Investments in design play a potentially significant role in new product development (NPD) although there is little … unanimity on the most appropriate or effective design strategy. Previous case-study based studies have identified three … alternative design strategies for NPD: design used as a functional specialism, design used as part of a multi-functional team and …

Investments in design play a potentially significant role in new product development (NPD) although there is little … unanimity on the most appropriate or effective design strategy. Previous case-study based studies have identified three … alternative design strategies for NPD: design used as a functional specialism, design used as part of a multi-functional team and …

Future automation and artificial intelligence technologies are expected to have a major impact on the labour market …. Despite the growing literature in the area of automation and the risk it poses to employment, there is very little analysis … which considers the sub-national geographical implications of automation risk. This paper makes a number of significant …

Automation has always played a significant role in the productivity and efficiency of agriculture. This paper explores … the role of automation on farms' technical efficiency (TE) in an expanding dairy sector. We use a representative sample of … their stochastic frontier. Our findings also suggest that automation has a heterogeneous effect on farms' TE depending on …

College Dublin (UCD) School of Information and Library Studies (SILS) prior to 2000. Design/methodology/approach – The history …