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Complexity in New Product Development

Mastering the Dynamics of Engineering Projects

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  1. Jürgen Mihm
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIV
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-7

  3. Literature Review

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    Pages 8-42

  4. Model Description

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    Pages 43-66

  5. Analytic Results

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    Pages 67-75

  6. Simulation Results

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    Pages 76-109

  7. Discussion and Conclusion

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    Pages 110-114

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 115-251
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About this book

Engineering organizations developing large complex systems are usually not capable of determining an "overall optimal" system design. Rather, the system is divided in "com­ ponents" or subsystems (such as an axle in a car or a module in a software product), for each of which a performance can be measured, an optimal design can be found or at least approximated, and for which a designer (or engineer or team of engineers) is responsible. Each engineer then makes, at first, decisions to optimize "his" component. In real orga­ nizations, designers often develop considerable pride in the solutions they have found for their components. However, it is the very nature of complex systems that the components cannot be optimized in isolation, but that they interact in determining the quality of the overall system (via space constraints, or via the exchange of fluids, air, force, electricity, or information). To some degree, these interactions are known from experience and can be anticipated, or are embedded in accepted design principles. However, in any complex design project that is not entirely routine and marginal, many such interactions are not known at the outset.

About the author

Dr. Jürgen Mihm promovierte bei Prof. Dr. Arnd Huchzermeier am Lehrstuhl für Produktionsmanagement der Wissenschaftlichen Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (WHU) in Vallendar. Er ist als Unternehmensberater bei McKinsey & Co., Inc. tätig.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Complexity in New Product Development

  • Book Subtitle: Mastering the Dynamics of Engineering Projects

  • Authors: Jürgen Mihm

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-81432-6

  • Publisher: Deutscher Universitätsverlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag GmbH, Wiesbaden 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8244-7701-2Published: 29 April 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-322-81432-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 249

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Innovation/Technology Management

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