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A company's readiness for concurrent product and process development

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: When entering the global market, companies encounter several difficulties, the most severe being long product development times, which are unacceptable for customers. In order to overcome this problem, companies will have to make a shift from sequential to concurrent product development as soon as possible. This paper presents strategic management in product development: parallelness, standardisation and integration of product development processes. Furthermore, the changes required by a transition from sequential to concurrent product development are presented with respect to the organisation of processes , the organisation of work (team-work), IT and preparation of product documentation. The paper concludes with a case study: analysis regarding readiness for a transition to concurrent product development (capability and motivation for team-work, susceptibility to team-work dysfunctions) in a company which is a development supplier of components for automotive industry and a proposal of activities that will have to be carried out in the company before the transition to the concurrent product development is done.

Source: Repository of the University of Ljubljana (University of Ljubljana)

Authors: Žargi, Urban, Kušar, Janez, Berlec, Tomaž, Starbek, Marko

Language: English

Topic: Product Development and Customization

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W105680436

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