Innovation Management & Product Development (E)

First cycle, Bachelor

The students are able to:
• Determine the innovation needs of a company and develop an innovation strategy.
• Structure the innovation needs and define suitable processes with methods for further processing.
• Apply creativity methods.
• Analyze the most important framework conditions for product development and define requirements for the product development process.
• Design product development processes in line with the requirements.
• Apply product development methods

not applicable

• Strategic relevance of innovation (competitiveness)
• Structured handling of innovations (innovation-promoting organizational forms, corporate culture, management forms)
• Importance of product development for companies
• Scope and integration of product development in companies
• Design forms of the product development process and organizational forms
• Approaches in product development with regard to concept, concept and elaboration such as functional analysis, QFD, specification, FMEA, concept evaluation (quality approaches) and production transition
• Variant management and approaches for the representation of external complexity
• Management of target costs

• Anthony, et al. (2008): The Innovator’s guide to growth, Harvard Business Press
• Anthony (2012): The little black book of innovation, Harvard Business School Publishing
• Corsten, et al. (2006): Grundlagen des Innovationsmanagements, Vahlen Verlag München
• Hauschildt, Salomo (2007): Innovationsmanagement, 4. Aufl., Vahlen Verlag München
• Morgan, Liker (2006): The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process and Technology, Productivity Press
• Scheer, et al. (2005): Prozessorientiertes Product Lifecycle Management, Springer Verlag Berlin
• Gudehus (2012): Logistik 1: Grundlagen, Verfahren und Strategien, 4. Aufl., Springer Verlag Berlin
• Gudehus (2012): Logistik 2: Netzwerke, Systeme und Lieferketten, 4. Aufl., Springer Verlag Berlin
• Ehrlenspiel, Meerkamm (2013): Integrierte Produktentwicklung: Denkabläufe, Methodeneinsatz, Zusammenarbeit, 5. Aufl., Carl Hanser Verlag München
• Lindemann (2009): Methodische Entwicklung technischer Produkte: Methoden flexibel und situationsgerecht anwenden, 3. Aufl., Springer Verlag Berlin
• Conrad (2005): Grundlagen der Konstruktionslehre: Methoden und Beispiele für den Maschinenbau, 3. Aufl., Carl Hanser Verlag München

Final presentation and final exam

English

3

15

2.0

integrated Lecture

2

Prof. (FH) Dr. Christian Schmid

Second year of studies

vzMGM4

integrated lecture

Compulsory

not applicable