The Effects of PDM Systems on Interdepartmental CollaborationAnd the Performance of New Product Development:An Example of the Company A and Company B

• Main Authors: Chi-Feng Lan, 藍啟峰
• Other Authors: Li-Ling Hsu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28185198474966288300

碩士 === 國立高雄第一科技大學 === 資訊管理所 === 94 === Abstract Today Business management has confronted more severe challenge than before. Facing the uncertainties of market and the product life cycle shorten constantly, all speed up the studies on new products development in order to improve the competitiveness of enterprises. Besides, from the literature review, we found the discussion of the successful factors of new product development in the academia is never cut off. A part of the important discovery is that Kahn (1994, 1996, 1997) pointed out that “Interdepartmental Collaboration” influences the performance of new product development significantly. For the further investigate into the impact of “Interdepartmental Collaboration” on the performance of new product development, this study conceptualized the “Interdepartmental Collaboration” as “Mutual Understanding” and “Resource Sharing” to analysis the discrepancy of impact on the performance of new product development. In addition, aim to the importance of time to market for new product, lot of firms invested plenty resources to formulate a suitable Products Data Management (PDM) system. But few research in the effects of PDM systems on “Interdepartmental Collaboration”. Under the trend toward globalization today, this topic has already become more and more important. This study is base on both contingency theory and sociotechnical theory v to develop our research model and conduct multiple case studies at two companies. Base on our research design, one target company comes from information/electronic industry and another one comes from traditional manufacturing industry. Inclusion of the successful factors of PDM implementation as to the impact on interdepartmental collaboration and new product development is our main purpose. These cases data gathered will yield the rich result of interdisciplinary and continue to enhance the cumulative tradition in MIS field.