New Product Development and Production Networks

1. Front Matter

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2. Restructuring Product Development and Production Networks: Introduction to the Book

   1. Restructuring Product Development and Production Networks: Introduction to the Book

      • Ulrich Jürgens

      Pages 1-19

3. The Challenge of Time to Market: Responses by Industries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Shortening Lead Time through Early Problem-solving — A New Round of Capability-building Competition in the Auto Industry

      • Takahiro Fujimoto

      Pages 23-53

   3. The Machine Tool Industry: New Market Challenges and the Crisis of the Traditional German Pattern of Innovation

      • Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen

      Pages 55-65

   4. Turnkey Production Networks: The Organizational Delinking of Production from Innovation

      • Timothy J. Sturgeon

      Pages 67-84

   5. Making Large Teams Work Like Small Teams: Product Development at Microsoft

      • Michael A. Cusumano

      Pages 85-104

4. Comparing National-specific Approaches in the Machine Tool, Automobile and PC Industries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Communication and Cooperation in the New Product and Process Development Networks — an International Comparison of Country- and Industry-specific Patterns

      • Ulrich Jürgens

      Pages 107-147

   3. Reorganizing Process Chains in the German and American Machine Tool Industry

      • Inge Lippert

      Pages 149-180

   4. The Italian Machine Tool Industry Towards Product Development Networks

      • Secondo Rolfo

      Pages 181-197

   5. Changing Strategies and Processes in the Japanese Machine Tool Product Development

      • Masato Kobayashi

      Pages 199-223

   6. Reorganizing the Product and Process Development of an Italian Car Manufacturer

      • Giuseppe Calabrese

      Pages 225-258

   7. Toward New Product and Process Development Networks: The Case of the German Car Industry

      • Ulrich Jürgens

      Pages 259-287

   8. Involving Manufacturing Employees in the Early Stages of Product Development: A Case Study from the U.S. Automobile Industry

      • Carol J. Haddad

      Pages 289-312

   9. The New Product Development System of the Japanese Automobile Industry

      • Masayoshi Ikeda

      Pages 313-340

   10. Reduction of Development Lead Time Through Improvements in the Development Process and Innovations in Production Technology — Reconfirmation of Japanese-Style Supplier Relations. Evidence from a Case Study

       • Shoichiro Sei

       Pages 341-355

   11. Industry Hegemony and Company Product Development Performance in the Personal Computer Industry

       • Helmut Drüke

       Pages 357-385

5. Potential Use of Information and Communication Technology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 387-387

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   2. Information and Communication Technologies to Support Cooperation in the Product Development Process

      • Oliver Tegel

      Pages 389-406

Prof. Dr. U. Jürgens, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, is renown for his scientific work in fields like human resources, work organization and organization of production and development, especially for automotive industries. In this publication the authors from different countries discuss practical models of integration in development and production as realized in practice. Time-to-Market is the key for success, efficient integration of development and production necessary to reach the goal. Jürgens himself acts as a publication editor and creates a book reporting about the state of art in automotive and electronics industry. The publication is directed to scientists and is of interest to those practitioners, who have to develop the benchmarks for their own development and production.

• Time-to-Market
• concurrent engineering
• knowledge management
• manufacturing
• production technology

• Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH, Berlin, Germany

  Ulrich Jürgens

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