Experiences Based on 6 Years of the E-GPR Course
Roman Žavbi, Jože Duhovnik · Guidelines for a Decision Support Method Adapted to NPD Processes · 2007
The world is in the middle of the globalization process that, among other things, forces companies into acquisitions and mergers, and strategic alliances. This leads to the merging of geographically, organizationally and culturally heterogeneous human resources, including product developers. Market and organizational changes, the integrated product development process, and available information and communication technologies (ICT), present a number of challenges for future product developers. An appropriate response to these challenges is to create a solid basis for strategies to combat stronger competition, since existing educational programmes have provided this only to a small extent. European-Global Product Realization (E-GPR) course is one of possible educational programmes; the paper presents some experiences based on running the course.