• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.1-28
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• 2007

The success of new product development is a key factor for getting competitive advantages. Marketing research has been investigating marketing capability, manufacturing technical capability, cross-functional integration, market knowledge competence, market orientation, and competitive environment as the key success factors of new product development. Recently, the role of IT infrastructure in enhancing new product advantage is assumed in the literature. However, the empirical studies on the role of IT infrastructure are lacking. The purpose of this study is to empirically exam the impacts of IT infrastructure on new product competitive advantage. In this study, IT infrastructure is conceptualized as the flexibility of IT infrastructure. Based on previous research, a conceptual model is established by incorporating the direct impact of IT infrastructure flexibility and its indirect impact through the key success factors on new product development. To empirically test the research model, data are surveyed from a pair of IS department and Marketing department of 92 consumer goods manufacturers. By employing PLS technique, the measurement reliability and reliability of research variables are tested and the path analysis is conducted to do the hypothesis testing. The path analysis shows that IT infrastructure flexibility has no direct effect on new product advantage, However, the indirect effect of IT infrastructure is found, which is mediated by marketing capability, manufacturing technical capability, cross-functional integration, and market orientation respectively. Hence, The flexible IT infrastructure increases cross-functional integration (H1), market orientation (H3), marketing capability (H5), and manufacturing technical capability (H6). All success factors of new product development excepts for competitive environment have a positive association with new product competitive advantages (from H10 to H14). Finally, the path from IT infrastructure flexibility to cross-functional integration, to market orientation, to market knowledge capability, and to new product advantage is found as the strongest path. These results indicate that the flexible IT infrastructure enhances information sharing with multiple departments and collaboration within a distributed innovation environment. The collaboration among departments positively affects the level of customer and competitor intelligence. The ability to obtain knowledge about customers and competitors makes firms to adapt to a changing environment quickly and to respond to customers' demands adequately. The flexible IT infrastructure also enhances the capability of organization to more rapidly respond to the changes in product design resulting in faster product development and reduced costs. In addition to, it enhances marketing capability by the two-way communications with customers and the analyses of various kinds of customer data. In brief, the finding of this study suggests that the flexible IT infrastructure allows many firms to pursue sustained new product competitive advantages. This study advances research on IT infrastructure in two important aspects. First, by Integrating marketing research and IS research, this study develops a conceptual model on the role of IT infrastructure in enhancing new product advantage. Second, it empirically finds the indirect impacts of IT infrastructure on new product advantage, which confirms the potential for the IS field to contribute to new product development research. The limitations of this study are also discussed to provide research directions for future research.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.389-402
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• 2011

의료조직 경영에 대한 기존의 연구들은 의료서비스의 품질 혹은 운영의 효율성을 위한 연구에 집중된 반면에 본 연구는 조직운영의 중요한 전략적 요소인 유연성이 의료조직의 경영에 어떠한 영향이 있는지를 연구하였다. 특히 의료조직의 수량유연성과 제품유연성을 대상으로 이들 유연성의 원천이 되는 내부 및 외부 자원의 활용이 조직의 재무적 성과에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 국내 병원들을 대상으로 표본을 추출하였고, 설계된 설문지를 이용하여 연구변수들의 측정 자료를 수집하였다. 연구변수들의 관계를 가정한 가설을 검정하기 위하여 회귀모형을 수립하고 분석한 결과 내부자원에 기반한 수량유연성이 성과에 직접적으로 영향을 줄 뿐 아니라 제품유연성의 내부자원 및 외부자원의 활용과 상호작용을 통해서도 성과에 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 반면에 외부자원에 의한 수량유연성은 조직성과에 유의적인 영향이 없는 것으로 나타났다. 이들 분석결과에 대한 설명과 관리적 시사점을 논의하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제16권1호통권94호
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• pp.75-86
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• 1999

In the assembly system, a pallet plays an important role of transfer and storage. As products become various, many different pallets are also necessary. Since some of them are redundant, a design of pallet with high flexibility is important. This paper suggests design alternatives, in designing pallets with high flexibility. The purpose of this study is to rationalize assembly process of mid-small size products. Every pallet has suitability values depending on characteristic factors of a product, and this value is determined by using AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) technique. As the characteristic factors of a product are changed, the suitability value is also changed. Design alternatives can be found by tracing change of the suitability value, which are based on correlation between the characteristic factors of a product and a pallet element.

• 경영과학
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.137-156
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• 1999

Flexibility is a competitive weapon in the changing environment. In order to pursue the flexibility, Korean manufacturing companies must define the flexibility dimension clearly, build the appropriate manufacturing infrastructures and measure the right flexibility performance indicators. This paper found out as follows. First, Korean manufacturing companies' flexibility strategy groups were formed three types. They are flexibility superior group, middle flexibility group and flexibility inferior group. Second, when different types of flexibility strategy group measured their performances, the degree of importance of flexibility performance indicators were different among groups. Third, when different types of flexibility strategy group were pursued, the different manufacturing methods such as product/process design technology, analysis technology, production system management technology and non technological factors were used. Lastly, when different types of flexibility strategy group were pursued, the actual flexibility performances were different among groups.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.218-226
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• 2014

