TY - JOUR T1 - Using Boundary Management for More Effective Product Development JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - John Thomson A1 - Vince Thomson KW - boundary management KW - collaborative product development KW - outsourcing KW - partnering KW - product development KW - review-approve process AB - Twenty years ago, most companies developed their own products in a single location and brought them to market themselves. Today, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are enlisting partners on a global scale as subsystem designers and producers in order to create and deliver new products into the market more rapidly and more frequently. This is especially true for large, complex products from the aerospace, telecommunications, electronics, and software industries. To assure the delivery of information across organizational boundaries, new coordination mechanisms need to be adopted (boundary management). In this article, best practices are described on how OEMs and partners self-organize and use agile, cooperative techniques to maintain daily communication among numerous internal and partner engineers to better coordinate product design and system integration. This article focuses on examples from the aerospace industry; however; these tactics can be applied in any organization to innovate at faster rates, to make delivery times more predictable, and to realize shorter product development timelines. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/734 IS - 10 U1 - Thoven Consulting John Thomson is a Senior Researcher at Thoven Consulting, and he graduated with a BA in Religious Studies and Psychology from the University of Toronto, Canada. He has contributed to research and writing projects in the areas of Lean, Six Sigma, healthcare, the food supply chain, and manufacturing. He has also developed programs for training how to use social media in a job search and for teaching computer technology to non-technical adults. U2 - McGill University Vince Thomson is a post-retirement professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Canada. He has been involved in research related to manufacturing and information technology for the past 35 years at McGill University and the National Research Council Canada. His research interests include manufacturing, real-time control, and process management. In process management, he has focused on new-product development, where he is currently working with many aerospace companies on issues such as change management, collaboration among partners, performance measurement, and the reduction of time to market. ER -