An IT tool for managing the product development process

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dc.contributor.authorKagioglou, Michail
dc.contributor.authorWu ,sung
dc.contributor.authorAouad, Ghassan
dc.contributor.authorLee,Angela
dc.contributor.authorCooper,Rachel
dc.contributor.authorFleming,Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-23T06:03:56Z
dc.date.available2024-01-23T06:03:56Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.descriptionThe British Property Federation Survey (British Property Federation, 1997) identified that one third of major UK clients are dissatisfied with contractor and consultant performance. Similarly, The Egan Report, Rethinking Construction (Egan, 1998), stated that the industry also suffers from low and unreliable profitability, insufficient research & development, and a lack of customer focus. Moreover, these problems typically relate to the industry's adversarial nature, and a profound co-ordination and communication system between the parties is much needed.
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT Throughout the last two decades a number of improved product development processes have been suggested that illustrate and clearly define the nature, scope and holistic representation of the issues involved in understanding and managing the product development process (PDP). The degree to which they have actually added value in the industry, even when lean principles have been incorporated, has been debated by many authors. Many agree that one of the main reasons for the above is that those processes/models are rarely implemented fully or the integrity of the embedded philosophy has been diluted through wrong adaptation. One such model of an improved PDP is the Process Protocol. This paper presents how the development of an IT tool can enable the easy and fast adaptation of the Process Protocol Model without loosing the integrity of the holistic approach and without diluting the Philosophies on which it was based. The IT tool adopts the Process Protocol model as a template with enough information that makes it appropriate but flexible enough to allow individual company innovations to be part of the model in a nonprescriptive nature. Keywords PDP, Process management, Process modeling, IT
dc.identifier.citationKagioglou, M., Wu, S., Aouad, G., Lee, A., Cooper, R., & Fleming, A. (2003). An IT tool for managing the product development process. In Proc. Eleventh Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction.
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.adu.ac.ae/handle/1/459
dc.language.isoen
dc.titleAn IT tool for managing the product development process
dc.typeConference Paper

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