Pub Date : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038507
M. E. Schofield, Mike Gregory
This research addresses product introduction dispersed across locations and companies. Mechanisms appropriate to integrate activities in collocated teams may not serve dispersed teams well. A semiconductor design licensor was studied in depth to explore how dispersed product introduction varies with uncertainty. We found that autonomous teams focused on sub-products (micro-products) were used rather than cross-functional teams in departments with high architectural uncertainty. Both types of teams were effectively dispersed across locations and companies. This suggests that small high-technology companies may find it easier to expand into new geographies and product lines than was previously believed.
{"title":"The impact of architectural uncertainty on product introduction in dispersed environments","authors":"M. E. Schofield, Mike Gregory","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038507","url":null,"abstract":"This research addresses product introduction dispersed across locations and companies. Mechanisms appropriate to integrate activities in collocated teams may not serve dispersed teams well. A semiconductor design licensor was studied in depth to explore how dispersed product introduction varies with uncertainty. We found that autonomous teams focused on sub-products (micro-products) were used rather than cross-functional teams in departments with high architectural uncertainty. Both types of teams were effectively dispersed across locations and companies. This suggests that small high-technology companies may find it easier to expand into new geographies and product lines than was previously believed.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115789160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038490
J. Smith
This paper looks at how to lead engineers so that they produce excellent and relevant work for the business while at the same time giving them an environment where they grow and thrive. The specific area looked at is the role of technical management in producing this environment. The findings are based on a combination of practical knowledge gained while managing engineers backed up with information from management and leadership research.
{"title":"How to motivate, control and keep good engineers","authors":"J. Smith","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038490","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks at how to lead engineers so that they produce excellent and relevant work for the business while at the same time giving them an environment where they grow and thrive. The specific area looked at is the role of technical management in producing this environment. The findings are based on a combination of practical knowledge gained while managing engineers backed up with information from management and leadership research.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131320644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038536
R. S. Lightfoot
Good systems engineering practices and procedures take time. The demands of the information economy market place have placed demands on systems engineering teams to develop systems faster while using an increasing number of new state-of-the-art, often unproven, components. Consequently, teams are often pressured to compress or skip over proven processes and check points in order to reduce the systems development life cycle (SDLC) time requirements. The risk of such an approach are information technology solutions which do not fully meet the customer's requirements, are difficult to operate and maintain, are less reliable than desired, are prone to errors and failures and/or do not migrate effectively to the next phase of development. Concurrent engineering has been used to help system engineering teams reduce the SDLC time requirements. Concurrent engineering is defined as a systematic approach to creating a product design that simultaneously considers all elements of the product life cycle, from conception through disposal..."/sup 1/ It is a critical part of the rapid application development technique as well as the joint application development technique. This paper recasts the SDLC approach through a comprehensive overview of an enhanced concurrent engineering process.
{"title":"Enhanced concurrent engineering: an approach for accelerating the systems engineering process while minimizing the risk","authors":"R. S. Lightfoot","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038536","url":null,"abstract":"Good systems engineering practices and procedures take time. The demands of the information economy market place have placed demands on systems engineering teams to develop systems faster while using an increasing number of new state-of-the-art, often unproven, components. Consequently, teams are often pressured to compress or skip over proven processes and check points in order to reduce the systems development life cycle (SDLC) time requirements. The risk of such an approach are information technology solutions which do not fully meet the customer's requirements, are difficult to operate and maintain, are less reliable than desired, are prone to errors and failures and/or do not migrate effectively to the next phase of development. Concurrent engineering has been used to help system engineering teams reduce the SDLC time requirements. Concurrent engineering is defined as a systematic approach to creating a product design that simultaneously considers all elements of the product life cycle, from conception through disposal...\"/sup 1/ It is a critical part of the rapid application development technique as well as the joint application development technique. This paper recasts the SDLC approach through a comprehensive overview of an enhanced concurrent engineering process.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132541044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038550
A. Madni, L. Costlow
After a severe downturn in its traditional aerospace and defense (A&D) markets in the early 1990s, Systron Donner Inertial Division (SDID), a subsidiary of BEI Technologies, Inc., decided to enter commercial markets with ground breaking new technology for a solid-state rate gyroscope, the Quartz Rate Sensor (QRS). The quartz Coriolis force technology was appropriate for a new automotive brake system application, but the company required radical changes in its operations to achieve successful penetration of the automotive market. After four decades exclusively in the A&D business, this decision had massive implications for the company's marketing and contracting approach, business system infrastructure, manufacturing operations, facility layout, quality system, supply-chain management, and engineering product development. Indeed, entry into the automotive market required changes that posed management challenges similar to a start-up company.
