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Masters Degree Engineering Management Assignment Strategy, Collaboration, Knowledge Generation, Continuous Process Improvement and Innovation play a crucial role in ew Product development in SMME!s" Analyse t#is statement by loo$ing at eac# o% t#ese components individually as well as #ow t#ey are lin$ed to eac# ot#er" &it# t#is in%ormation %orm a model t#at can be applied to SMME!s so t#at t#ey remain sustainable" 'Ma(" o% )* pages+ Students #ave to do %ieldwor$ at, at least , Small Engineering companies" -ormal .eading %or t#e course/ ew 0enture Creation by 1immons"

Suggested readings %or t#e assignment/ Albrig#t, 1"2" and .ot#, 3"P" '4556+, 71#e measurement o% 8uality costs/ an alternative paradigm9, Accounting 3ori:ons, 0ol" ; o" ;, pp" 4<=6>" Angel, 2"C" and C#andra, M"?" '6**4+, 7Per%ormance implications o% investments in continuous 8uality improvement9, International ?ournal o% @perations and Production Management, 0ol" 64 44" Berry, Donna, .esearc# and Development survey, Ingredient -orces 6**6 part II, &eb document" Available/ www"dairy%oods"comAarticlesA6**6A*6*6A*6*6ing"#tm 'May 6**6+ B#att, Ganes# D", In%ormation dynamics, learning and $nowledge creation in organisations, 1#e 2earning @rganisation, volume >, no 6, 6***, pp C5=55, MCB Dniversity Press, ISS *5;5=;)>) o" 4A6, pp" 4=

Burgelman, .obert A"E Maidi8ue, Modesto A"E &#eelwrig#t, Steven C", Strategic Management o% 1ec#nology and Innovation, second edition, ISB *=6<;=*546C=<, 455;

C#ang, ."F" '455)+, Continuous Process Improvement, .ic#ard C#ang Associates, Inc, Irvine, CA" Cooper, ?uett .", A multidimensional approac# to t#e adoption o% innovation, Management Decision, volume ,;, no C, 455C, pp )5,=<*6, MCB Dniversity Press, ISS **6<=4>)>

Diallo, A", K#an, G"D" and 0ail, C"-" '455<+, 7Cost o% 8uality in t#e new manu%acturing environment9, Management Accounting, 0ol" >> o" 6, pp" 6*=<" Dic$son, K"E"E 3adHimanolis, A", Innovation and networ$ing amongst small manu%acturing %irms in Cyprus, International ?ournal o% Entrepreneurial Be#aviour I .esearc#, volume ), no 4, 455C, pp" <=4>, ISS 4,<<=6<<)

Gupta, M" and Campbell, 0"S" '455<+, 71#e cost o% 8uality9, Production and Inventory Management ?ournal, 0ol" ,; o" ,, pp" ),=5 3illE ?immyE McGowan, Pauric, Small business and enterprise development/ 8uestions about researc# met#odology, International ?ournal o% Entrepreneurial Be#aviour I .esearc#, volume <, no4, 4555, pp <= 4C, MCB Dniversity Press ISS 3u(table, 4,<<=6<<)

" '455<+, Small Business 1otal Juality, C#apman I 3all, Swindon, DK"

McAdam, .odneyE Stevenson, PeterE Armstrong, Gren, Innovative c#ange management in SMEs/ beyond continuous improvement, 2ogistics In%ormation Management, volume 4,, no ,, 6***, pp" 4,C= 4)5, MCB Dniversity Press, ISS *5<>=;*<,

Mosey, SimonE Clare, ?eremy "E &oodcoc$, David ?", Innovation decision ma$ing in Britis# manu%acturing SME!s, Integrated Manu%acturing Systems, volume 4,, no,, 6**6, pp 4>;=4C), MCB Dniversity Press ISS *5<>=;*;4

Par$er, 3amieda, Inter%irm collaboration on t#e new product development process, Industrial Management I Data systems, volume 4**, no ;, 6***, pp 6<;=6;*, MCB Dniversity Press, ISS <<>> .oberts, Edward B", Generating 1ec#nological innovation, ISB *=45=<*<*6,=4, 45C> *6;,=

.oussel, P#ilip A"E Saad, Kamal "E 1amara ?" Eric$son, 1#ird Generation .ID, Managing t#e lin$ wit# corporate strategy, ISB *=C><C)=6<6=;, 4554

1aguc#i, G" and Clausing, D" '455*+, 7.obust 8uality9, 3arvard Business .eview, 0ol" ;C o" 4, pp" ;<= ><" 1idd, ?oeE Bessant, ?o#nE Pavitt, Keit#, Managing Innovation, second edition, ISB *=)>4=5>*>;=), 6**4

0isagie, ?"C", SMME s! c#allenges in reconstructing Sout# A%rica, Management Decision, volume ,<, no5, 455>, pp ;;*=;;>, MCB Dniversity Press ISS **6<=4>)>