Autore
Vassilakis, Spyros

Titolo
Managing design complexity to improve; on cost, quality, variety and time-to market performance variables
Periodico
European University Institute of Badia Fiesolana (Fi). Department of Economics - Working papers
Anno: 1997 - Fascicolo: 35 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 73

This paper contains a model of waste elimination through design. It, argues for the importance of managing design complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and lime-to-market performance variables. Management of design complexity is identified with creation, choice, and application of design problem representations, divisions of design la.bor, and product architectures that provably eliminate waste. The paper's thesis is illustrated with a comparison of Toyota's technology strategy (based on waste elimination) to that of General Motors (based on frontier- shifting investment).



Testo completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/644

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