Analysing telecom companies using the Toyota NPD model

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 544-561

  Harkonen, Janne ^a   Belt, Pekka ^a   Mottonen, Matti ^a   Kess, Pekka ^a   Haapasalo, Harri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Lean; Mobile communications; New product development; NPD; Product development; Requirements management; Telecom; Toyota

Indexed keywords

LEAN; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; NPD; REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT; TELECOM; TOYOTA;

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; BENCHMARKING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 64349109144     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2009.024392     Document Type: Article

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