Designing for cost In an aerospace company
Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT.
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| author | Hammar, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Deming) |
| author2 | Brian L. Wardle and Roy Welsch. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/907712022-01-27T21:03:18Z Designing for cost In an aerospace company Hammar, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Deming) Brian L. Wardle and Roy Welsch. Leaders for Global Operations Program. Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Sloan School of Management Sloan School of Management. Aeronautics and Astronautics. Leaders for Global Operations Program. Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT. Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT. 38 Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-72). Companies take different approaches, and achieve different degrees of implementation, in designing products for cost. This thesis discusses Target Costing and its application at The Boeing Company. Target Costing is a design for cost framework that is widely used by auto manufacturers, but is still less widely used in the aerospace industry. This thesis observes the current state at The Boeing Company and provides recommendations for full implementation of Target Costing. Through research into best practices at companies that have implemented Target Costing, this thesis identifies five key enablers: culture, organizations involved, process, tools, and market. Additionally, this thesis discusses a potential barrier to implementation: organizational politics. Based on a project to implement a price visibility tool and on three value engineering case studies, this thesis identifies The Boeing Company's state relative to full scale Target Costing and provides recommendations for The Boeing Company to achieve full implementation of Target Costing through the use of the five key enablers. by Elizabeth Hammar. M.B.A. S.M. 2014-10-08T15:28:07Z 2014-10-08T15:28:07Z 2014 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90771 891395532 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 74 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Sloan School of Management. Aeronautics and Astronautics. Leaders for Global Operations Program. Hammar, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Deming) Designing for cost In an aerospace company |
| title | Designing for cost In an aerospace company |
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| topic | Sloan School of Management. Aeronautics and Astronautics. Leaders for Global Operations Program. |
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