Developing Design Methods - a Conceptual Requirement Framework

Becerril, Lucia; Guertler, Matthias R.; Longa, Emmanuel

doi:10.1017/dsi.2019.152

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“…R5: The practical applicability of the methodology appears trivial, but it is challenging due to the complexity of IPM and DI. Here, a structured handling of complex information is important, and the procedure should be comprehensible and repeatable [26]. Universal applicability also requires the flexible customizability of the methodology to the diverse use cases in companies.…”

Section: Practical Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodology for Managing Disruptive Innovation by Value-Oriented Portfolio Planning

Weinreich

Şahin

Karig

et al. 2022

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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Disruptive innovations (DI) have the potential to fundamentally change markets and their power relations: Specifically, established companies are confronted with the threat of being forced out of the market by DI. At the same time, companies also have the opportunity to control the market’s development by developing DI themselves. This raises the question of how a proactive management of DI can be systematized. Here, the approach of innovation portfolio management (IPM) provides support by identifying, evaluating, and selecting a company’s most promising product ideas. The management of DI is challenging due to their characteristics, such as diversity, high uncertainty, especially with regard to customer acceptance, difficult comparability with existing products, potential for cannibalization, and substitution of existing products. For this reason, new approaches to managing DI are required in literature and practice. This paper presents a novel methodology to support—especially established—companies in proactively generating DI via existing processes in their IPM. For this purpose, the methodology supports the early identification of the product idea’s disruptive potential so that these can be handled appropriately in the further course of the process, such as the evaluation of all product ideas in the company during IPM. Thus, the risk can be minimized that promising DI are not rejected due to unsuitable procedures, but are brought to market maturity. The methodology contributes to the literature by showing how DI can be pursued embedded in existing corporate structures and also in competition with other product ideas in the company—in existing approaches, DI is primarily considered singularly and detached from the existing corporate context. The methodology is validated by the example of the digital camera, which disrupted the photo industry, as well as through interviews in a practical context.

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Section: Practical Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodology for Managing Disruptive Innovation by Value-Oriented Portfolio Planning

Weinreich

Şahin

Karig

et al. 2022

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…Methods can create transparency in higher-level project structures and thus support plannability and promote comprehensible documentation, which in turn supports decision-making processes and offers the possibility of cross-project knowledge transfer. Furthermore, methods can help overcome barriers and promote creativity that is necessary for the development process (Becerril, Guertler, & Longa, 2019;Ehrlenspiel & Meerkamm, 2017). Another element that was set-up based on the analysis was ‚mind wandering'.…”

Section: Construction Sense Elementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an integration of ‘sense elements’ into a ‘focus oriented’ automotive product development

Kaschub¹,

Lossack²,

Bues³

et al. 2022

How Product and Manufacturing Design Enable Sustainable Companies and Societies

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The automotive product development is not only defined by its complexity but furthermore by the need of developing creative ideas and innovative solution in a highly competitive field. Here, the highly structured and analytical approach might not always provide the most suitable foundation for creativity. It becomes clear that both approaches and sides are essential when it comes to being innovative on a highly competitive market while also managing the increasing complexity within the development process. The structured focus seems to be fairly established in the automotive industry (e.g. Systems Engineering), resulting in the need to integrate the unstructured sense mode and mitigating a solution to not only combine aspects of both approaches but furthermore try to find a suitable and feasible adaption for the automotive context. Therefore, the question arises how a 'sense mode' can be integrated into a 'focus mode' oriented automotive problem-solving cycle? To answer this research question, a two-part explorative expert study was set-up. Both study parts were executed in cooperation with a project leader of an automotive product development project in an interdisciplinary research project. The first part focussed on the status quo of a product development process in the automotive industry. Therefore, the use case of a new design of a cap from a power electronics developed in the project was used as a lead to visualize the process. Furthermore, current challenges and problems as well as well working elements were identified. The second part of the study then tried to explore possible elements of a more sense-oriented mode and on their possible application in the process. In conclusion it can be said that the possibility exists to integrate sense elements in a focus oriented automotive product development process. Still a fine tuning of those elements is needed. The study gave a first outlook on the feasibility for sense elements integration. In general, it seems to be it is essential to introduce the elements slowly and apieced as well as accompanied by instructors. Not only the accompanied instructions seemed to be critical but also the project-cultural base is relevant for users to feel secure and at ease when integrating sense elements that might be untypical and uncomfortable at first.

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“…Design methods also provide a structure to a rather "fuzzy" and "open-ended" design process (Kramer et al, 2017). However, the uptake of design methods in design practice is low for various reasons (Becerril et al, 2019;Eisenmann and Matthiesen, 2020;Gericke et al, 2022;Jagtap et al, 2014). It is important to understand the causes and factors for this low uptake, with the intention of improving the use of design methods in practice.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges in design methods: perspectives of design students

Mayookh,

Srinivasan

2024

Proc. Des. Soc.

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The aim of this study is to identify: (a) challenges in understanding and using design methods, and (b) features expected in an enhanced repository of design methods, by design students. These are identified through interviews and a survey. The major findings are (a) less (time for) practice leads to weak understanding and challenges in using design methods and (b) students expect to have a method recommendation system based on problem context. The findings from this study will guide in developing a user-centric, enhanced repository of design methods to aid design practice and pedagogy.

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Developing Design Methods - a Conceptual Requirement Framework

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Methodology for Managing Disruptive Innovation by Value-Oriented Portfolio Planning

Methodology for Managing Disruptive Innovation by Value-Oriented Portfolio Planning

Towards an integration of ‘sense elements’ into a ‘focus oriented’ automotive product development

Challenges in design methods: perspectives of design students

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