The role of 1st tier suppliers in automobile product modularisation: the search for a coherent strategy

Fourcade, François; Midler, Christophe

doi:10.1504/ijatm.2005.007180

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“…addressing functionally consistent product lines. Domauto is immersed in a highly competitive sector: it must provide automobile manufacturers with a stream of innovative offers in order to stand out and ensure its growth (Fourcade & Midler, 2005). In order to take on this challenge, in 2004 the company launched a creativity process related to a specific feature in the car: the powertrain.…”

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Enhancing Discontinuous Innovation through Knowledge Combination: The Case of an Exploratory Unit within an Established Automotive Firm

Mahmoud‐Jouini

Charue-Duboc

2008

Creat Innov Manage

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International audienceThe literature on innovation management underlines the necessity to separate the exploratory unit that builds new businesses on the basis of radical innovation from the exploitation unit that emphasizes continuous improvement. However, little research focuses on the exploratory unit in itself: the very nature of its activity, its composition, etc. The aim of this article is to analyse the exploratory unit in mobilizing results highlighted by research on organizational creativity. It is argued that in order to enhance discontinuous innovation, knowledge combination should occur and be facilitated in the exploratory unit. Hence, the research question is what organizational design at a fine-grained level and creativity processes are likely to enhance knowledge combination and thus discontinuous innovation? Based on an in-depth study of an exploratory unit created in an established multidivisional firm pursuing the development of discontinuous innovation and which generated several actual breakthroughs, we highlighted four key factors that enhanced knowledge combination: (i) the definition of the scope of the unit, (ii) the composition of the unit and the dual roles of its members, (iii) the boundary objects that supported the interactions between these members during the creativity process, and (iv) the arenas where new knowledge was further created

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Enhancing Discontinuous Innovation through Knowledge Combination: The Case of an Exploratory Unit within an Established Automotive Firm

Mahmoud‐Jouini

Charue-Duboc

2008

Creat Innov Manage

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“…There is also a trend with the major OEMs to share their risks during the development of a new product by outsourcing the entire design & development of sub-systems to its Tier-1 vendors [2]. This has increased the collaboration requirement between different interorganizational entities.…”

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Tool‐agnostic Framework for Systems Engineering Implementation

Gondhalekar¹,

Kale²,

Vidap³

2016

INCOSE International Symp

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This paper presents a comprehensive framework to implement complex Systems Engineering (SE) methods and processes in a tool agnostic IT architecture. The framework is based on a central systems engineering engine, connecting to several commonly used SE tools and the PLM system. The central engine holds algorithms required for some key SE analyses including change propagation, requirements traceability, impact analysis, and dependency matrices. The framework can be configured for any industry domain. In this paper, the framework is explained by along with its features like requirements elicitation, traceability, function modeling, CAD modeling and V&V.

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“…A majority of the studies reported so far has analysed relationships between either product architectures and organisations or production systems and organisations (Campagnolo and Camuffo, 2010). However, the underlying logic of products and production systems may not necessarily match (Sako, 2003;Takeishi and Fujimoto, 2003;Fourcade and Christophe, 2005). Although it is possible to design modular product systems, production systems can be more complex and integral (and vice versa).…”

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Evolving schemes of interpretation: investigating the dual role of architectures in new product development

Magnusson

Lakemond

2015

R & D Management

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Should product architectures be considered inputs to – or outputs from – new product development (NPD)? Whereas the mirroring hypothesis suggests the former, NPD stage models suggests the latter. Elaborating on these conflicting propositions, this paper analyses the relationships between product architectures and development processes in NPD projects. The analysis demonstrates how project managers use product architectures to interpret their tasks and devise appropriate responses to perceived challenges. Thus, architectures provide useful linkages between knowledge development and organisational change in R&D organisations.

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The role of 1st tier suppliers in automobile product modularisation: the search for a coherent strategy

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

Enhancing Discontinuous Innovation through Knowledge Combination: The Case of an Exploratory Unit within an Established Automotive Firm

Enhancing Discontinuous Innovation through Knowledge Combination: The Case of an Exploratory Unit within an Established Automotive Firm

Tool‐agnostic Framework for Systems Engineering Implementation

Evolving schemes of interpretation: investigating the dual role of architectures in new product development

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