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

Spyros Vassilakis

Economics Working Papers from European University Institute

Abstract: 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 varaibles. Management of design complexity is identified with creation, choice, and application of design problem representations, divisions of design labour, and product architectures that provably eliminate waste.

Keywords: COSTS; TECHNOLOGY; MANAGEMENT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C69 D20 L23 M19 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 74 pages
Date: 1997
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