Research on Component-Oriented Business Applications has focussed on Specifications of Components and Component Markets. Another approach based on Mass Customization and Software Product Lines is presented here. Mass Customization is a strategic concept used in many industries to offer products that are customer-individual, but based on a limited number of building blocks. Thus, customer value ...

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We consider a portfolio of products in which each product probabilistically transitions through various life cycle stages. The evolution through these life cycle stages is impacted by both marketing support and product launch decisions, which are bound by a financial constraint in the form of restricted working capital. In the model, the joint working capital level serves to finance the portfol...

Research and development portfolio management is traditionally technologically and financially dominated, with little or no attention to the sustainable focus, which represents the triple bottom line: not only financial (and technical) issues but also human and environmental values. This is mainly due to the lack of quantified and reliable data on the human aspects of product/service developmen...

In this thesis we present an overview of a single exploratory case study on the topic of product portfolio management (PPM) implementation in multinational software corporations (MNCs). In this study, we look at four generally recurring issues in such implementation projects, being context, content, process and outcomes. We find that the case company has four goals that it wants to achieve by i...

It is common for brands to extend into additional product categories. It has been argued that narrow brands (i.e., brands offering a portfolio of similar product categories) have an advantage over broad brands (i.e., brands offering a portfolio of diverse product categories) when extending to a product category that is similar to at least one of the categories in the existing brand portfolio. W...

Product portfolio management (PPM) is a critical decision-making for companies across various industries in today's competitive environment. Traditional studies on PPM problem have been motivated toward engineering feasibilities and marketing which relatively pay less attention to other competitors' actions and the competitive relations, especially in mathematical optimization domain. The key c...

This paper presents a discrete-event simulation environment that models the underlying structure of a pharmaceutical enterprise portfolio. An object-oriented model structure previously developed for batch plant scheduling and design is extended to embed the case of product management, which is particularly adequate for re-use of both structure and logic. By wrapping such a simulation with advan...

This paper explains a novel cross-functional evaluation concept for product portfolio complexity management. In a holistic approach it combines and connects four main evaluation dimensions which are integrated into a complexity index model. The validation of the concept will be explained along an industry project within a manufacturing company.