On the Market Aspect of Product Program Design: Towards a Definition of an Architecture of the Market

Christian Lindschou Hansen, Niels Henrik Mortensen, Lars Hvam

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    Abstract

    An often overlooked aspect of architecture based product development, is the market aspect. However, without focusing the scope of the product family and ensuring an appropriate layout of product families, variants and features across the product program offerings, experiences show that architecture based product families become rigid, unfocused, prepared for yesterday’s market situation, and ultimately lack profitability. This paper will propose to expand the existing notion of coordinating product and production architectures as a means to develop profitable architectures by including an architecture of the market. This is to be interpreted as the ‘market perspective’ of the product family referring to the design of the product family from the market’s point of view. The main result of this paper is the suggestion of a definition of a market architecture with an articulation of its elements, relations, hierarchical nature and raison d’être. Three action research studies show that defining the market architecture serve as a feasible and operational means of addressing the market aspects in architecture development.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDesign 2012. Proceedings of the 12th International Design Conference
    Volume1
    PublisherDesign Society
    Publication date2012
    Pages1699-1708
    ISBN (Electronic)9789537738174
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    Event12th International design conference - Hotel Croatia, Dubrovnik, Croatia
    Duration: 21 May 201224 May 2012
    Conference number: 12
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    Conference

    Conference12th International design conference
    Number12
    LocationHotel Croatia
    Country/TerritoryCroatia
    CityDubrovnik
    Period21/05/201224/05/2012
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    Keywords

    • Market architecture
    • Product architecture
    • Product program design
    • Product family
    • Platform

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