There are increasing global demands for environmental friendly products. Green Quality Function Deployment – III (GQFD – III) is an innovative tool aiding in the development of environmentally conscious products and processes. An improved version of GQFD – III, Green Quality Function Deployment – IV (GQFD – IV) has been developed in this study. Its improvement over GQFD – III is that the life c...

There is an extensive literature about online controlled experiments, both on the statistical methods available to analyze experiment results [1, 2, 3] as well as on the infrastructure built by several large scale Internet companies [4, 5, 6, 7] but also on the organizational challenges of embracing online experiments to inform product development [6, 8]. At Booking.com we have been conducting ...

E-business frameworks providing standards and specifications that aim at enabling integrating the enterprise applications of business partners with relative ease have been recently proposed. This paper reports on experiences gained from developing a prototype system for integrating design document management systems based on the RosettaNet e-business framework. We present the requirements for t...

A firm’s development of innovation in products and services are critical for sustaining a competitive advantage but new product development failure rate in various industries still remains relatively high. New processes emerge during product development due to the uncertainty of the requirements and the diversity of the product development team. Unstructured processes emerge through the social ...

The mega trend individualization drives product manufacturers towards offering more and more variants of their products. As seen in mass customization scenarios, product configuration based on a modular strategy is an enabler for this trend. The key idea of variant management is to optimize the number of product variants that can be offered to a specific market segment, i.e. outer variety, whil...

The importance of quality is often recognised more by its absence at the end of a software project, than by its presence at the start of a new project. Quality cannot be added into a product after it has been developed, it should be built into it from the start. This paper investigates the application of metrics to measure duration, effort and quality, as related to software supporting the Matr...

A successful organisation recognises that when an effective strategy is properly implemented, it will result in a sustainable competitive advantage. But when you examine the formulation of an organisational strategy, you quickly realise that strategy is really about choice. In this context project risk management based on analytical hierarchy process (AHP) approach is a systematic process of id...

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems have been introduced by companies to facilitate their new product development process to shorten the product time to market, reduce the product development cost, and meet the dynamic demands of customers. However, PLM implementation is not an easy job and some of the attempted projects failed. A common problem encountere...

Today’s manufacturing industry requires product data management system (PDM) for efficient product development and production. Manufacturing industries must deal with competition, time to market, reduction of the cost of doing business, and rapid development of new services and products. To address these requirements industries must constantly reconsider and optimize the way they do business an...