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Based on the concept of Knowledge Structure(KS), Knowledge Management Structure(KMS) is proposed to include KS and KM. KMS corresponds with product structures in the different developing stage, forming the Fractal KMS; Organization innovation and the ability to develop new products is the company's core competence, which consists of KMS factors, for instances, evolution of KMS from Production Process...
In this paper, innovation and management for fuzzy front end of product design are studied. In view of the whole development trend and mode of product design, the innovative idea on a whole product concept in fuzzy front end was put forward. Sources of product conceiving and finding its methods were carefully studied, and an effective screening flow of product ideas and the judgment flow of feasibility...
As half of the cost of manufacturing multinational corporations come from purchasing, more and more multinational companies recognize the importance of supplier selection. Supplier will directly affect the production cost, quality and delivery, and profits. Therefore, the supplier selection takes a very important role in supply chain management (SCM), further more it directly determines the competition...
This article argues that need evolution has a moderate effect on technological evolution. Need is of evolution. We construct a conceptual model of the underlying factors' structure of technological evolution in product development. Then we can carry on an empirical analysis on the mechanism of the underlying factors which influence technological evolution, and test the moderate effect of need evolution...
There has been a natural symbiotic relationship between crisis management issues and corporate social responsibility. This symbiotic relationship benefits consumers in being able to recognize brands and corporations that produce quality products and services. The benefit to corporations is in maintaining a positive relationship with consumers as well as internal direction for employees and management...
Successful product development depends on the ability to integrate external and internal technology. The purpose of this study is to verify the relationship between technology integration and integrated innovation performance in equipment industry. Therefore, 121 R&D projects of equipment industry are chosen as research samples. A theory model is constructed based on literature review, and integrated...
Current economical context and industrialization accelerate product development and put forward automation. Still, product development requires also human intervention in a number of activities which cannot be entirely achieved by machines. It is the case of product development for railway markets, where the design of railway systems is guided by the evolving needs of the customers. Therefore, there...
The effects of globalisation and the breakdown in trade barriers between nations have resulted in having an influx of products from all over the world, providing consumers with an abundance of choices for products that share similar prices and capabilities. This opportunity to have a multitude of choices has created a change of attitudes among consumers, where quality parameters are viewed as necessary...
Companies are continuing understand the need for a general approach to product environmental compliance. It must begin with a process and continue by filling in the details for each product's environmental compliance. Companies are also more aware of the needed to support an audit and demonstrate compliance, not simply collecting and storing the data. Document, Gather, Evaluate, Review, and ultimately...
One way to deal with product lines and products that have to exist in many variants is to use a component-based approach. This allows a lot of flexibility in creating new products and can reduce time and costs. However, the flexibility in composing products from a base of components is not without problems. Complexity increases in the composition process when combining many components to one large...
This paper takes a historical perspective to more than 40 years of software development within a company that is delivering its products to a diverse set of customers throughout the world. By examining the company's past, we wish to find origins and potential remedies for the challenges that many companies presently face in determining just which, of many, features shall be implemented to forthcoming...
In market-driven product development, it is important that the software product is released to the market at the right time, and offers higher quality than the competitors. In release planning, the allocation of development effort in investments into product enhancements, functions are competing with quality requirements for limited resources. In addition, it is important to find the right balance...
Efficient scope management is a core part of software release management and often a key factor in releasing successful software products to the market. In a case when not all the requirements for the next software product release are known `a priori' and when new requirements are issued throughout the project, the risk of overscoping by including more functionality than can be implemented increases...
In the twenty-first century, a company has to organize around the customer in order to be a successful and viable firm. Today, the marketplace is customer driven. Customers expect to get what they would like, with a side order of customization. This alteration of traditional organization of a company through the involvement of the customer into the configuration of the final product faces some obvious...
A way to scale up agile release planning to meet the requirements of multi-team agile development is a practice called joint release planning. A software product company piloted the joint release planning method. The aim of the company was to improve coordination of work of multiple agile development teams who develop a large legacy software product. Another aim was to improve communication between...
The implementation of the NPD (New Product Development) projects is to gain an important means of competitive advantage, new products; competition has become one of the core areas of competition. With the investment in NPD projects continue to increase, the competitiveness of Chinese enterprises continues to strengthen, but it also faces the risk of failure. It can be said that the “project into it,...
This paper explores the categories of external technology sources in open innovation. The architecture of equipment products is complex, so external technologies are utilized in the innovation of equipment industry. To study the external technology sources in open innovation for equipment industry, the five sources commonly used are chosen as research objects, which are suppliers, users, competitors,...
Competitive pressures are prompting a new-found aggressiveness that questions established service offering and calls for new ways of identifying and satisfying buyers' needs. Services involve customers as co-producers. Therefore, it's necessary to deploy new service development (NSD) considering customer participation. However, it's still void in academic field. In order to fill this gap, we study...
Fashion color forecasting is more and more important to product development now. It is a creative work combined sense with sensibility and based on huge color resource analysis. In traditional color resource management, different kind of information is usually mixed together and designers can hardly compare accumulated resources and make trend prediction just from picture information. It not only...
Globalization has significantly changed the way the market operates today. In particular, it motivated many software companies expand through acquisitions and utilize skillful resources regardless of their location around the globe. Global software engineering endeavors have been widely explored in the research literature for the past decade and associated with many challenges caused by geographic,...
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