Product Development in the Socio-sphere: Game Changing Paradigms for 21st Century Breakthrough Product Development and Innovation

✍ Scribed by Dirk Schaefer (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a broad overview of a number of game-changing paradigms that are anticipated to reshape 21st century product development. Topics including cloud computing-based design, cloud manufacturing, crowd-sourcing and mass collaboration, open source and social product development will be discussed in the context of advanced distributed and collaborative product creation. The purpose of the book is threefold: (1) to provide decision makers in industry with a solid base for strategic design and manufacturing-related process re-organization; (2) to provide researchers and scientist with the state-of-the-art from an academic perspective as well as a research agenda aimed at advancing the theoretical foundations of the field and (3) to serve as supplementary reading in design and manufacturing-related courses at universities and technical colleges.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Social Product Development: Introduction, Overview, and Current Status....Pages 1-33
Co-Creation in Complex Supply Chains: The Benefits of a Value Driven Design Approach....Pages 35-62
Semantic Association Systems for Product Data Integration in the Socio-Sphere....Pages 63-98
Evaluating the Level of Openness in Open Source Hardware....Pages 99-120
Rethinking Service Design: A Socio-Technical Approach to the Development of Business Models....Pages 121-141
It’s All About Relationships: How Human Relational Development and Social Structures Dictate Product Design in the Socio-Sphere....Pages 143-168
Social Media Coming to the Mall: A Cross-Channel Response....Pages 169-235

✦ Subjects

Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Innovation/Technology Management