Overordnede kursusmål
With the course, we aim to prepare future designers, engineers and
managers for the way product development practice interacts with
the organization at large. We introduce students to a number of
relevant models, theories and methods that organizations use to
structure and manage their product development and innovation
efforts, particularly in the 'Fuzzy Front End' of
Innovation. More specifically, we focus on a number of modern
approaches and methods - such as agile development and user
experience design - that manufacturing companies are taking up in
order to drive their innovation efforts and overall competitiveness
and that are shaping the future of product development practice.
Furthermore, we aim to equip students with the capability to link
and use theoretical models and methods in the reality of product
development practice, a.o. by applying the theory in a case study
for a company. Students will be able to position themselves as
product developers or engineers in the context of an organization
and articulate their added value and ways of working.
Læringsmål
En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:
- Use models of organizational structure and product development
processes to analyze a company’s characteristics and dynamics in
relation to their own position as product developer.
- Analyse and discuss drivers and constraints imposed on design
and innovation processes in organizations.
- Understand modern models and methods and how they are used to
increase competitiveness and customer value.
- Discuss the interrelationship between the models and tools
presented in class and how to product development happens in the
context of an organization.
- Formulate research questions related to the course topics that
point to how they might be further researched
- Evaluate organizational structure and behaviour of a company in
relation to product development practice through performing a case
study
- Position their value and ways of working as product developer
in relation to an organization and its business objectives.
- Report research work in the form of an academic report
- Discuss and use an agile development model in the context of
Product Development
- Discuss and use a User Experience model in the context of
Product Development
Kursusindhold
The course presents key product development approaches that product
developers can use to involve and interact with professionals in
the organizational context, including the dilemmas organizations
are facing in their management of these processes. It particularly
focuses on the interface between organizational structure/behaviour
and product development practices. Product development is seen as
embedded in organizational processes and linked to business
strategies. This include the following themes:
- Organizational models that are used to describe organizational
structure and behaviour and their relation to product development
projects
- Change in the organizational landscape and its influence on the
way that organizations structure themselves and their innovation
efforts.
- Modern approaches and methods that organizations are taking up to
enhance their competitiveness and capability to create value for
customers.
- Reflecting on the role, limitations and value of the course
material in the reality of product development practice
Bemærkninger
Kurset er obligatorisk for studerende på "Design og
Innovation", som derfor har fortrinsret hertil.
Sidst opdateret
01. maj, 2019