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Pub Date : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038563
Papavramides, Patrice Molinari
Managing and integrating technology in air navigation services (ANS) is an increasing challenge in particular for newly privatized or emerging service providers of various sizes in Europe. Within the next 10-15 years, the sector would have to integrate and deploy new technologies, improve safety, increase cost efficiency and quality of service while protecting environment and aligning to incoming European regulations. The authors propose a novel methodology in strategic planning for ANS, enabling the timely achievement of the aforementioned goals while creating value to the users and owners. The method is technology and performance driven. It models current and target situations, builds the roadmap between and applies a specific to purpose sustainability & performance assessment tool (SPAT), to secure resources necessary for the implementation of the strategic objectives. The paper provides a high level description of the methodology emphasizing on its foundation and theoretical background. It also draws conclusions and identifies issues open to further development.
{"title":"Technology driven sustainable strategic planning in air navigation services","authors":"Papavramides, Patrice Molinari","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038563","url":null,"abstract":"Managing and integrating technology in air navigation services (ANS) is an increasing challenge in particular for newly privatized or emerging service providers of various sizes in Europe. Within the next 10-15 years, the sector would have to integrate and deploy new technologies, improve safety, increase cost efficiency and quality of service while protecting environment and aligning to incoming European regulations. The authors propose a novel methodology in strategic planning for ANS, enabling the timely achievement of the aforementioned goals while creating value to the users and owners. The method is technology and performance driven. It models current and target situations, builds the roadmap between and applies a specific to purpose sustainability & performance assessment tool (SPAT), to secure resources necessary for the implementation of the strategic objectives. The paper provides a high level description of the methodology emphasizing on its foundation and theoretical background. It also draws conclusions and identifies issues open to further development.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125429165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038558
J. Duckles, E. Coyle
Strategic thinking has moved from developing strategies for fixed environments to creating strategies that enable organizations to adapt to and benefit from change. This trend is a reaction to the increasingly dynamic nature of a global economy driven by rapid advances in technology. In response to this trend, Purdue University has created the Center for Technology Roadmapping (CTR). The Center's goal is to enhance strategic planning by advancing the art and science of technology planning. A key feature of the center is a website at which industry associations, research organizations, and individuals can develop roadmaps that are stored in a common data format and posted for public access. As this archive of roadmaps grows, many unique opportunities will arise. In the area of roadmapping research, these include: data-mining across roadmaps from different industries; development of an ontology for technology roadmapping; and analyzing the dynamics of roadmaps over time. In the area of education, these opportunities include: new tools and topics for courses in technology planning and management; the use of roadmapping tools and techniques in undergraduate design courses; an Executive Masters program in technology roadmapping; and broader dissemination of technology information throughout society.
