Dominant Success Factors in Product Development

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Wörz ◽  
Dietmar Göhlich
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Design Research ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Engineering Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Component Development ◽  
Turbine Component ◽  
Project Lead

The outcome of product development projects depends on a multitude of different influencing factors. Some of these factors are dominant over others. These Dominant Success Factors not only influence the outcome of product development projects significantly, but also influence other Success Factors to change, which is why they need to be given first and foremost attention by engineering management. This paper illustrates the framework of a comprehensive Empirical Engineering Design Research study, which allowed for the identification of Dominant Success Factors, by applying it to 44 gas turbine component development projects in the industry. The collected data was analyzed using statistical methods, which provided information about the reliability of the results. Four Dominant Success Factors were identified which distinguished successful from less successful development projects: Priority of Project; Experience and Skills of Project Lead; Ratio of new Technology and Technical Complexity of Project; Awareness of Lessons Learned and State of the Art Technology Knowledge.

scholarly journals Success Factors of Radical Breakthgrough ICT Projects – Comparison of Hardware and Software Cases

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jari Sarja
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Ict Industry ◽  
Development Risks ◽  
Success Factor Research

Because technology pushed product development projects are risky and failure rates are high, the success factors are valuable knowledge for the management of development-intensive firms. This paper provides a comparison of success factor weighting between hardware and software product development projects in the ICT industry improving existing success factor research. We analyze qualitatively interview data from nine intentionally selected start-up firms and identify which success factors were clearly supported by HW and SW firms, and in which area different types of firms could benchmark each other. The practical aim of this paper is that it helps management to recognize the real actions needed to reduce product development risks in HW and SW projects.

scholarly journals Critical Success Factors of Product Development Projects in the Automotive Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-70
Author(s):  
Oberti Almeida ◽  
Paulo S. Figueiredo ◽  
Valter Estevão-Beal ◽  
Francisco Uchoa-Passos
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Critical Success

Applying intertextual semantics to Cyberjustice

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Marcoux
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Semantic Model ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Document Type ◽  
Definite Answer ◽  
Legal Document ◽  
Target Community ◽  
Project Objectives ◽  
Project Lead

We report on a project consisting in the application of the Intertextual Semantics modeling method (IS; Marcoux 2006, Marcoux & Rizkallah 2007a, Marcoux & Rizkallah 2009) to a particular type of legal document: the “Agreement as to the conduct of the proceedings,” used in the Province de Québec (Canada). This was done as a sub-project of the Towards Cyberjustice project in the Faculty of Law at Université de Montréal. One of the project objectives was to verify whether the availability of a semantic model of a document type (more precisely, a IS model) would impact on (and hopefully help) the development of an application for the collaborative authoring of such documents. We first explain how the project lead to many extensions to the then existing rudimentary IS platform (Marcoux 2009), and describe the most important of them. We then present a few unforeseen difficulties that arose in the process of modeling, and the lessons learned. Although no definite answer was obtained as to whether IS can directly help in the development of applications, the project showed it can at least help indirectly, by forcing fundamental questions to be asked early on in the process. In our case, applying IS modeling revealed that nobody really knew from the outset what the target community was, nor what their actual needs were. This is a good illustration of the kind of effect IS can have on application development projects: making sure fundamental questions do not go unasked too long.

scholarly journals Project management success factors: in search of product development project specialities

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-122
Author(s):  
László Soltész ◽  
László Kamondi ◽  
László Berényi
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Product Development Project

Project success is a multifactorial issue, including difficult to quantify, soft factors as well. Project management style, collaboration within the team, and the level of standardisation may have an essential influence on the deliverables, moreover, on corporate performance. A prescription answer is not achievable considering the individual characteristics of projects but finding best practices and critical factors help to improve the performance. This paper presents the results of a survey among product development project experts (n = 112) evaluating the relevance of some success factors and their practical experience in the field. The results show that keeping the project plan and managing long-term issues like lessons learned database or module database are the most critical factors of success. The analysis did not find patterns of the responses that confirms the need for unique management actions.

scholarly journals Human-Centered Design for Development

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Knoche ◽  
PR Sheshagiri Rao ◽  
Jeffrey Huang
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
External Actors

This paper describes the challenges faced in ICTD by reviewing the lessons learned from a project geared at improving the livelihood of marginal farmers in India through wireless sensor networks. Insufficient user participation, lack of attention to user needs, and a primary focus on technology in the design process led to unconvinced target users who were not interested in the new technology. The authors discuss benefits that ICTD can reap from incorporating human-centered design (HCD) principles such as holistic user involvement and prototypes to get buy-in from target users and foster support from other stakeholders and NGOs. The study’s findings suggest that HCD artifacts can act as boundary objects for the different internal and external actors in development projects.

DCXNET: E-Transformation at DaimlerChrysler

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnd Klein ◽  
Helmut Krcmar
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Business Value ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Strategic Planning Process ◽  
Teaching Case

In 1999, the automotive industry was in a difficult situation: overcapacity and customer demand for faster delivery and better service drove executives to explore the potential business value of the internet. The authors provide a teaching case, which is based on an analysis of the DCXNET initiative which bundled all e-business actions taken by DaimlerChrysler to exploit the opportunities of this then new technology. The teaching case describes the strategic planning process for e-business at DaimlerChrysler, resulting organizational structures and an outline of the components of DCXNET. Furthermore, the authors provide results of the initiative, success factors and lessons learned.

A design contribution to the entrepreneurial experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan David ROLDAN ACEVEDO ◽  
Ida TELALBASIC
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
User Centric ◽  
Constant Growth

In recent history, different design approaches have been entering fields like management and strategy to improve product development and service delivery. Specifically, entrepreneurship has adopted a user-centric mindset in methodologies like the business canvas model and the value proposition canvas which increases the awareness of the users’ needs when developing solutions. What happens when a service design approach is used to understand the entrepreneurs’ experience through the creation of their startups? Recent literature suggests that entrepreneurial activity and success is conditioned by their local entrepreneurship ecosystem. This study investigates the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem of Medellín, Colombia - an ecosystem in constant growth but that lacks qualitative analysis. The sample consists of 12 entrepreneurs in early-stage phase. The data was gathered with two design research methods: Cultural Probes and Semi-structured interviews. The analysis of the information collected facilitated the development of 4 insights about the entrepreneurs and an experience map to visualise and interpret their journey to create a startup. The results of this study reflected the implications of the ecosystem, the explanation of the users’ perceptions and awareness and propose a set of ideas to the local government to improve the experience of undertaking a startup in Medellín.

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