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How to measure design contribution to the competitiveness of companies: models for analysis tool

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António Gomes,

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DPPI '11: Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces

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The research presented here, is aimed to design a tool to evaluate the degree of maturity of design intervention, and the investment return from applying design in production companies in the north of Portugal. A theoretical frame is set to support the use and relevance of this kind of tools as a means to generate a set of guide lines on how companies may use design as a strategic tool. Several tools from different countries are evaluated, and a generic model is set to become the base of a support tool development for future researches. This model focuses on the results and on an inter company experience sharing. In the final part of this article, some aspects of the studied models are discussed, namely the results relevance and diffusion for other companies. Issues are raised on ongoing investigations.

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