A metric for agility measurement in product development

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 637-645

  Sieger, David B ^a   Badiru, Adedeji B ^b   Milatovic, Milan ^b  

^a Hyperfeed Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

AGILITY MEASUREMENT;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0033733696     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170008967422     Document Type: Article

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