Design and development of innovative quality function deployment model

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-222

  Sankaran, R A ^a   Senthil, V ^b   Devadasan, S R ^c   Pramod, V R ^d  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (India)

^b Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning   (India)

^c PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d NSS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

HoQ; House of Quality; Idea generation and implementation study; IM; Innovation Management; QFD; Quality Function Deployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249132044     PISSN: 17510252     EISSN: 17510260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2008.016653     Document Type: Article

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