Competitive Factors

General goals of product and project development: High system performance; high quality; low cost; fast time-to-market/time-to-completion. Competitive strategy improved by: Lowering costs through web-enabled procurement of goods and services. Just-in-time delivery of inventory. Concurrent development of project subsystems. Improved communication among project participants -- everyone needs to know what they are supposed to be working on, and when it's due! Organizational structure that promotes quality control -- give all employees responsibility and feeling of ownership in business objectives.

Section 1-2: November, 2001.