Distributed Development and Product Line Decisions

Distributed development and product line decisions

Distributed product development is becoming increasingly prevalent in a number of industries. We study how the global distribution of product development impacts the profit-maximizing product line that a firm offers. Specifically, we formulate a model to understand the linkage between cost arbitrage as a driver of distributed development and consequent market implications such as customer perce...

Product Line Development

Incremental Product-line Development

Fundamental to the success of a product-line strategy is having some means to attain the global architecture that all products will share. Migrating to the architecture is often perceived as a difficult part of implementing the strategy. However, the technique presented here permits a low-risk, incremental development of the architecture via a process of negotiation. In effect, small scale prod...

Product Line Development – an Overview

Products with new features need to be introduced on the market in a rapid pace and organizations need to speed up their development process. The ordinary way to develop products, one at a time, is not time efficient enough and is costly. Reuse has been suggested as a solution, but to achieve effective reuse within an organization a planned and proactive effort must be used. Product lines are th...

Overlapping in Distributed Product Development

Market and technology changes have brought about new characteristics of product development. One of the most significant changes from the traditional to the new paradigm is the change from sequential and collocated product development process to overlapped and distributed process. This paper explores the appropriate overlapping policy in distributed product development. Firstly we developed a s...