Combined Application of Emotional Engineering and System Engineering in the Development of a New Motorcycle Paradigm for 2020

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bastiaan van der Meer ◽  
Imre Horva´th ◽  
Wilhelm van der Vegte ◽  
Hiroshi Ohta
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
New Product ◽  
System Engineering ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Product Concept ◽  
Prototype Development ◽  
Combined Application ◽  
Complex Approach ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
And Control

This paper reports on a complex approach to including emotional engineering and system engineering in the development of a concept of a future product. The concrete problem was to develop a new product paradigm and a feasible concept of a branded motorcycle for 2020. The new product paradigm has been developed by considering some trend-setter new developments in the field of driving, moving, and control systems for motorcycles. Emotional engineering was used to include the opinion of the potential users in the formation of the new paradigm and to provide the users with comfort, pleasure, and emotional sensations. System engineering made it possible to find realistic solution elements for the implementation, and to develop a feasible product concept based on this paradigm that fulfils the functional, utility, and emotional expectations of the users. The information and knowledge intensive sub-processes of emotional and system engineering have been supported by design inclusive research. This methodological approach included the evolving product paradigm, and its various representations and prototypes as a research means. Design inclusive research consisted of an exploration research part, a concept and prototype development part, and a confirmative research part. Using this framing methodology, designers can get a better idea of what preferences their target groups have and understand what can be successful on the market. The results achieved are being used as input for further strategic investigation by the concerned companies.

Reliability and Accuracy of Bootstrap and Monte Carlo Methods for Demand Distribution Modeling

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swithin S. Razu ◽  
Shun Takai
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Conjoint Analysis ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Demand Uncertainty ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Choice Data ◽  
Product Concept ◽  
Demand Distribution

Estimation of demand is one of the most important tasks in new product development. How customers come to appreciate and decide to purchase a new product impacts demand and hence profit of the product. Unfortunately, when designers select a new product concept early in the product development process, the future demand of the new product is not known. Conjoint analysis is a statistical method that has been used to estimate a demand of a new product concept from customer survey data. Although conjoint analysis has been increasingly incorporated in design engineering as a method to estimate a demand of a new product design, it has not been fully employed to model demand uncertainty. This paper demonstrates and compares two approaches that use conjoint analysis data to model demand uncertainty: bootstrap of respondent choice data and Monte Carlo simulation of utility estimation errors. Reliability of demand distribution and accuracy of demand estimation are compared for the two approaches in an illustrative example.

UNDERSTANDING LINEAR AND NONLINEAR ASPECTS OF PRODUCT CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT FROM THE ORGANISATIONAL INTERPRETATION PERSPECTIVE

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 1650027
Author(s):  
MANABU MIYAO
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Linear Process ◽  
Concept Development ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
Nonlinear Characteristics ◽  
Product Concept ◽  
And Function ◽  
Interpretation Systems

The product concept is crucial in new product development (NPD) because it represents an NPD project’s goal. In this context, most prior studies have regarded product concept development as a linear process but some recent studies have revealed that it also has nonlinear characteristics. The objective of this paper is to explore why this inconsistency has arisen and to develop a model and theory that illustrate both aspects of product concept development. To achieve this, we adopt the perspective of organisational interpretation systems (Daft and Weick (1984). Toward a model of organisations as interpretation systems. Academy of Management Review, 9(2), 289–295) and explore eight product development cases. Consequently, we develop a three-stage model and find that the linearity or nonlinearity of product concept development is determined by each NPD team’s assumption about the environment. We also consider product innovativeness and function equivocality, and establish that these are related to the NPD teams’ assumptions about the environment.

