Personnel
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Work environment |
Motivation and individual interests (MII) |
Willingness to interact and to share knowledge. |
Organizational culture and climate (OCC) |
Disposition of the group to learn, company’s traditions, teamwork style and the feeling of comfort to learn as a team. |
Leadership and organizational strategies (LOS) |
Leaders’ encouragement approaches, work style with the teams and company strategies for human resources development. |
Capability development of staff |
Human and technical skills (HTS) |
Technical and managerial knowledge and communicative and cognitive capabilities of the person. |
Strategies and practices of team management (SPTM) |
Forms of recruitment, integration and collaborative team work techniques, incentive methods, knowledge management activities, etc. |
Relationships with R&D centers (RECE) |
Forms of cooperation and partnership with universities and R&D centers through joint research, consulting, patent transfer, etc. |
Technological
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Technological infrastructure |
IT and integration of databases (ITDB) |
Technologies for managing and storage documents, for identification of information sources and communication; level of access allowed to team members to information and knowledge sources. |
Equipment for project development (EQPD) |
Use of laboratory equipment and testing, CAD/CAE tools, virtual prototypes, and any type of equipment, whether material or software, which will be useful for the product development. |
Physical infrastructure |
Disposition of workplace and adequacy of infrastructure (WORK) |
Layout of the work for team integration. Size of the work environment and proximity to the equipment needed. |
Work Design
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Management practices of product development |
Product strategies (PROS) |
Strategic characteristics such as number of projects to be developed, product innovation efforts, types of family and product platforms, etc. |
Organizational structure and project activities (OSPA) |
Organization of project stages and tasks, use of management models for project organization, team arrangements. |
Use of methods and tools of NPD (MET) |
Tools used to support product development, such as QFD, FMEA, Fault Tree, etc. |
External Environment
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Context influence |
Relationship with suppliers and other companies (RESU) |
Cooperation and partnership with other companies. Integration with suppliers (co-development). |
Government policies (POL) |
Government policies to encourage innovation activities, partnerships between companies, incentives for equipment and technology acquisition, etc. |
Cultural background of people in the region (CUL) |
Characteristics of the region such as the culture of people at work, their level of education, etc. |