Motivation -- Produktentwicklung in der Automobilindustrie -- Informationstechnologien - Produktivitätspotenziale im Systemkontext -- Komplementaritätsbeziehungen in der Produktentwicklung - Untersuchung am Beispiel der japanischen Automobilindustrie -- Personalpolitische Herausforderungen.

A company is developing a new product and wants an accurate estimate of the investment's ROI. For that the money in-flows and out-flows for the project have to be forecasted. And to develop those forecasts, the resulting product's life cycle must first be forecasted. In this chapter, we are...

Some consumer durables, such as automobiles, involve warranties involving two attributes. These are time elapsed since the sale of the product and the usage of the product at a given point in time. Warranty may be invoked by the customer if both time and usage are within the specified warranty...