Realising design engineering capability across distributed enterprise networks
Realising design engineering capability across distributed enterprise networks
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跨分布式企业网络实现设计工程能力
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2013
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R. Thorpe
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A. McKay;R. Baker;S. Kundu;A. Pennington;R. Thorpe
提高生产力是许多工程组织战略的重要组成部分。领先的工程公司已经采用了一系列方法来提高其内部供应商网络的生产力。下一个改进机会在于外部供应商网络的生产力。外部和内部供应商网络之间的差异导致了许多管理问题。本文主要涉及其中两个问题。首先，外部供应商网络（多个独立组织）的组成导致网络的总体接近度大大降低，即外部网络更加异构。其次，组成网络的组织的战略目标不太可能与内部供应商网络保持一致。这些问题与以能力为基础的战略观点有关，这种观点关注的是企业内部运作的动态过程，以及这些过程的配置方式，以提供“卓越”的组合，从而提供竞争对手无法轻易复制的竞争优势。本文报告了研究的早期结果，该研究将新产品引入系统的原则应用于供应商网络的设计，以期减少供应商能力评估过程中的可变性，从而减少供应商网络绩效风险。
Increasing productivity is a vital part of many engineering organisations’ strategies. Leading engineering firms have adopted a range of approaches to improve the productivity of their internal supplier networks. The next improvement opportunity lies in the productivity of external supplier networks. A number of management issues result from differences between external and internal supplier networks. This paper relates primarily to two of these issues. Firstly, the composition of external supplier networks (multiple independent organisations) results in overall proximities of the network being substantially lower, ie, the external networks are more heterogeneous. Secondly, the strategic goals of the organisations that form the network are unlikely to be aligned to the same extent as internal supplier networks. These issues link to a capability-based view of strategy, one which concerns itself with the dynamic processes operating within a firm and the way these are configured to offer ‘superior’ combinations that deliver competitive advantage which competitors cannot easily copy. This paper reports early results from research that applied principles from new product introduction systems to the design of supplier networks with a view to reducing variability in supplier capability assessment processes and, as a result, supplier network performance risks.