The impact of non-holistic decision making on product development projects - A case study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afifa Rahatulain ◽  
Tahir Naseer Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals An optimization model to solve the resource constrained project scheduling problem RCPSP in new product development projects•

DYNA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 87 (212) ◽  
pp. 179-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Néstor Raúl Ortíz Pimiento ◽  
Francisco Javier Diaz Serna
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Optimization Model ◽  
New Product ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Project Scheduling Problem ◽  
The Impact

New product development projects (NPDP) face different risks that may affect the scheduling. In this article, the purpose was to develop an optimization model to solve the RCPSP in NPDP and obtain a robust baseline for the project. The proposed model includes three stages: the identification of the project’s risks, an estimation of activities’ duration, and the resolution of an integer linear program. Two versions of the model were designed and compared in order to select the best one. The first version uses a method to estimate the activities’ duration based on the expected value of the impact of the risks and the second version uses a method based on the judgmental risk analysis process. Finally, the two version of the model were applied to a case study and the best version of the model was identified using a robustness indicator that analyses the start times of the baselines generated.

scholarly journals Decision-Making Processes in Controlling Exposure to Sunlight Supported by Simulation Tools: A Case Study in Warm Weather

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4100
Author(s):  
Mariana Huskinson ◽  
Antonio Galiano-Garrigós ◽  
Ángel Benigno González-Avilés ◽  
M. Isabel Pérez-Millán
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Simulation Tools ◽  
Building Information ◽  
The Impact

Improving the energy performance of existing buildings is one of the main strategies defined by the European Union to reduce global energy costs. Amongst the actions to be carried out in buildings to achieve this objective is working with passive measures adapted to each type of climate. To assist designers in the process of finding appropriate solutions for each building and location, different tools have been developed and since the implementation of building information modeling (BIM), it has been possible to perform an analysis of a building’s life cycle from an energy perspective and other types of analysis such as a comfort analysis. In the case of Spain, the first BIM environment tool has been implemented that deals with the global analysis of a building’s behavior and serves as an alternative to previous methods characterized by their lack of both flexibility and information offered to designers. This paper evaluates and compares the official Spanish energy performance evaluation tool (Cypetherm) released in 2018 using a case study involving the installation of sunlight control devices as part of a building refurbishment. It is intended to determine how databases and simplifications affect the designer’s decision-making. Additionally, the yielded energy results are complemented by a comfort analysis to explore the impact of these improvements from a users’ wellbeing viewpoint. At the end of the process the yielded results still confirm that the simulation remains far from reality and that simulation tools can indeed influence the decision-making process.

Impact of CEDIT recommendations: An example of health technology assessment in a hospital network

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Bodeau-Livinec ◽  
Emmanuelle Simon ◽  
Catherine Montagnier-Petrissans ◽  
Marie-Eve Joël ◽  
Elisabeth Féry-Lemonnier
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Good Match ◽  
French Hospital ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Widespread Interest

Objectives: The objective of this study is to assess the impact of CEDIT (French Committee for the Assessment and Dissemination of Technological Innovations) recommendations on the introduction of technological innovations within the AP-HP (Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris), the French hospital network to which this body is attached.Methods: In 2002, a study based on semidirective interviews of fourteen people affected by these recommendations and a case study relating to thirteen recommendations issued between 1995 and 1998 were conducted.Results: The CEDIT is very scientifically reputable among interviewees. There is generally widespread interest for the recommendations. They are used as decision-making tools by administrative staff and as negotiating instruments by doctors in their dealings with management. Based on the case study, ten of thirteen recommendations had an impact on the introduction of the technology in health establishments. One recommendation appears not to have had an impact. Furthermore, the impact of two technologies was impossible to assess.Conclusions: This study highlights the significant impact of recommendations arising from a structure that is attached to a hospital network and the good match between CEDIT's objectives and its assignments.

