Abstract
This paper is intended to identify issues of concept design in a team, and in order to address the issues,proposing a framework for concept design in a team (FCDT). Teams inexperienced in concept design are often unable to design a quality concept within a relatively short time and through a visualized process. There is however a dearth of literature on such issues.This study started with identifying and categorizing issues of concept design, based on the literature survey and As-Is analysis. The issues included that 1) Team members inexperienced in concept design are not aware of the to-dos in concept design; 2) Team members inexperienced in concept design are not aware of how to consider the to-dos; 3) Team members inexperienced in concept design are not aware of the tools they could use for how to consider the todos identified in 2); 4) Team members inexperienced in concept design are unable to improve the quality of their Concept. A Concept is defined as the output of concept design.In order to address the issues, this study developed FCDT by creating a use case description based on context analysis and Checklands Soft Systems Methodology.Subsequently, this study evaluated, in 10 FCDT-based workshops and questionnaires to the participants after the workshop, the effectiveness of FCDT to address the aforementioned issues. One-day workshop was developed to help the inexperienced team members design a new business concept in a team. 43 teams of 223 employees from eight Japanese conglomerates in total participated in the workshops.The results suggested that FCDT was effective, in descriptive study, for addressing four issues in concept design in a team. This paper concludes with principal issues and areas of future research.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2017 6th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics, IIAI-AAI 2017 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Pages | 64-71 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781538606216 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 Nov 15 |
Event | 6th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics, IIAI-AAI 2017 - Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan Duration: 2017 Jul 9 → … |
Other
Other | 6th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics, IIAI-AAI 2017 |
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Country/Territory | Japan |
City | Hamamatsu, Shizuoka |
Period | 17/7/9 → … |
Keywords
- Concept design
- Framework for Concept Design in a Team (FCDT)
- Group work
- Workshop
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computer Science Applications
- Information Systems
- Information Systems and Management