The spread of product development methodology: Exploring drivers and barriers in Swedish Industry
Paper i proceeding, 2014

The outcome of Design, Innovation and Product development research is often manifested as recommendations in the form of methods, but these do not always find their way into industrial application. This paper elaborates on drivers and barriers for the spread of product development methodology based on 41 interviews with managers, designers, developers and knowledge brokers. Results indicate a range of motives for adopting methods including e.g. coordination of different actors, generation of documentation, methods serving as tools for various design tasks etc. However; the value of tools must be seen in relation to local conditions and practices. The spread of methods occurs between and within organisations and may be actively supported while ideally “good tools spread themselves”. Participants call for methods to be scalable or malleable, guiding, informing and enabling without constraining or enforcing too rigid procedures.

Innovation

knowledge diffusion

Product development methods

Design

Författare

Viktor Hjort af Ornäs

Chalmers, Produkt- och produktionsutveckling, Design and Human Factors

Anders Warell

Lunds universitet

Andreas Larsson

Lunds universitet

Damien Motte

Lunds universitet

Santosh Jagtap

Lunds universitet

10th Biannual NordDesign Conference, NordDesign 2014, Espoo, Finland, 27-29 August

540-549
978-1-904670-58-2 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi

Annan maskinteknik

Tillförlitlighets- och kvalitetsteknik

Drivkrafter

Innovation och entreprenörskap

ISBN

978-1-904670-58-2

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