The Need for Business Agility Business agility is a source of competitive advantage – allowing organisations to adapt to new business imperatives, technology changes and various other industry forces. The ability to adapt quickly is the ...
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Systems Engineering enables product data traceability Organisations and people need simplification to manage complexity and derive ‘big or complex things’ into smaller and manageable systems – where a system is a set of interacting ele...
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Simply put, a PRODUCT is a good, idea, method, information, object or service created as a result of a process and serves a need or satisfies a want. A product has a combination of tangible and intangible attributes (benefits, features, ...
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Complex products and services Most complex products are both mechanical and electrical, with the balance rapidly increasingly moving towards innovative electrical engineering as new product and service differentiation. Competitive produc...
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Product and process development capabilities are not mutually exclusive. It is often thought that product innovation fundamentally differs from – and is at odds with – process innovation; however, they actually rely on similar competenci...
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Digitalization and new technologies contribute to better products and better services, but also better product and service development. This is driven by the fact that today both products and services rely on technology, and that techno...
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Understanding the source of disappointments can help to prevent them. Herzberg et al. (1959) introduced the two-factor theory of motivation: intrinsic motivators vs extrinsic hygiene factors. Improvement in some areas might help to ...
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Manufacturers are managing the development of innovative products and services that are required to succeed in an increasingly competitive and distributed global marketplace. Ten critical factors determine the ability of today’s busine...
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Problem statement Many business analysts and industry experts have raised looming local shortages of Engineering talent (specifically in the UK and Europe, North and South America), raising the possibility of a diminished capacity for in...
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Following on my earlier post on “3 KPIs to Assess the Success of Innovations“… It is critical to find the right balance between flexibility and control to allow future ideas to emerge and successful ones to be realised. Innovation system...
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