Composite Prototype Aircraft Development A Method For Design, Fabrication and Test Training

Bennett, George; McWhorter, John C.; Bryant, Glenn D.; H, Koelling; Bull, Gifford

doi:10.4271/911015

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“…From the design aspect, the Beech A-36 program had a 'Safety First' design philosophy and high emphasis on quality control of the composite fabrication processes [8], [9]. 'Safety First' and high emphasis on 'total quality control' was also evident in the MH-02 program [8], [11].…”

Section: Coherency Between the Development Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Case of Honda: A Dialectical yet Coherent Firm

Holford

Ebrahimi

2007

2007 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07)

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This conceptual paper proposes that Honda's innovative prowess of producing both radical and disruptive innovations within their aerospace and automotive/pick-up truck development activities can be traced back to its organizational culture of continually embracing opposites or contradiction across dialectical synthesis. It is this synthesis of various 'contradictions' or viewpoints that gives the firm and its resulting disruptive innovations the simultaneous characteristic of continuity and novelty. Such a pattern was discerned across second hand data related to the development of the HondaJet and Ridgeline; and appears to confirm both Nonaka and Toyama's thesis of the dialectical firm, as well as Christensen's thesis of the feasibility of producing distinctive innovations at relatively low costs. Key organizational enablers towards attaining such an organizational reality requires management focus on nurturing mutual trust, care, empathy, redundancy of information and requisite variety.

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Section: Coherency Between the Development Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…From a technology aspect, the converted Beech A-36 research program involved the learning and gaining of experience of composite material design, fabrication and testing [8,9]. Composite materials were subsequently carried forward into both the MH-02 and HondaJet programs [8], [11], [14], [15].…”

Section: Coherency Between the Development Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%