2019
DOI: 10.1017/dsi.2019.337
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Ethics and Strategy in Decision-Based Design Frameworks: Problems and Solutions

Abstract: Engineering Design decisions impact customers, the environment and society at large in ways that have profound ethical and strategic implications for designers. Previous research in decision-based design has proposed the decisions should be made on the basis of maximizing the expected utility of the design to the designer. This paper discusses ethical and strategic challenges for these frameworks across five levels: the axioms that underlie utility, the definition of utility, the consideration of multiple stak… Show more

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“…The ecosystem of the stakeholders' groups should be considered as well. As opposed to free market mechanisms, frequently allowing the natural alignment of stakeholders' interests, system design requires initiated consideration and aggregation of the utility created by the system for all stakeholders (Hulse, et al, 2019). As organizations must align employees' values to perform efficiently (Drucker, 2009), so must the participants of the design ecosystem coordinate the value they observe in the system.…”
Section: Figure 1 -Illustration Of Exemplar Psi Network Model Of Syst...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The ecosystem of the stakeholders' groups should be considered as well. As opposed to free market mechanisms, frequently allowing the natural alignment of stakeholders' interests, system design requires initiated consideration and aggregation of the utility created by the system for all stakeholders (Hulse, et al, 2019). As organizations must align employees' values to perform efficiently (Drucker, 2009), so must the participants of the design ecosystem coordinate the value they observe in the system.…”
Section: Figure 1 -Illustration Of Exemplar Psi Network Model Of Syst...mentioning
confidence: 99%