Analysing organisational issues in cocurrent new product development

摘要

Organisation analysis and improvement techniques have been a field of study for many years with the result that there are a number of different methodologies ranging from purely mathematical models of analysis to heuristic models using simulation. This paper presents an overview of research carried out towards the development of a methodology and tool aimed at assising in the reengineering of the processes and organisation deployed in Concurrent New Product Development (CNPD) (NPD within a concurrent Engineering (CE) environment).