requirement for UK manufacturing industry. To achieve these goals, industry must adopt current methods in support of design for …The improvement of the quality of design and the reduction of failure related cost is seen as a crucial competitive … key areas of opportunity in design improvement using the main DFQ support techniques are reviewed and a framework for …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the influence of the creative industries on design education in New … primarily concerned with recent changes to design education and the ways in which universities and polytechnics are attempting … conclusion the concept of a “virtuous cycle” is used to describe the relationship between design education and the creative …

Strategic alignment remains a key area of focus among business executives. Methods exist with which to determine the … type of alignment a firm is following and there has even been research into the factors which aid and hinder the … achievement of alignment. What is currently lacking is a financial performance metric with which a firm can benchmark itself …

related to two generic accounting motives, namely internal management and external reporting. Design … reporting. Originality/value – The paper contributes to IC management literature by offering an alignment perspective and a …

integration of FM and CREM. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a review of FM and CREM literature, seven interviews …

Purpose – The importance of supply chain alignment has been discussed since the birth of supply chain management (SCM … literature on supply chain alignment in order to identify, and develop constructs for enablers to alignment, and an associated … set of hypotheses. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic approach has been taken to the literature review, which …

to account for embedded information seeking. Following Sharples, the paper treats writing as a design activity and … explore parallels between the psychology of design and information seeking. Significant parallels can be found and ideas from … the psychology of design offer explanations for a number of information seeking phenomena. Next, a design …