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Development and integration of winning technologies as key to competitive advantage

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  • Armin P. Schulz
  • Don P. Clausing
  • Ernst Fricke
  • Herbert Negele

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Technologies are a critical issue within product development, since technologies are the foundation for successful products. Technology development has suffered from a fuzzy innovation process based on trial and error in a high‐pressure product development environment, often leaving no time for real innovation. Technologies developed under these circumstances seldom become superior, robust, mature and flexible—the criteria that are critical for technologies to provide competitive advantage. In this paper the idea is developed of a steady technology stream that is both separated from and appropriately integrated with the downstream product development. This enables companies to supply their product development programs with winning technologies at the right time. A four‐phase process framework to support and catalyze the technology development cycle is introduced and described. The proposed framework is based on an integration of six major development methodologies and aims at providing competitive advantage to companies by emphasizing superior, robust, mature, and flexible technologies. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Syst Eng 3: 180–211, 2000

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  • Armin P. Schulz & Don P. Clausing & Ernst Fricke & Herbert Negele, 2000. "Development and integration of winning technologies as key to competitive advantage," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 3(4), pages 180-211.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:syseng:v:3:y:2000:i:4:p:180-211
    DOI: 10.1002/1520-6858(2000)3:43.0.CO;2-H
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    1. Ernst Fricke & Armin P. Schulz, 2005. "Design for changeability (DfC): Principles to enable changes in systems throughout their entire lifecycle," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 8(4), pages 1-1.
    2. Timothy D. Blackburn & Thomas A. Mazzuchi & Shahram Sarkani, 2012. "Using a TRIZ framework for systems engineering trade studies," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(3), pages 355-367, September.
    3. Eun Suk Suh & Michael R. Furst & Kenneth J. Mihalyov & Olivier de Weck, 2010. "Technology infusion for complex systems: A framework and case study," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 13(2), pages 186-203, June.
    4. Paul G. Carlock & Robert E. Fenton, 2001. "System of Systems (SoS) enterprise systems engineering for information‐intensive organizations," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 4(4), pages 242-261.
    5. Rudolf Smaling & Olivier de Weck, 2007. "Assessing risks and opportunities of technology infusion in system design," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 10(1), pages 1-25, March.
    6. Daniel Stenholm & Daniel Corin Stig & Lars Ivansen & Dag Bergsjö, 2019. "A framework of practices supporting the reuse of technological knowledge," Environment Systems and Decisions, Springer, vol. 39(2), pages 128-145, June.
    7. Bohdan W. Oppenheim, 2004. "Lean product development flow," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 7(4), pages 1-1.

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