| dc.description.abstract | The majority of global notebook PCs is designed and manufactures by Taiwan’s enterprises. Product design capability obviously will be affected the enterprise future development by lacking of R&D human resources, which will hinder the progress of its industry investment seriously. Hence it’ll threaten Taiwan technology industry long term development.
Taiwan took the 3rd place of global info-tech product supplier since 1995. Through the successful experience as electronic product manufacture, enterprises amplify their competitiveness with R&D and design capability. The enhancement of Taiwan makers, brought the strategy evolvement to the international OEMs, like Dell, HP, Toshiba and Acer. OEMs no longer took control of the R&D and design role. Taiwan enterprises transformed from pure manufactures to ODMs successfully.
The notebook PCs used to combine several daughter boards to complete a full function computer. High tech evolution, integrated boards in core logic chipsets, to enhance the development of one full function board instead of the various modules. It goes with effecting that the innovation of semiconductor in design and packaging leading the notebook PCs to the trend of integration.
Mobility, under a small cabinet of notebook PC, how to make its performance same as desktop, are depend on R&D abilities to the growth and expansion of a company. How project execute, increase quality, and measure achievement of R&D project management are becoming profoundly impact of the company in this study case. Based on above research background and motive, research goals as follows:
1. How to well manage internal and external resources to intensify competitive and bring sales growth.
2. Analyze factors of product design and study the published documents to explore crucial points of R&D project management. Thus the company of study case retrieves the preferable mode of project management.
3. Standard project management activities such as planning, organizing, executing control, human resources and KPI evaluation, whether is applicable to NB R&D project management.
This research is via case study way, aim at the NB Business Group of the study company to investigate performance of NB project management. Exploring the NB PC market competitor situation, searching the trend of new tech and development of product, reviewing R&D project management developing process of the case company are structures of this study. Herewith connotation of project management, chooses the new R&D projects, analyzes of implementation the R&D process, as well as compared with the major customers product R&D process, then analyzes a R&D project management with the entire R&D team’’s relations. Meanwhile, appraised by the organization and the talented person, this case study has conducted company’s product strategies, and newly technology as well as the execution result, in order to find factors of the influence R&D achievement. The findings are as follows:
1. Weekly review meeting
Each new R&D case specification are many, demanding team work of hardware, mechanism for NB, software, testing and quality departments. Weekly review meeting for the project progress, teams can engage root cause and lesson learn for every faulty. The six project cases each performed at least one weekly internal meeting to align progress of the project. Also, one weekly meeting reviewed with customers for the progress and communication.
2. Time – Tight schedule of new product development
A compacted milestone leads to high pressure to the project team members. No enough time to absorption of profession knowledge and comprehension. In case cut in an immature technology and develop the new products immediately, it does not mean that extended project development time is able to reduce the project difficulties.
3. Cross projects team work
Common design is an advantage to reduce, prevent mistake and save resources. Diversity of technological knowledge is benefit to the project development.
4. Complexity of shipping BOM specifications
Limited choices to customers on shipping configuration can improve product quality and decrease customer service cost expenses.
Restriction of time and finance, this study only take notebook PC company as the research object. The findings are possibly unable to extend to companies in other industries. Thus, suggested the advanced researchers may consider carries on by other industries or implement on the cross industrial comparisons. | en_US |