Flexible product development : building agility for changing markets
In this landmark book, Preston Smith attributes the recent decline in innovation to pressure from financial markets that drives management toward rigid development approaches such as phased development processes, Six Sigma, and project office. These processes have unintentionally (but effectively) made changes during development more difficult, disruptive, and expensive, while the need for change continues at an accelerating pace. . . Flexible Product Development is a hands-on resource that provides the tools and strategies needed to restore flexibility to any organization and remove the obst
1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages) : illustrations
9780470180587, 9786610974351, 9781280974359, 0470180587, 6610974357, 1280974354
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Flexible Product Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: UNDERSTANDING FLEXIBILITY; Chapter 2: CUSTOMERS AND PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS; Chapter 3: MODULAR PRODUCT ARCHITECTURES; Chapter 4: EXPERIMENTATION; Chapter 5: SET-BASED DESIGN; Chapter 6: DEVELOPMENT TEAMS AND PEOPLE FACTORS; Chapter 7: DECISION MAKING; Chapter 8: PROJECT MANAGEMENT; Chapter 9: PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES; Chapter 10: IMPLEMENTING FLEXIBILITY; Notes; Bibliography; Customer Council; The Author; Index
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Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011
English
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