An Empirical Study on the Effect of Management Control Style During the Product Development Process

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Akroyd ◽  
William A. Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Product Development Process

Lean Value Creation in the Product Development Process With the Principle of Set Based Concurrent Engineering

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianyi Cai ◽  
Theodor Freiheit
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
A Value ◽  
Feasible Solutions ◽  
Functional Teams

Lean value creation requires a value-adding network of lean activities across the whole Product Development Process (PDP). Management needs to allocate resources and properly control the process to create the value that stakeholders desire. Leading companies in industry have successfully applied Set-Based Concurrent Engineering (SBCE) for lean PDP. In SBCE, designers propose several feasible solutions and develop them relatively independently and in parallel, and then gradually narrow the sets of solutions based on updated project feedback at each stage-gate design review. As an important lean concept with many advantages, SBCE has constraints that can jeopardize lean value creation. For instance, it is unclear how resources are allocated to each stage, different functional teams, and different value creation activities related to different kinds of value, which can cause waste of talent, time, and money. This paper focuses on how resources can be allocated to SBCE by viewing product development activities as value creation cells. Under management control, lean value creation activities use knowledge and other resources to produce valuable design solutions. A mathematical feedback control model is proposed to illustrate how management can invest resources for the value creation process. This model can be used to explore resource allocation to functional teams and processes according to a holistic value creation project development strategy and the optimal creation of lean value.

scholarly journals TOWARDS AGILE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT – AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON AN E-BIKE DRIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3209-3218
Author(s):  
Damijan Zorko ◽  
Borut Černe ◽  
Jože Tavčar ◽  
Ivan Demšar
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Development Phase ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Design Requirements

AbstractToday's rapidly evolving and changing market dictates constant changes in design requirements during the development process of a product. If development teams are unable or unwilling to adapt to these changes, this will ultimately lead to an uncompetitive product. How the change in requirements will affect the development process depends on the complexity of the product and the development phase in which the change in requirements occurs. The principles of Agility and the methods that follow these principles help in the successful introduction of changes in the product development process. The paper provides guidelines for the development of complex physical products taking into account the principles of Agility. The guidelines were set based on a critical review of the e-bike drive development process.

scholarly journals New Product Development in the Fashion Industry: An Empirical Investigation of Italian Firms

10.5772/56841 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romeo Bandinelli ◽  
Rinaldo Rinaldi ◽  
Monica Rossi ◽  
Sergio Terzi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Research Initiative

This paper investigates how companies in the fashion industry organize, plan and perform their New Product Development process (NPD). The results have been achieved through an empirical study carried out by the authors with the support of the GeCo Observatory, an Italian research initiative launched in 2012. This paper shows the details of eight selected case studies from the Italian fashion industry.

Experience Design Applied to Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea CAPRA ◽  
Ana BERGER ◽  
Daniela SZABLUK ◽  
Manuela OLIVEIRA
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Low Resolution ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Technological Products

An accurate understanding of users' needs is essential for the development of innovative products. This article presents an exploratory method of user centered research in the context of the design process of technological products, conceived from the demands of a large information technology company. The method is oriented - but not restricted - to the initial stages of the product development process, and uses low-resolution prototypes and simulations of interactions, allowing users to imagine themselves in a future context through fictitious environments and scenarios in the ambit of ideation. The method is effective in identifying the requirements of the experience related to the product’s usage and allows rapid iteration on existing assumptions and greater exploration of design concepts that emerge throughout the investigation.

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