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PD Enabling Factors

Identifying Factors that Impact an Organization’s Crucial Outputs

We have isolated 140 factors that enable successful product development. Each factor impacts organizational performance to a different degree. Distinct sets of enabling factors improve these specific performance outputs:

  • Profit
  • Market share
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Organizational effectiveness
  • Product quality

Our PD assessment tool can help managers to determine which sets of factors improve the performance outputs most relevant to current conditions.

Project Leader: Warren Seering
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
seering@MIT.EDU
Key Research Paper:

Modularizing Architectures Using Dendrograms


Professor Seering's research interests include machine dynamics, engineering system design, and product development. Prior positions at MIT have included Division Head of the Design and Systems Division of Mechanical Engineering, Co-Director of the Nissan Cambridge Basic Research Laboratory, and Co-Director of the MIT Center for Innovation in Product Development.