Title: The method for transforming a business goal into a set of engineering problems

Authors: Len Malinin

Addresses: Gen3 Partners, 10 Post Office Sq., Boston, MA 02109, USA

Abstract: Presented is a high level approach to engineering project management and, more particularly, a method for transforming business goals of a client into a set of engineering problems which, when resolved, make the business goals achievable. A guideline for selecting main parameters of value (MPVs) of an industrial product is discussed, and then a transition from MPVs to a set of physical and technical variables (parameters) responsible for the selected MPVs is shown. Improvement of the identified variables (parameters) can be achieved using inventive problem solving combined with traditional engineering methods.

Keywords: business goals; engineering; problem solving; main parameters of value; MPVs; stakeholders; decision making; coefficients of sensitivity; project management; physical variables; technical variables; identified variables; business innovation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2010.033350

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2010 Vol.4 No.4, pp.321 - 337

Published online: 01 Jun 2010 *

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