{"title":"Purdue's Center for Technology Roadmapping: a resource for research and education in technology roadmapping","authors":"J. Duckles, E. Coyle","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038558","url":null,"abstract":"Strategic thinking has moved from developing strategies for fixed environments to creating strategies that enable organizations to adapt to and benefit from change. This trend is a reaction to the increasingly dynamic nature of a global economy driven by rapid advances in technology. In response to this trend, Purdue University has created the Center for Technology Roadmapping (CTR). The Center's goal is to enhance strategic planning by advancing the art and science of technology planning. A key feature of the center is a website at which industry associations, research organizations, and individuals can develop roadmaps that are stored in a common data format and posted for public access. As this archive of roadmaps grows, many unique opportunities will arise. In the area of roadmapping research, these include: data-mining across roadmaps from different industries; development of an ontology for technology roadmapping; and analyzing the dynamics of roadmaps over time. In the area of education, these opportunities include: new tools and topics for courses in technology planning and management; the use of roadmapping tools and techniques in undergraduate design courses; an Executive Masters program in technology roadmapping; and broader dissemination of technology information throughout society.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126807367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038544
A. Kameoka, Y. Suzuki
This paper reviews a method of Delphi-Scenario Writing proposed to integrate the Delphi forecast results to formulate an enhanced innovation strategy, from the methodological point of view, by following the past 25 years of the small office/home use facsimile innovation process proceeded in Japan and spread world wide. This case study showed that the actual process of facsimile innovation was well described and the amount of sales was very close to the initial prediction in 1977. Consequently, it is concluded that the Delphi-Scenario Writing method provides a powerful practical methodology to develop a long range corporate strategic technology road-mapping by integrating technology forecast results and social marketing factors.
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Pub Date : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038503
T. Teichert, Marc-André Mittermayer
A considerable part of scientific and technological knowledge is coded in writing. In this context, automated text categorization can be regarded as a promising tool particularly for patent data analysis. In a real-life example, we show that automated text categorization can closely resemble the time-consuming categorisation job of an expert. By comparing different algorithms we reveal systematic differences in their results and show potential for further improvement.
{"title":"Text mining for technology monitoring","authors":"T. Teichert, Marc-André Mittermayer","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038503","url":null,"abstract":"A considerable part of scientific and technological knowledge is coded in writing. In this context, automated text categorization can be regarded as a promising tool particularly for patent data analysis. In a real-life example, we show that automated text categorization can closely resemble the time-consuming categorisation job of an expert. By comparing different algorithms we reveal systematic differences in their results and show potential for further improvement.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125546052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038511
L. Boulter, T. Bendell
This paper examines the definition of technology transfer and considers two key aspects for managing the process of technology transfer in the context of academic to industry research collaboration; cultural interface issues and intellectual property rights.
{"title":"Managing the technology transfer process","authors":"L. Boulter, T. Bendell","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038511","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the definition of technology transfer and considers two key aspects for managing the process of technology transfer in the context of academic to industry research collaboration; cultural interface issues and intellectual property rights.","PeriodicalId":355841,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127888189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2002-12-10DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038509
J. H. Bellefeuille, J. Rice
The ability to manage and transfer knowledge between parties is emerging as an important significant potential source of competitive advantage, but it is accomplished with significant difficulty. This paper focuses on knowledge management and transfer (KMT) in the context of university-industry relationships, and presents both university and industry perspectives. The learnings have broad application, as this is a common issue and concern for organizations attempting to gamer benefits from investments in these relationships. This subject is of increasing importance as industry recognizes the potential benefits from supply chain management (SCM) and hence the need for new solutions that has motivated many companies to invest in university relationships. Worldwide expenditure on logistics exceeds $700 billion USD. Efficient management of the supply chain is the logical next step to attempt to reduce this expense. Issues of KMT are noted, with emphasis on 'harvesting' knowledge for practical application within firms. Successful, as well as unsuccessful, attempts at KMT are examined. A series of examples and cases are used to illustrate learnings. Finally, a set of key success factors (KSF) for productive KMT is proposed for consideration. The title of the paper likens the challenge of bridging the gap between academia and industry with the famous Snake River Canyon jump by Evel Knievel in 1974. Spanning these two environments is akin to crossing a wide chasm with high risk and pain of failure.
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