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Time to market is a critical factor in achieving a competitive advantage in today’s global market. Those organizations that are able to engineer their manufacturing systems rapidly and effectively will remain competitive. Those who cannot will disappear.
Electronic commerce is a key enabler for the growth, survivability, and sustainability of an enterprise. This usually takes the form of complex enterprise-wide applications that integrate employees performing their job functions with processes internal and external to the enterprise.
Given the increased pressure to reduce the time and costs of product development while at the same time improving the likelihood of success, the entire product development process must be examined. It has been recognized that the generation, capture, and use of requirements in that process are critical steps for the overall success of the development effort.
An online environment called the Problem Solving Learning Portal (PSLP) is a team-based approach that contains the learning modules and infrastructure used to (1) disseminate scenario specific information based on student-initiated requests, (2) structure the problem solving process in stages, (3) collect information on students’ statements about their approach to the problem, (4) collect work in multiple formats from each student team, and (5) provide feedback to teams after they submit their final solution.