Comparison between Japanese Approach to Product Development and UK Approach

Introduction

Various organizations throughout the world managed to create strategic poses and the implement standards. These procedures are very popular mostly on the manufacturing industry. Many researchers and past information upholds the information that the customer satisfaction is the key of the organization to have an advantage in the market and against the competitors. To gain this kind of advantage, the organization must learn on how to move according to what are the perception of the customers as well as their expectations of the organization’s performance. One effective solution that the organizational leaders are trying to convey is the creation of the product that surpasses all of the requirements of the consumers.

Product Development

Based on the extensive researches, the field of the product development is another form of innovation wherein the organization attempts to provide all the ideal qualities of the product. The product development is an ongoing process because all the information that resulted in the creation of the newly developed product came from the customers’ perception. Since all the tastes and preferences of the customers usually changes, it is a great challenge for the organization to provide quality solution on their aim for product development. Various professionals, research institutions, business leaders, and other industrial workers attempted to promote a product that can have the advantage against their competitors.

Usually, the product development starts in the planning, then afterwards, providing innovative methods that understands the customer’s tastes and preferences. All of the information flows in the product development possesses the right relationship regarding the standards, uses of the communication, technologies, and the collaboration of the other ingredients that can result to a sound product development. The knowledge in managing the product design and development processes can be also based on the application of the models, system, structure of the product, and other integration of methodologies. The recognized formula for the product development clearly has an approach on the education and training of the people as a tool in the vehicle of product development. The most common feature that an organization can say that the product is processed into series of development is to validate it according to its function or purpose in the market, optimization, regarding the quality, reliability, durability, and the be suitable in the regulatory requirements of the customers (Omara, 2008).

Comparison between Japan and UK Manufacturers in Product Development

Firstly, Japan’s manufacturing industry can be the largest industry that contributes in the Japanese economy. It is admired by the various researchers that the Japanese companies enable to target the aspects of corporate and research strengths. Through the use of the various technologies, which half maybe came from their land, the Japanese companies laid broader approach regarding the idea of product development.

In general, Japanese approach to the product development has a large numbers of changes. For example, the automobile industry in Japan had radical steps such as the application of the concept of the fuel cells. The organization has an aim to provide the quality solution by answering two of the biggest issues in the era of modernization – the environmental destruction and the problem in the oil, gas, and other petroleum products. From this example the organization can have the full opportunity to be the first company that enables to incorporate the use of technology. But the drawback is the cost of the product that might be too expensive for the customers. Japan has strength to set the flow of trend in the market and the high level of technology delivers the variety of strategies that can, however, minimize the appearance of the present problems (Greaves & Hart, 2004).

On the other hand, the UK has a responsibility in meeting their own set of standards based on the participating companies, research, and government organizations and then, latter develop their product. Again, the automobile manufacturing is the example that can be use. The approach of the UK in the product development was prioritized on various concerns such as addressing the organizations participation in terms of security. If the manufacturers followed the innovation of fuel cell, the assurance of the UK’s framework should be also developed for the proper deployment. Such policies like the use of technologies, standards, codes, and infrastructures are the UK’s gateway toward the evolution (Haake, Moore, & Oliver, 2000.

Conclusion

If the Japanese manufacturers have strength in setting the trends in the market, the UK manufacturing industry has strength by following the governmental policies. All their strengths have equal drawbacks and their discovered strengths are there so called “key” to be effective in the market.

Works Cited:

Greaves, C., & Hart, D., 2004. Fuel Cells – the Japanese Experience, Global Watch Mission Report [Online] Available at: http://www.synnogy.co.uk/publicreports/japan.pdf [Accessed 16 March2010].

Haake, S., Moore, C., & Oliver, N., 2000. Recipes for Success – Product Development Benchmarks in the UK and German Food Industries [Online] Available at: http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/research/working_papers/2000/wp0027.pdf [Accessed 16 March 2010].

Omara, S., 2008 Product development, International Journal of Product Development [Online] Available at: https://www.inderscience.com/www/IJPD_leaflet.pdf [Accessed 16 March 2010]