Critical Success Factors For IPD Management Process In Small And Medium Enterprises

The current development scale of Chinese small and medium enterprises is growing constantly,technology innovation ability is also constantly improving.Whereas,the low management level of many small and medium enterprises in the intense market competition environment,which is deeply impact on their business operation,especially in product development management taking extensive tool yet.IPD(Integrated Product Development)is been proved an effective product development and management mode through a large number of practice in the industry.Small and medium enterprises implement the IPD management system and framework can improve management level and competitiveness effectively.This disquisition uses the Method of Critical Success Factors to systematically identify the key success factors,which impact on the IPD execution in small and medium enterprises,besides analysis the influence of different ingredients on the IPD successful implementation,as well as the relationship between the factors.Through the research of this article for the small and medium enterprises which to provide theoretical basis and has a certain theoretical and practical significance for the progress of the implementation of IPD management framework.Through literature analysis and small and medium enterprises management environment analysis,combining business interview mode,this article inducted 25 key success factors.And then design the questionnaire,distribute to four companies in the implementation of IPD and cycling of 158 valid questionnaires,conducted a descriptive and exploratory analysis research of the questionnaire data.Through the descriptive analysis the results indicate that “IPD effective communication within the team collaboration”,“Companies pay attention to technology development and support”,“Product development enterprises through market research and prediction”,“Executives of IPD team group fully authorized”,“Effective identification of customer requirements and translated into product”,“IPD team knowledge sharing the product development process”,this six factors need to focus on and improve during the first stage of the small and medium-size enterprises IPD management innovation.Exploratory factor analysis to 25 factors according to the common characteristic is divided into six groups: enterprise support for IPD,degree of knowledge sharing,cross-functional IPD team building,the project management headship,enterprise strategic planning and other factors,for small and medium enterprises to effectively implement the IPD management provides a concrete train of thought.