Product Development in the Socio-sphere

1. Front Matter

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2. Social Product Development: Introduction, Overview, and Current Status

   • Anna Peterson, Dirk Schaefer

   Pages 1-33

3. Co-Creation in Complex Supply Chains: The Benefits of a Value Driven Design Approach

   • Marco Bertoni, Hakki Eres, Jim Scanlan

   Pages 35-62

4. Semantic Association Systems for Product Data Integration in the Socio-Sphere

   • J. Lane Thames

   Pages 63-98

5. Evaluating the Level of Openness in Open Source Hardware

   • Venkat Mahesh Kumar Yanamandram, Jitesh H. Panchal

   Pages 99-120

6. Rethinking Service Design: A Socio-Technical Approach to the Development of Business Models

   • L. C. Beaumont, L. E. Bolton, A. McKay, H. P. N. Hughes

   Pages 121-141

7. It’s All About Relationships: How Human Relational Development and Social Structures Dictate Product Design in the Socio-Sphere

   • Charles Pezeshki, Ryan Kelley

   Pages 143-168

8. Social Media Coming to the Mall: A Cross-Channel Response

   • Bart H. M. Gerritsen, Klaus Solberg Soilen, Pieter Bas de Visser, Philip J. M. Hoogreef, Kimberly Hulst, Marloes L. Janssen et al.

   Pages 169-235

This book provides a broad overview of a number of game-changing paradigms that are anticipated to reshape 21st century product development. Topics including cloud computing-based design, cloud manufacturing, crowd-sourcing and mass collaboration, open source and social product development will be discussed in the context of advanced distributed and collaborative product creation. The purpose of the book is threefold: (1) to provide decision makers in industry with a solid base for strategic design and manufacturing-related process re-organization; (2) to provide researchers and scientist with the state-of-the-art from an academic perspective as well as a research agenda aimed at advancing the theoretical foundations of the field and (3) to serve as supplementary reading in design and manufacturing-related courses at universities and technical colleges.

• Cloud-based Design and Manufacturing
• New Business Models for Product Development
• Open Source Product Development
• Product Development in the Socio-sphere
• Social Product Development
• Engineering Economics

• George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

  Dirk Schaefer

Professor Schaefer has more than twenty years experience in computer-aided design, engineering and manufacturing, both in industry and academia. He has been an active member of the design communities in the US, the UK and Germany. Over the past ten years, Prof. Schaefer has conducted research on product modeling, variant design, product life-cycle management, design-with-manufacture integration, standardized product data exchange and digital and virtual engineering. His current research focus concerns the highly topical areas of cross-disciplinary integrated design of complex engineered systems, research at the forefront of cloud computing-based design and manufacture (CBDM), a key element of the advanced manufacturing movement, as well as the impact of social networking platforms and the Internet of things on next generation product development.

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