Formulating Redesign Strategies for Product Evolution: A Proactive Approach to Managing Technological Innovation

在美国国家科学基金会创新和组织变革计划和GOALI的支持下，本研究的重点是开发一种智能产品表示法，用于可进化的设计，可以确定新的创新何时表明以前的决策有必要改变。决定何时重新设计产品是任何公司最重要的决策之一。 不正确的重新设计时机可能会导致各种问题和不良的市场反应。目前决定何时重新设计产品的战略通常是临时性的，可能会导致技术创新发生的时间与成功纳入产品设计的时间之间存在明显的滞后。研究人员正在开发决策模型，该模型将用于智能产品表示并生成重新设计的建议。这些决策模型在智能产品表示中的技术或业务约束发生变化时进行详细的权衡分析。这些模型包括决策变量、设计约束和评估标准，这些因素导致了目前使用的决策。该项目将开发一个多学科的课程序列，将在技术领域的管理纳入工程和商业课程的最新进展。

With support from the National Science Foundation's Innovation and Organizational Change Program and GOALI, this research focuses on the development of an intelligent product representation for evolvable designs that can determine when new innovation indicates that a change in a previous decision is warranted. Deciding when to redesign a product is one of the most important decisions made by any company. Incorrect redesign timing can lead to a variety of problems and poor market response. Current strategies for deciding when to redesign products are usually ad hoc in nature, and may result in a significant lag between the time a technological innovation occurs and the time when it is successfully incorporated into a product design. The researchers are developing decision-making models that will work on intelligent product representations and generate suggestions for redesign These decision making models perform a detailed trade-off analysis whenever technological or business constraints change in the intelligent product representation. These models incorporate decision variables, design constraints, and evaluation criteria that have led to the decisions currently in use. The project will develop a multi-disciplinary course sequence that will incorporate the latest advances in the management of technology area into engineering and business curriculum.