A soft-systems methodology approach for product and process innovation

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 379-392

  Presley, Adrien ^a   Sarkis, Joseph ^b   Liles, Donald H ^c  

^a TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

IDEFO; Product and process innovation; Quality function deployment; Soft systems methodology

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT;

PRODUCT-PROCESS INNOVATIONS; SOFT-SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY (SSM);

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0034245185     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.865906     Document Type: Article

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