Operational excellence competence development of a product development manager : case Nokia Devices Jyväskylä hardware production development management
Siitonen, Tiina (2008)
2008
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202503043650
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202503043650
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Nokia Oyj is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Company makes a wide range of mobile devices with services and software. Nokia Devices unit is responsible for developing the best device portfolio for the marketplace, including sourcing of the components.
In Nokia Oyj a company wide organizational change was made in the beginning of the year 2008, causing a structural change to device hardware development activities. Product development organization was transferred following earlier course to become a stream based organization instead of being project organization focused. Managing hardware product development was facing new challenges when the work specification changed from mainly project management to the highly networked content and organization management. This research is mapping product development hardware product managers' operative excellence competence development needs based on this new work specification. Goal of the research was also to strengthen competence map for the role description and by that enable improvement of the common competence based role description for all hardware product development managers.
The research method is a qualitative research, where mapping of the required competencies and skills is done by using a workgroup method combined with the theoretical background.
The research results point to seven significant competence areas that are supported by the theory and the empirical work almost unanimously. Based on this research, the goal is to develop researched team's individuals' skills in these competence areas and to continue the development of the hardware product development manager's competence based role description. Later it is also possible to expand research further to other equivalent teams and by that to improve product development operative excellence and the role descriptions of the whole company based on this research.
In Nokia Oyj a company wide organizational change was made in the beginning of the year 2008, causing a structural change to device hardware development activities. Product development organization was transferred following earlier course to become a stream based organization instead of being project organization focused. Managing hardware product development was facing new challenges when the work specification changed from mainly project management to the highly networked content and organization management. This research is mapping product development hardware product managers' operative excellence competence development needs based on this new work specification. Goal of the research was also to strengthen competence map for the role description and by that enable improvement of the common competence based role description for all hardware product development managers.
The research method is a qualitative research, where mapping of the required competencies and skills is done by using a workgroup method combined with the theoretical background.
The research results point to seven significant competence areas that are supported by the theory and the empirical work almost unanimously. Based on this research, the goal is to develop researched team's individuals' skills in these competence areas and to continue the development of the hardware product development manager's competence based role description. Later it is also possible to expand research further to other equivalent teams and by that to improve product development operative excellence and the role descriptions of the whole company based on this research.