Control of project data and team satisfaction as results of PMO effort in new product development projects

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanderson César Macêdo Barbalho ◽  
Gladston Luiz Silva
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Portfolio Management ◽  
New Product ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Satisfaction ◽  
Project Data ◽  
And Control

PurposeThis paper aims to explore how new product development (NPD)-based project management offices (PMOs) work, their drivers to deliver performance and their project success impact.Design/methodology/approachThe study used a survey of 35 Brazilian and multi-national companies that identified the effort to perform a list of PMO functions, some PMO drivers in the company and five project performance perception indicators. The authors apply a specific set of statistics to uncover the relations between these dimensions of interest.FindingsThe factorial analysis allows us to find the main functions influencing each other. The project teams’ perception of project management (PM) performance is suggested as a success factor that drives PMOs when working on portfolio management issues, managing project files and promoting PM over the company.Practical implicationsThis paper contributes to a contingency approach for designing a project machine involving PMOs to support NPD projects. Managers can set the most suitable PMO functions avoiding mimicry when structuring their NPD efforts.Originality/valuePMOs have impacted team satisfaction and control of project data but not indicators related to triple constraints.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMATION OF METHODOLOGY OF STAFF INCENTIVE AND ENGAGEMENT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Ovcharuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Incentive Scheme ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Cognitive Component ◽  
Engagement Process ◽  
Definition Of

The main approaches to the methodology of staff incentive and engagement are considered in the article. The research aim is to develop theoretical and methodological provisions, methodological approaches to the formation, functioning and development of a staff incentive scheme. Today, economics has developed several contradictory approaches to the definition of a category “staff incentive scheme”, as a consequence of ambiguous understanding of such categories as “motive” and “stimulant”, “engagement” and “incentive”. The issue of the relation between these concepts has remained controversial. In management practice, these categories are not differentiated, they are considered rather as synonymous concepts. The author has summarized the views of economists on the essence of the “incentive” and “engagement” concepts. It has been determined that, most scientists proceed from the fact that engagement is a broader concept than incentive. The article examines the engagement process from the standpoint of the stimulant impact on the motive formation. Staff incentive in an organization is not only a process but also a system, therefore, defining the technological component of the methodology, the author considered it as a system and process at the same time. The article describes the structure of a staff incentive scheme in different types of social and labor relations. As a result of studying the genesis of social and labor relations and the conceptual fundamentals of management and engagement, society development and the scientific and technological progress, the author found that development of a theoretical and methodological approach to staff incentive is efficient and meets the requirements of a new paradigm of socio-economic systems. A theoretical and methodological approach to staff incentive has been offered. This approach differs in the concepts of incentive as a system and process in the formation and support of which the object of management together with the subject is involved. The worldview aspect of the methodology was formed as a result of the development of mechanistic, humanistic, socially-oriented and participative approaches to human resources management. The cognitive component of the methodology is shown in the development of theories which reflect this evolution: classical management theories, the concept of human relations, the concept of human resources, the concept of socially responsible and ethical management.

scholarly journals The more we know, the more we forget…

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
L. M. Sokurenko ◽  
Yu. B. Chaikovsky ◽  
O. E. Majewskyi ◽  
L. M. Yaremenko ◽  
N. V. Bidenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oral Cavity ◽  
General Result ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Direct Knowledge ◽  
Medical University ◽  
And Control

Summary. Students of dentistry faculties need a special methodological approach aimed at the acquisition of practical skills, but the study of fundamental disciplines is different from the dental-oriented ones. The aim of the study – to assess presumed deficits in the histology, cytology, and embryology knowledge of dentistry students at O. Bohomolets National Medical University, to identify the problems associated with it, and to address them. Materials and Methods. Testing of students of different courses of O. Bohomolets National Medical University using the standard licensed examination tests ‘‘Step 1 Dentistry’’. Results and Discussion. Students of the dentistry faculty have shown the level of students’ knowledge at 4th and 5th years – 33.5 %. The general result of the ‘‘Step 1 Dentistry’’ license exam in the same students is 66.6 % (2019) and 62.2 % (2018), respectively. The percentage of this result of the test higher when checked professional direct knowledge. We found that it was determined the prevalence of correct answers in the block on the topic "Oral Cavity" at the test on histology, cytology and embryology of  O. Bohomolets NMU Dentistry Faculty different courses students. Conclusions. In accordance with the obtained results and the analysis of the problems, it is recommended to make adjustments to the curricula and control measures with a focus on the competencies that will be applied in professional activities.

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