Evaluating design performance

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Companies agree that good product design provides competitive advantage and is a factor determining corporate performance. However, design managers and consultants have yet to come up with tools and methods to evaluate design performance. One of the difficulties they encounter in the development of design performance measures is the span of design's function over a product's life cycle. The diffusion of the design activity from the research and development department to the manufacturing department and finally, to the marketing department makes evaluating design performance difficult.

Evaluation, Industrial design, Business success

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Putting core competency thinking into practice

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Executives who are asked to identify their organization's core competencies often find this task to be very problematic. One reason for this is that while core competency theory has received wide acceptance, the methods needed for its application in the commercial sphere are not as clear-cut as many executives might wish. A new methodology for conducting a core competency assessment is therefore put forward to help solve this problem. The methodology is applicable for both technical and non-technical fields and can be used to develop an integrated technology strategy.

Methods, Strategic planning (Business)

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Enabling innovative thinking: fostering the art of knowledge crafting

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Promoting creative thinking is seen as an essential part of knowledge crafting and factors to be considered in planning include information systems, networking, crafting knowledge, sharing and integrating knowledge, new measures and new processes. There should be further research into the development, deployment and utility of knowledge tools within organizations and researchers will be tasked with determining the abovementioned factors.

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Management Science, Planning, Business creativity

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