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The Berkeley-Haas Case Series. University of California, Berkeley. Haas School of Business eBooks, 2022

Advances in engineering education, 2016

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Sep 3, 2020

Social Science Research Network, 2007

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings

Proceedings of the …, 2011

abstract: Design practice and anecdotal evidence point to the existence of a chasm between busine... more abstract: Design practice and anecdotal evidence point to the existence of a chasm between business plan generation and the execution. The failure to including vital industrial design criteria in these plans prevents portfolio managers from managing risk effectively. At the ...

Process Systems Engineering, 2014

ABSTRACT Extensive vertical disintegration in the computer industry over the past decade has wide... more ABSTRACT Extensive vertical disintegration in the computer industry over the past decade has widely dispersed manufacturing activities both organizationally and geographically. Although most major computer companies have made significant strides towards proactively monitoring and managing their own internal environmental performance and have begun to integrate design-for-environment programs into their new product development processes, management of suppliers for environment soundness remains a challenge. These design-based organizations often have little direct interaction with, much less control over, their diffuse supply network making it difficult to completely understand the full set of issues associated with being environmentally-sound or to manage the overall system for environmentally-conscious performance. In this research, we explore the key issues associated with environmentally-conscious supplier management through specific examination of selected firms in the computer industry, and postulate approaches to better understand and manage environmental programs in dispersed networks

Energy Efficient Manufacturing, 2018

Volume 4: 18th International Conference on Design Education (DEC), 2021

Goal congruence, defined as agreement by all members of a team on a common set of objectives, has... more Goal congruence, defined as agreement by all members of a team on a common set of objectives, has been positively associated with team cohesion, team performance and team outcomes, including grades earned. Yet there is little in-depth study at scale and across types of engineering design and innovation classes in higher education that examines the goals students set for their work together. This research explores goal congruence in 857 teams involving 1470 students across 18 classes over four years. To examine goal congruence, we use student assessments of their level of agreement on their goals as well as evaluations of their written goal statements. Machine learning techniques are used to automatically identify goal types and congruence between goals. We find that goal congruence on student teams is relatively low, even when they assess it as high, partly due to variety in the types of goals they identify. We categorize the goals students articulate for their teams into grade-, co...

Make It New, 2015

California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: ... more California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companies and volunteers at nonprofit NGOs; global design consultancies and boutique studios; research laboratories and academic design programs. Together they form the interconnected network that is Silicon Valley. Apple products are famously "Designed in California," but, as Barry Katz shows in this first-ever, extensively illustrated history, the role of design in Silicon Valley began decades before Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak dreamed up Apple in a garage. Offering a thoroughly original view of the subject, Katz tells how design helped transform Silicon Valley into the most powerful engine of innovation in the world. From Hewlett-Packard and Ampex in the 1950s to Google and Facebook today, design has provided the bridge between research and development, art and engineering, technical performance and human behavior. Katz traces the origins of all of the leading consultancies -- including IDEO, frog, and Lunar -- and shows the process by which some of the world's most influential companies came to place design at the center of their business strategies. At the same time, universities, foundations, and even governments have learned to apply "design thinking" to their missions. Drawing on unprecedented access to a vast array of primary sources and interviews with nearly every influential design leader -- including Douglas Engelbart, Steve Jobs, and Don Norman -- Katz reveals design to be the missing link in Silicon Valley's ecosystem of innovation.