BU385 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: User Friendly, Remanufacturing, Quality Function Deployment
Document Summary
There is a link between the design of goods and services and the success of an organization. Product design is usually expensive and time consuming and many new product ideas die before being marketed. Product design determining the form and function of the product. Products are redesigned to invigorate their demand and to take advantage of new technology. There are four elements to rapidly create new goods and services and to bring them to consumers: Product approval committee, structured development process, core teams, and phase reviews. The product approval committee consists of top management and oversees and directs the design/development activities. Core teams are cross functional teams empowered to plan and lead the design/development projects from idea to commercialization. Phase reviews are milestones during a new product design/development project when the progress of the core team is reviewed by the product approval committee. The structured development process is the use of project management techniques.
