Development of a Strategic Parameter Search Method forEfficient Product Design

Design Focus: a Strategic Alternative for Managing Product Development

Firms faced with a portfolio of inconsistent design tasks often fail to get the best out of their investment in product design efforts. We present the concept of design focus as a strategic alternative for gaining competitive advantage through product design. The concept is based on the premise that design task homogeneity facilitates effective information processing and efficient utilization o...

Wavelets forEfficient Algorithms in Electronic Design Automation

With current advances in electronics, numerical methods once applicable only to analog design are becoming essential for digital design as well. The scale of present day analog and, particularly, digital design requires that the traditional numerical techniques for analysis and simulation be much more effective than in the past. Development of not only efficient, but gracefully scalable numeric...

Information complements, substitutes, and strategic product design

Nippondenso Co. Ltd.: a Case Study of Strategic Product Design

Nippondenso Co. Ltd. (NDCL) is Japan's foremost manufacturer of automotive components. It faces the challenge of manufacturing massproduction-volume products in unpredictable model mix in order to meet the high variety Just In Time (JIT) production requirements of its customers, notably Toyota. Over the past 25 years it has increased its ability to meet this challenge and indeed has made the co...

Strategic Planning for High-Tech Product Development

A three-questionnaire DELPHI management issues study of technology management problems identiŽes the top 24 technology management problems of advancedtechnology product companies. These problems are ranked in order of importance. Strategic planning for technology products is found to be the dominant problem. A striking theme of the Žndings is the extent to which several of the twentyfour issues...