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Managing Design Complexity to Improve on Cost, Quality, Variety, and Time{to{Market Performance Variables

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  • Spyros Vassilakis

    (AUEB - Athens University of Economics and Business)

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This paper contains a model of waste elimination through design. It argues for the importance of managing design complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and time{to{market performance variables. Management of design complexity is identi¯ed with creation, choice, and application of design problem representations, divisions of design labor, and product architectures that provably eliminate waste. The paper's thesis is illustrated with a comparison of Toyota's technology strategy (based on waste elimination) to that of General Motors (based on frontier{shifting investment).

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  • Spyros Vassilakis, 2024. "Managing Design Complexity to Improve on Cost, Quality, Variety, and Time{to{Market Performance Variables," Working Papers hal-04814680, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-04814680
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    Keywords

    JEL classi¯cation numbers: C69 D20 L23 O32 M19 Cost quality variety time{to{market design complexity; JEL classi¯cation numbers: C69; D20; L23; O32; M19 Cost; quality; variety; time{to{market; design complexity;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • C69 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Other
    • D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • M19 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Other
    • C69 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Other
    • D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • M19 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Other

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