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The role of flexibility in the development of new products: An empirical study
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In this paper, the authors examined the link between technology and flexibility during product design and its impact on development performance and strategies for managing development risk, particularly in environments of high uncertainty, using the incremental cost and time of modifying a design as a response to endogenous and exogenous change as a measure of flexibility.About:
This article is published in Research Policy.The article was published on 1997-03-01. It has received 232 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Flexibility (engineering) & Product design.read more
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Toyota's Principles of Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
TL;DR: The set-based concurrent engineering (SBCE) as mentioned in this paper is an approach that considers sets of possible solutions (in parallel and relatively independently) and gradually narrowing the set of possibilities to converge on a final solution.
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Developing Products on Internet Time: The Anatomy of a Flexible Development Process
TL;DR: It is shown that in this industry, constructs that support a more flexible development process are associated with better-performing projects and investments in architectural design play a dual role in a flexible process.
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Managing Experimentation in the Design of New Products
TL;DR: It is shown that a given experiment (and the related trial and error learning) can be conducted in different "modes" and that users will find it economical to optimize the switching between these modes as to reduce total product development cost and time.
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Modeling impacts of process architecture on cost and schedule risk in product development
TL;DR: This paper integrates several important characteristics of PD processes into a single model, highlighting the effects of varying process architecture and yielding several managerial insights, including: how rework cascades through a PD process, trading off cost and schedule risk, interface criticality, and occasions for iterative overlapping.
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Product architecture assessment: a tool to link product, process, and supply chain design decisions
TL;DR: A multi-dimensional framework that enables comprehensive product architecture assessments and builds on existing product characteristic concepts such as component commonality, product platforms, and product modularity is developed.
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Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research
TL;DR: The Discovery of Grounded Theory as mentioned in this paper is a book about the discovery of grounded theories from data, both substantive and formal, which is a major task confronting sociologists and is understandable to both experts and laymen.
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Qualitative Data Analysis
TL;DR: In the field of qualitative data analysis, qualitative data is extremely varied in nature. It includes virtually any information that can be captured that is not numerical in nature as mentioned in this paper, which is a generalization of direct observation.
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The Sciences of the Artificial
TL;DR: A new edition of Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence as mentioned in this paper adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools for analyzing complexity and complex systems, taking into account important advances in cognitive psychology and the science of design while confirming and extending Simon's basic thesis that a physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action.