Complexity in New Product Development: Mastering the Dynamics of Engineering Projects

✍ Scribed by Jürgen Mihm (auth.)

Publisher: Deutscher Universitätsverlag
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 268
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In organizational theory the coordination of many interdependent actors in complex product development projects is recognized as a key activity. With increasing project compexity this coordination becomes more and more difficult, and it is not yet known whether this effect can be controlled by frequent and intense communication among project members.

Jürgen Mihm analyzes which factors create complexity in engineering projects and how the negative effects of complexity can be mitigated. He builds a mathematical model of a complex distributed design project demonstrating how complexity inevitably arises from the interaction of simple components. He characterizes the dynamic behavior of the system analytically and with the aid of simulations, and he derives classes of managerial actions to improve performance dynamics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIV
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Literature Review....Pages 8-42
Model Description....Pages 43-66
Analytic Results....Pages 67-75
Simulation Results....Pages 76-109
Discussion and Conclusion....Pages 110-114
Back Matter....Pages 115-251

✦ Subjects

Innovation/Technology Management

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