The management of electronics engineering design teams: linking tactics to changing conditions

Reid, Fraser J. M.; Culverhouse, Phil F.; Jagodzinski, A. P.; Parsons, Richard D.; Burningham, C.

doi:10.1016/s0142-694x(99)00010-1

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“…They have an important role in setting project targets because they make decisions that impact product costs, manufacturability and quality. They apply various practices such as design for manufacturing (Dean and Susman, 1989; Ulrich and Pearson, 1998), quality function deployment (Lockamy and Khurana, 1995; Prasad, 1998), concurrent engineering (Koufteros et al, 2001; Swink, 1998), structured design methods (Pahl et al, 1999) and engineering design teams (Baird et al, 2000; Reid et al, 2000) to improve product designs. With appropriate contacts and a working knowledge of marketing, research and development and manufacturing, design engineers can have an expanded role on product development teams.…”

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Role change of design engineers in product development

Hong

Vonderembse

Doll

et al. 2005

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Product development is recognized as cross-functional, knowledge-intensive work that has become increasingly important in the fast-paced, globally competitive environment. Researchers and practicing managers contend that design engineers may play an important role in product development efforts. However, their effect on the product development process is not well understood and the extent of their impact on product development performance has not been adequately accessed. This research defines the changing role of design engineers, and it discusses their impact on setting clear project targets and sharing knowledge about customers. The study investigates the impact of these variables on product development productivity. Data collected from 205 manufacturing firms were used to create valid and reliable instruments to assess role change of design engineers, clarity of project targets, shared knowledge about customers and product development productivity. Results from structural equation modeling indicate that as the role of design engineers expands the clarity of project targets increase. This increase impacts the extent of shared knowledge about customers. Increases in the clarity of project targets and shared knowledge about customers appear to enhance product development productivity. #

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Section: Role Changes In Integrated Product Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role change of design engineers in product development

Hong

Vonderembse

Doll

et al. 2005

J of Ops Management

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“…International studies have shown the importance of integrating the design team with the other participants in a project (REID et al, 2000;LAUCHE, 2005). In addition, concepts of shared knowledge appear (KLEINSMANN;VALKENBURG, 2008), as well as competences of organizations and professionals (BRUCE et al, 1999;BELKADI et al, 2007), leadership in design teams (LEE;CASSIDY, 2007) and design as an agent of knowledge and integration in the organizations (BERTOLA; TEIXEIRA, 2003;ROBIN, 2006) which also appear as factors related to design process.…”

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Competencies and Interactions in Design Management

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Amaral²

2016

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The inclusion of design in corporate strategies has been a recurring research theme, and organizations are using it as strategic element for gaining competitive advantage in the long term. Thus, it becomes evident the need to manage design activities, making use of concepts related to competencies, learning, dynamic capabilities and other aspects. Therefore, this paper aims at investigating what experts think about design management and competencies, joints and intervenient factors in Brazilian fashion industry. In addition, this article aimed at knowing how design teams are structured and the relationship of these with the organization. The methodology was exploratory, qualitative, through in-depth interviews with ten designers working in Brazilian firms in the fashion industry and four specialists in fashion design. We identify phases and activities of design professional, which are decisive for the design management occurrence in enterprises in apparel industry, identifying the coworkers at each stage of this process.

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“…D esign processes that take place in teams have been studied many times and in many ways (e.g., Baird, Moore, & Jagodzinsky, 2000;Cross, Christiaans, & Dorst, 1996;Reid, Culverhouse, Jagodzinski, Parsons, & Burningham, 2000;Stempfle & Badke-Schaub, 2002;Valkenburg, 2000). Nevertheless, it is still far from transparent exactly how design processes contribute to the successfulness of designs as this relationship has received only limited scientific attention (Badke-Schaub & Frankenberger, 2002).…”

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Twenty-six multidisciplinary student design teams ( n = 128) each built a robot that had to perform a specific task in a design contest. For these teams, an input—process—output framework of team member personality (input), generic and specific design behaviors (process), and contest result and supervisor and team member ratings of the design (output) was researched using correlations. Agreeableness and conscientiousness were positively related to generic design behaviors in both the concept and elaboration phase of the design process. Generic design behaviors were positively related to contest result and team member ratings of the design's technical realization. The conclusions hold implications for design research (multiple process and outcome measures are needed) and practice (attention for personality differences in teams and particular design behaviors in specific design phases foster design outcomes).

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The management of electronics engineering design teams: linking tactics to changing conditions

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