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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Rank, David B.     Subjects     New products     Product management     Production management     Teams in the workplace     Organizational effectiveness     MSNP Thesis.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rank, David B.       by title:      Reducing time-to-mar...         MARC Display

Reducing time-to-market with whole-organization, rapid, knowledge-based product development / by David B. Rank. by Rank, David B. Subjects New products   Product management   Production management   Teams in the workplace   Organizational effectiveness   MSNP Thesis. Description:  126 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. Contents:  Thesis advisor: Gene A. Wright Committee members: Dr. Bruce Thompson, David J. Schmitz Concepts and challenges of current practices -- Stages of gated methodologies -- Prelude to two stories of product development -- The SOS Team gets started -- Convergence at ACCEL -- ACCEL turns the corner -- WORPD into action -- Summary comparison of development approaches -- Final considerations and conclusions -- A: Underlying project models -- B: Design structure matrix -- C: Importance of role clarity. Desiring ever-decreasing time-to-market and costs, companies continually refine their methodologies. The following paper examines, especially, the application of crowd-sourcing, principles of open-development and collaborative technologies to the methods of product (or process) development. In so doing, the typical notion of a large company being unable to move swiftly is overturned. A blended study of explicit and tacit elements of Knowledge Management and transformational organizational change, the analysis is treated from the perspective of the company -- and its operational environment -- as a full system instead of an isolated initiative. In addition to crowd-sourcing and collaborative technologies, many systemic dynamics and obstacles are considered. For instance, the role and behavior of leadership, social skills required of the participants, and valuing the expertise of knowledge workers, are examined. An innovative format was chosen. The stories of two hypothetical companies are told in parallel, with surrounding analysis. As a baseline, the first company continues to function in a typical fashion, while the second company transforms itself into an agile product development prodigy engaging the whole organization. Features of the methods are described in sufficient detail so as to be instructive should one or more be desirable for implementation in a practical setting.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Walter Schroeder Library Master's Theses AC805 .R393 2010 Available Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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