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Overall, although it is difficult to generalize on the relationship with suppliers, suppliers were seldom associated with the development phases, and their association was not always effective. In summary, our research may have caught the European companies studied at a particular juncture—in a state of awareness of the importance of time to market, but at a comparatively early stage of reflection of this awareness into specific management tools and processes—leading to the uneven approach to project management observed in the sample, where priority projects and autonomous projects show good performance on time-to-market dimensions, but others do not.
Concepts integrating corporate and technology strategy together, such as NEC's famed "C+C" map and the strategic architecture it drives, may allow a structured strategic context for technology policies and market decisions (Prahalad and Hamel, 1990). Even with an appropriate language, though, the process of communication itself may not be sufficiently intense to allow an effective dialogue between technologists and general managers. The time spent on integrating the two may be too short. The issue here is not to develop a "plan" that drives both technology investments and product and process efforts, but to cultivate throughout the organization a sense for the strategic relationship between technology and market investment, and to facilitate the creative combination of technologies and markets to develop new opportunities successfully.
Good subtask integration. Informal, real time. Strong. 41 7. Sorting system Emergent/ ex-post. Key customer provided it. Flexible, to an extent created by project leader. Informal linkages over time. ). Informal. 5. "CASE II" software product Significant. Difficult, made easier by UNIX. Not fitting well. Poor. Poor. Limited. 12. Radar system Significant. Tech discontinuity creates problems. Not fitting well. Average. Procedural. Limited. 10. Industrial robotics Very strong. Key customer provided it.