The Probe of New Product Introduction Projects by System Dynamics - an example of N Company

• Main Authors: Wei-Jui Cheng, 鄭暐叡
• Other Authors: None
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/a9w67b

碩士 === 國立高雄大學 === 亞太工商管理學系碩士班 === 102 === Failing to achieve project schedule and scope change is occurred when to implement NPI (New Product Introduction) projects. Because of many uncertain events may be happened in each phase of the projects. In order to resolve uncertainties, the project manager needs to consider every situation and to find possible solutions. This paper studies includes two steps, firstly, analyze the complicated behaviors of NPI projects by SD and to simplify it into a simple system, thereby to gain an understanding of the overview. Then nine knowledge areas in project management were applied to solve the key problems which identified. The key problems related to the NPI project in N company included capability of project members was not at right level and communication difficulty between project team and experts from foreign. After the problems have been identified, appropriate skills in nine management areas, such as human resource management, time management, communications management and risk management, were proposed to solve those problems. This paper is not only research application of system dynamics in project management and gives suggestions to improve performance of NPI projects, but also hopes that the results of this study may help project manager and management team to plan and to manage the projects well and can be a lessons learned for future relative projects.