Dario Alliprandini

FEI University · Department of Production Engineering

Remaining competitive and profitable in addition to meet environmental and social demands, mandated by regulation and valued by the stakeholders, is a current challenge for companies. This scenario has awakened the interest of academics in the association of sustainability with organizational performance, creating models such as SEM (Sustainability...

Aim The aim of this study was to analyze critical success factors (CSFs) for implementation of an incident learning system (ILS) in a radiation oncology department (ROD) and evaluate the perception of the staff members along this process. Background Implementing an ILS is a way to leverage learning from incidents and is a tool for improving patien...

Purpose The impact of product variety decisions on fill rate, inventory and sales performance in a consumer goods company has been examined. From a marketing perspective, it is possible to leverage sales, reach new segments and consequently increase competitiveness when there is a greater product variety on the market. However, operations and logis...

Although it is reasonable to admit that higher maturity in the continuous improvement practice may generate greater contributions to service operations competitiveness, there is little or hardly any discussion aiming to understand this relationship. Therefore, this paper proposes, in an explanatory form, a reflection on this research field by inves...

O principal objetivo deste estudo foi examinar como as empresas estão aplicando as práticas de manufatura enxuta (LM) combinadas com as características da Tecnologia da Informação (TI), a interação entre TI e LM e os resultados obtidos em termos de desempenho operacional. A aplicação da TI e os princípios da manufatura enxuta foram vistos por algun...

The continuous improvement programs and innovation have been stimulated and widely deployed due to the importance to the competitiveness of the organisations, being subjects of interest in several studies. However, there are few researches on the relationship between continuous improvement programs, such as Lean, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma, and t...

Purpose: This paper examines the use of integration mechanisms in two innovation activities relationships: between exploitation product innovation and exploration product innovation, and between exploitation process innovation and exploration product innovation. It also identifies the benefits generated by the use of integration mechanisms. Design...

This paper describes a study of the effectiveness of Lean and Six-Sigma improvement projects. The purpose of this study is to analyse and compare improvement projects in Lean and Six-Sigma contexts based on two groups of variables – resources and results of projects. The variables related to the resources are financial investment, time, complexity...

A competição entre organizações e nações torna cada vez mais importante a inteligência competitiva (IC) e o desenvolvimento dos profissionais para a consolidação dessa atividade. O objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar o perfil de competências do profissional de IC no Brasil, com vistas ao estabelecimento do processo de gestão de pessoas por compet...

The competition between organizations and nations increasingly demands the Competitive Intelligence activities and the development of their professionals. The aim of this research is to identify the competence profile of the professionals involved with Competitive Intelligence in Brazil, towards establishing a process of Competence Based Management...

New Product Development (NPD) process is a source of competitive advantage in nowadays global and ever-changing markets. Its continuous improvement is fundamental for keeping this advantage in the long run and depends on how fast and effectively the organisation learns from single and specific projects. Organisational Learning in the NPD process is...

Com o intuito de contribuir para o aumento da eficiência e eficácia das unidades de inteligência competitiva (IC) no âmbito da gestão de pessoas, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo geral desenvolver um modelo para mapear conhecimentos, habilidades e atitudes de profissionais de IC, com vistas ao estabelecimento do processo de gestão de pessoas...

With the aim of contributing to the improvement of efficiency and effectiveness of units of Competitive Intelligence (CI) in the area of people management, the goal of this study was to develop a model for mapping knowledge, abilities and attitudes of CI professionals, with a view to establishing the process for competence-based management. The met...

This paper presents the empirical findings of survey on practices and management trends of product development process management in the Brazilian auto-parts industry. Thirty two companies, from 120 companies which carry out product development activities, answered the questionnaire, each of theses 32 companies was visited and the interviews were c...

This paper presents the empirical findings of survey on practices and management trends of product development process management in the Brazilian auto-parts industry. Thirty two companies, from 120 companies which carry out product development activities, answered the questionnaire, each of theses 32 companies was visited and the interviews were c...

This paper presents the results of a research survey taken among managers who have responsibility for product development in Brazilian autoparts companies. This research is an investigation about management practices in the product development process (PDP). Some management issues were examined, such as reference models, organisational structure, p...

The development of new products has become the focal point of industrial competitiveness and today is considered a business process based on multidisciplinary knowledge. Because the success of this process depends on the systematic management of knowledge, a solution to help professionals and researchers interact, thereby facilitating their integra...

Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa descritiva e exploratória realizada em três empresas da indústria de autopeças, certificadas com ISO 9000 e QS 9000, a fim de identificar competências essenciais para melhoria contínua da produção. As principais observações encontradas foram: as empresas há muito vêm estruturando uma sistemática e...

Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa descritiva e exploratória realizada em três empresas da indústria de autopeças, certificadas com ISO 9000 e QS 9000, a fim de identificar competências essenciais para melhoria contínua da produção. As principais observações encontradas foram: as empresas há muito vêm estruturando uma sistemática e...

Summary form only given as follows. This paper presents the results of an ongoing study about the relationship between integration, continuous improvement and learning in the product development process. The study was conducted in four Brazilian companies from the automotive industry. The variables were analyzed by a matrix to compare them with the...

Summary form only, as given. The concept of learning organizations or of the organizational learning issue began in 1977 with Cris Argyris. Since then, several authors have treated the theme with different approaches. Although, any that is the adopted concept, it requests that the company develops abilities, turn itself to learning and promote chan...

Business Modelling represents a broad and precise way of understanding the business scene considering that it designs, details and organizes the information related to the company's business processes. Such data (strategic, functional and operational), which has been compiled and represented by the enterprise model, may serve as the basis for the s...

In the last years, because of the reappreciation of the strategic role manufacture plays, undertaking steps to improve the manufacturing sector of organizations has become common practice. It is thus desirable that these steps be in syntony with the strategic objectives of the company. However, the search for improvements in the production sector f...

The competitiveness among food companies has increased and developing products has become a key factor for organizational success. This requires a better understanding of product development process management, its practices, how activities are sequenced, how work is organized, and how problems are solved. This paper aims to help fulfill the necess...

Resumo A intensa competição empresarial resultou na procura de soluções criativas, melhorias contínuas em produtos e processos e na busca constante por inovação tecnológica. As organizações de hoje têm que se adaptar continuamente, desenvolver e inovar. Os princípios sobre aprendizagem organizacional e a redução do ciclo de vida de novos produtos s...

In the last years, because of the reappreciation of the strategic role manufacture plays, undertaking steps to improve the manufacturing sector of organizations has become common practice. It is thus desirable that these steps be in syntony with the strategic objectives of the company. However, the search for improvements in the production sector f...

This paper presents the results of an exploratory investigation research within manufacturing companies which had their quality systems certified. This research was accomplished to identify the necessary core competencies that may advance the development of the processes improvement activities in the production. Furthermore, it is important to veri...

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