scholarly journals PERCEPTION OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN INTEGRATION BENEFITS AMONG INDUSTRY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAMS: A CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 2475-2484
Author(s):  
T. Chatty ◽  
J. Faludi
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Process Time ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Industry Practice ◽  
Design Integration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Development Practice

AbstractHow do employees perceive the impact of incorporating sustainability considerations into their product development practice? In this case study, we observe how these perceptions can be shifted by teaching workshops on how to apply sustainable design methods in practice. We compare the trends for different methods on various dimensions such as creativity, design process time, product marketability etc. Results show an overall shift towards positive perception for all the methods on a majority of factors, indicating a way to ease the adoption of sustainable design into industry practice.

scholarly journals HR analytics a roadmap for decision making: case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brahim Jabir ◽  
Noureddine Falih ◽  
Khalid Rahmani
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
The People ◽  
The Impact

<p>In the socio-economic world, the human resources are in the most top phase of the enterprise evolution. This evolution began when the arithmetic, statistics are applicable over a vast of opportunities and used to identify problems and support decision. However, analytics has been emerged to provide predictions and understand the people performance based on available data.</p>In light of this vast amount of information, human resources services need to deploy a predictive management model and operating system of analytics that can be an efficient and an instead solution that can respond to the gaps of the traditional existing ones and facilitate the decision making. In this paper, we present a literature review of this HR analytics concept and a case study concerning the impact of interventions using an analytics solution.<p> </p>

Application of Statistical Analysis Tools and Concepts to Big Data and Predictive Analytics to New Product Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Brian J. Galli
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Big Data Analysis ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
The Impact

In today's fiercely competitive environment, most companies face the pressure of shorter product life cycles. Therefore, if companies want to maintain a competitive advantage in the market, they need to keep innovating and developing new products. If not, then they will face difficulties in developing and expanding markets and may go out of business. New product development is the key content of enterprise research and development, and it is also one of the strategic cores for enterprise survival and development. The success of new product development plays a decisive role both in the development of the company and in maintaining a competitive advantage in the industry. Since the beginning of the 21st century, with the continuous innovation and development of Internet technology, the era of big data has arrived. In the era of big data, enterprises' decision-making for new product development no longer solely relies on the experience of decision-makers; it is based on the results of big data analysis for more accurate and effective decisions. In this thesis, the case analysis is mainly carried out with Company A as an example. Also, it mainly introduces the decision made by Company A in the actual operation of new product development, which is based on the results of big data analysis from decision-making to decision-making innovation. The choice of decision-making is described in detail. Through the introduction of the case, the impact of big data on the decision-making process for new product development was explored. In the era of big data, it provides a new theoretical approach to new product development decision-making.

How Groupware Systems Can Change How an Organisation Makes Decisions

2011 ◽  
pp. 426-433
Author(s):  
Frédéric Adam ◽  
Jean-Charles Pomerol ◽  
Patrick Brézillon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Study Protocol ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Impact

In this article, a newspaper company which has implemented a computerised editorial system is studied in an attempt to understand the impact that groupware systems can have on the decision making processes of an organisation. First, the case study protocol is presented, and the findings of the case are described in detail. Conclusions are then presented which pertain both to this case and to the implementation of decision support systems that have a groupware dimension.

PROJECT-LEVEL INFLUENCES ON THE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN ENGINEERING

2001 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 517-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
NEIL ALDERMAN ◽  
ALFRED THWAITES ◽  
DAVID MAFFIN
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Engineering Industry ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Engineering Product ◽  
Traditional Process ◽  
Project Structure ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Project Level

Many current models of the product development process pay insufficient attention to the impact of project-level influences. This paper looks at the case of the engineering industry in which product development is seen to proceed in two very distinct ways: the traditional process in which development takes place "off-line", and the contract process in which development takes place as part of a contract to manufacture a product for a specific customer. Drawing on two recent studies of engineering product development projects, the paper looks at how project-level influences lead to differences in project organisation and management in terms of the particular project structure adopted and in the involvement of different disciplines, internal and external to the company. This has implications for the way in which companies should interpret generic prescriptions regarding product development.

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