Product design and development in small firms

Oakley, Mark

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“…Between the mid‐1980s and the mid‐1990s, scholars began to acknowledge the strategic relevance of design and pointed out how some organizations managed and used it systematically to gain differential advantage in the marketplace (e.g. Black and Baker 1987; Kotler and Rath 1984; Lorenz 1986; Oakley 1982; Walsh 1993). Early work in this line of inquiry was based on insightful case‐based research suggesting that good design could positively affect competitive performance (e.g.…”

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“…D. Ravasi and I. Stigliani Design results (75) Design and performance (22) Journal of Product Innovation Management (8) Abecassis-Moedas and Ben Mahmoud-Jouini (2008), Dickson et al (1995), Gemser and Leenders (2001), Hertenstein et al (2005), Perks et al (2005), Swan et al (2005), Swink (2000), Zhang et al (2011) Design Studies(5) Black and Baker (1987), Bruce et al (1999), Oakley (1982), Walsh (1993), Whyte et al (2003) Design Management Review (3) Borja de Mozota (2006), Cooper et al (2009) Design Management Journal (1) Dumas and Mintzberg (1989) Int. Journal of Operations and Production Management (1) (2006) Journal of Business Strategy (1) Kotler and Rath (1984) Technovation (1) Chiva and Alegre (2007) Books (3) Borja de Mozota (2003), Lorenz (1986), Walsh et al (1992) Design and consumer response (30) Journal of Marketing (4) Bloch (1995), Orth and Malkewitz (2008),…”

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Product Design: a Review and Research Agenda for Management Studies

Ravasi

Stigliani

2012

Int J Management Reviews

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link:http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/4607/ Link to published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j. 1468-2370.2012.00330.x Copyright and reuse: City Research Online aims to make research outputs of City, University of London available to a wider audience. Copyright and Moral Rights remain with the author(s) and/or copyright holders. URLs from City Research Online may be freely distributed and linked to. SUMMARYIn this paper, we review research on product design in the broad domain of business studies.We highlight established and emerging perspectives and lines of inquiry, and organize them around three core areas, corresponding to different stages of the design process (design activities, design choices, design results). We identify and discuss avenues for further research at the intersection of these bodies of research, and we argue that management scholars possess conceptual and methodological tools suited to enrich research on design and to effectively pursue lines of investigation only partially addressed by other communities, such as the construction and deployment of design capabilities, or the organizational and institutional context of design activities.2 IntroductionThe last decade has seen a rising interest in design among scholars in management and organization studies. While early contributions from management scholars mostly appeared on specialized outlets (e.g. Dumas and Mintzberg 1989, 1991), more recent work investigating the practices that underlie how products are designed has been published increasingly on journals of more general orientation (e. Previous reviews on design-related research in the broad domain of business studies (e.g.gBloch 1995; Walsh 1996; Noble and Kumar 2010) have generally focused on past work within specific scholarly communities (e.g. consumer behaviour, technology and innovation).Even a recent attempt to review and reconceptualise research on design restricted its search to marketing journals (Swan and Luchs 2011). In this paper, we provide a more comprehensive portrayal of past research in business studies, by systematically reviewing extant literature on product design in different fields of the business studies, including marketing, innovation, organization studies, and operations and technology, and, by doing so we outline 3 opportunities to enrich our understanding of the phenomenon associated to new avenues for research lying at the intersection of different streams of research.In the first part of the paper, we highlight established and emerging lines of inquiry, and we discuss their theoretical underpinnings and contributions to our overall understanding of the phenomenon. In the second part of the paper, we emphasize potential benefits to be gained by more intense cross-fertilization among perspectives and lines of inquiry. We point to promising avenues for further research, suggest possible research methods, and argue how...

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Stigliani

2012

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“…This enables the product designers to use all resources to the most optimized capabilities. As a result of which, more efficient product with less cost can be developed and thus improving sales [2]. According to Dewhurst et al [3], early cost estimation in product design is intended to form the basis for the design analysis for product design for efficient manufacture.…”

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Redesigning of Shopping Cart for Cost Reduction Using DFMA

2017

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Abstract. Product Design is a way of creating new designs for various products to be sold by a business to customers. It is very efficient as certain new designs and ideas can lead to products with less cost. The two methodologies of design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) include design for manufacture (DFM) which is concentrated on reducing the number of redundant parts for the ease of manufacturing and also design for assembly (DFA) which is concentrated on reducing the assembly time of the parts included in the design of the product. It also helps to reduce the inefficiency and waste in the product design. This paper includes a case study of manufacture and assembly costs estimation of a shopping cart which is widely used in supermarkets, department stores all around the world. The main aim of this paper is to reduce the overall manufacturing cost of the shopping cart. The CAD model of the different parts of the shopping cart was generated using solid works and then analysed using the DFMA software. The outcomes were studied and the re-design is done. The final assembly cost of the re-designed product was compared to that of the existing design and the results are discussed.

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Product design and development in small firms

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Product Design: a Review and Research Agenda for Management Studies

Product Design: a Review and Research Agenda for Management Studies

Redesigning of Shopping Cart for Cost Reduction Using DFMA

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