantage. However, the application of Lean outside the factory floor is not straightforward, where principles and practices may be translated and contextualized when introduced in functional areas that differ significantly from manufacturing. Especially in such multifaceted contexts as...
The continuously increased aspiration level of customers and the growing saturation of the markets are the main drivers for the development of customer individual products. In this context, the determination which of the product components shall be individualized by the customer represents a major challenge for the product development. In order to meet these challenges, the “Design for Open Innovation...
This paper describes the results of empirical research into a sample of Tier 2 automotive component suppliers to a Malaysian automotive OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer). The paper investigates the competitiveness within the supplier as a consequence of working for, and with, the OEM. The ability to leverage the suppliers' involvement in the OEM's product development process is seen as a key enabler...
The use of testing framework has become a growing requirement in software development. This framework is a kind of software which can automate the pre-generated test cases. So, for developing test automation software an incremental and timeframe iterative approach known as Agile Software Development Methodology can be used. It provides software developers a working test framework early with respect...
In your current job, would you describe yourself as a "Brilliant Technology Innovator" or "Indentured Spice Monkey"? In the competitive and fast-paced semiconductor industry, most jobs require people to do at least a little (but more often a lot) of both. And your answer may change on a daily or hourly basis. But how do corporations, universities and the technologists at the heart...
Despite the growing interest in the usage and application of Agile Project Management Methodologies (PMMs), there is only scant research examining how and why organisations select agile approaches for managing and delivering Information Technology /Information Systems (IT/IS) projects. This paper reports on the findings of such research conducted within the context of a large technology-focused case...
Small and medium-sized enterprises ("SMEs") around the world are attracting attention as sources of employment and economic growth because, amid the economic downturn after the recession stemming from the financial crisis of 2008, SMEs - medium-sized companies in particular-revealed their resistance to economic shocks. Among SMEs, there is a group of companies that has maintained the top...
New Product Development - NDP is a major source of competitive advantage to companies. Decades of quality research lead to substantial developments. Time-to-market was substantially reduced. The elimination of non-value-adding activities and a controlled, almost error-free flow from idea to launch resulted in substantial reduction of NPD expenditures yet improvements in project quality. Considering...
This paper discusses drivers of the use of social media tools by organizational members. Specifically, we contrast the expectations of senior managers of social media tool adoption with the benefits perceived by organizational members after the implementation of these tools. We analyzed empirical findings from 252 respondents to a survey of three global companies before and after social media tool...
This study develops an original framework of inward and outward capability to explore the positive effect of adaptive ability (inward capability) and relationship learning (outward capability) on new product development performance through the partial mediator - resource integration. The study employed questionnaire survey and collected data from 167 Taiwanese manufacturing companies. Confirmatory...
Strategic management of projects is an evolving concept in research literature of project management. In this study, we investigated the implementation of strategic management particularly in new product development projects to determine its existence and its forms. We found that such projects typically use the following four strategies, product superiority, product time-to-market, customer intimacy,...
This paper studies the main reasons given for early termination of different types of New Product Development (NPD) projects. Early termination here means before reaching its objectives. Our case study, a large Brazilian chemical company, is a B2B operation with three types of NPD projects: line extension, new application and innovation. We found that they mostly replace decisions to kill projects...
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