상황이론을 바탕으로 유연성, 전략유형, 정보특성이 생산성과에 미치는 영향관계를 실증분석을 통해 규명하고자 하였다. 유연성에는 제품유연성, 믹스유연성을 적용하였고, 전략유형에는 저원가전략과 차별화전략을 적용하였다. 정보특성에는 재무적 정보와 비재무적 정보를 적용하였으며, 성과는 생산성과를 적용하였다. 연구결과, 제품유연성은 차별화전략에 유의적인 영향을 미치고, 믹스유연성은 저원가전략에 유의적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 전략 중 재무정보와 비재무적정보에 유의적인 영향을 미치는 것은 저원가전략만이 유의적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 재무정보와 비재무정보는 생산성과에 유의적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 파악되었다. 믹스유연성은 재무정보와 비재무정보에 간접적인 영향을 미치고 있고, 또한, 믹스유연성은 생산성과에도 간접적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 파악되었다.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.1-23
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• 2019

Purpose This study exploratory investigated the effects of the fit between forms of knowledge management(KM) strategy and types of information technology(IT) capability on the kinds of innovations such as product and process innovations. In this study, the openness of innovations that affects the innovations of a firm is considered. Design/methodology/approach For this empirical study, 104 manufacturing firms' data were finally collected through field survey. For the analysis of the data, cluster analysis and multiple regression analysis were employed. Findings This study demonstrated that when a system-oriented KM strategy is adopted, IT flexibility, which supports the implementation of a system-oriented strategy, is highly employed and utilized. It was also found that under a dynamic KM strategy, both IT integration and IT flexibility are highly employed. For the innovation of a firm, it was found that when a system-oriented strategy is employed and the flexibility of IT is highly adopted, the levels of product innovation are enhanced. Under a dynamic strategy, when the degrees of IT integration and IT flexibility are high, high levels of product and process innovations were empirically found. The impact of innovation openness on the innovations of a firm were partially demonstrated. Finally, the positive impact of the innovations on the improvement of performance in manufacturing firms were demonstrated.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.453-460
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• 2006

In this article, we introduce a new class of product codes based on convolutional codes, called convolutional product codes. The structure of product codes enables parallel decoding, which can significantly increase decoder speed in practice. The use of convolutional codes in a product code setting makes it possible to use the vast knowledge base for convolutional codes as well as their flexibility in fast parallel decoders. Just as in turbo codes, interleaving turns out to be critical for the performance of convolutional product codes. The practical decoding advantages over serially-concatenated convolutional codes are emphasized.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.80-88
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• 2019

사용자와 감성적인 소통(Emotional Communication)이 중요한 제품 디자인 영역에서 디자이너가 사용자 감성을 보다 명확하고 신속하게 파악하는 것은 제품 디자인 연구의 매우 핵심적인 활동이다. 이에 본 연구는 제품디자인과정에 감성측정의 활용가능성을 높이기 위한 방법으로서 행위적 감성 측정 방법인 표정 부호화 시스템(Facial Action Coding System, FACS)을 제품디자인 평가에 활용하였다. 표본으로 선정한 감성 제품의 Image Map을 활용하여 긍정적, 부정적, 중성 감성을 유발하는 제품 자극물 총 6개를 선정하여 20대 일반 제품 사용자를 실험 대상으로 FACS 실험을 진행하고 사용자 얼굴 표정을 통하여 자극물에 대한 감성상태를 분석하였다. 이러한 실험을 통하여 표정 부호화 시스템이 제품디자인에 적용 과정에서 "사용자 무의식적인 얼굴 표정을 기록할 수 있다" 등 장단점을 분석하였으며 "사용자 반응도 높은 제품 자극물을 선정해야 한다" 등 적용방안을 제시하였다. 본 연구는 향후 새로운 제품을 시장에 출시하기 전에 제품디자인 시안 단계에서 사전 사용자 감성 예측 방법으로 FACS를 활용성 검토에 도움을 줄 것으로 전망된다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 1998년도 Proceedings ICPE 98 1998 International Conference on Power Electronics
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• pp.865-870
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• 1998

We propose a multifunctional power line compensator (PLC) which can individually compensate multiple impediments at the same time. The PLC has the flexibility to share power to each compensation according to commands, this improving the working rate. We constructed a 100kVA PLC model including a controller with digital signal processor (DSP) to realize a multifunctional compensation were obtained.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.251-262
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• 1999

In the automated manufacturing systems, the problem regarding how to make production activities flexible is even more important and critical than that regarding how to product large quantities, and the more flexible, if possible, the manufacturing system is, the more competitiveness and profitable factors it gets. This research, therefore, concentrated on establishing the flexibility and evaluating performance on the manufacturing system, operational flexibility is considered because of enabling the manufacturing system to get both the improvement of production rate and the adaptive ability of environment changes. For it, we used the analytical tool, GSPNs, which is a kind of timed Petri-Nets. GSPNs is competent enough to consider practical situations just like operation priorities, machine failure, randomness, concurrency and so on. Through the GSPNs analysis, it is confirmed that in the manufacturing system with operational flexibility is compatible with the traditional performances such as production rate or mean waiting time.