... industry, the authors apply the Kano model to find the drivers for achieving customer satisfaction with new product developments in smartcars. Findings – Automotive companies need to consider what is attractive to drivers and what consumers consider to be “driver-friendly”. Using an empirical...

...Anne‐Maria Aho; Lorna Uden Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed light on understanding how value creation can be improved by developing dynamic capabilities in product development, in the case of a software engineering process. Design/methodology/approach The methodology involves...

...Trevor Cadden; Stephen John Downes Purpose Organizations are identifying strategic supply chain relationships as a major source for competitive advantage. Interest in the concept is becoming prevalent in many industries, including new product development within the engineering sector...

... in developing customized products. Detailed explanations of the framework are presented theoretically. This framework interacts with different product development participants such as resources, customers' preferences, design architecture for planning, and scheduling a custom‐built product. A new method...

... the potentially neglected or ignored issues relating to geographic and team diversity. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Simulation Process management Product development Modelling 1. work teams; 2. parallel teams; 3. project teams; and 4. management teams...

...Badr Haque; Kulwant S. Pawar Organisational issues present the main barriers to the implementation of concurrent engineering (CE) to new product development (NPD) processes in manufacturing organisations. Both research and practice have demonstrated that companies that invest in improving...

...Samson Tam; W.B. Lee; Walter W.C. Chung; Elizabeth L.Y. Nam This paper presents the design of a re‐configurable workflow system which is based on a product definition schema with the objective to expedite the product development activities. This proposed system is characterised by its ability...

... that there was no infringement of any intellectual property right. Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises Internet Product development Modelling Marketing research In the 1950s and 1960s, the “join‐the‐bandwagon”, or me‐too product approach was a popular product development strategy for Asian small and medium...

... mapping, and the boundaries between various design instances. Systematic steps are suggested as following to identify building blocks in design. Agile production Design Mass customization Product development Simultaneous engineering Concurrent engineering (CE) has been considered as one...