Innovative product and Value network co-design: context, problematic and some exploratory results
Résumé
Innovative product development and in-house process design have been largely studied and methods such as Concurrent Engineering, Integrated Product Development or Dynamic Product Development were set up to answer real needs of industrialists. However, no innovative product can be put on the market without a well-structured and well-organized network of firms. This simple idea influences deeply various aspects of collaborative enterprises. This paradigm, called here Co-Design, is studied by providing its most important context elements that managers should take into account. In this paper, we define basic concepts and also provide some exploratory results related to the co-design control primitives.