Engineering change management plays a vital role in product development and innovation processes. This paper explores potential differences between average and critical changes. Data was elicited through an industry survey conducted with more than 90 engineering firms in Denmark. Results cover occurrence, objectives, initiators, causes, and effects of ECs on product, process, people, and cost. Where appropriate, we differentiate between firms with a higher and lower amount of critical changes. Results show, for example, that critical changes have a high affiliation to change propagation.     «

Engineering change management plays a vital role in product development and innovation processes. This paper explores potential differences between average and critical changes. Data was elicited through an industry survey conducted with more than 90 engineering firms in Denmark. Results cover occurrence, objectives, initiators, causes, and effects of ECs on product, process, people, and cost. Where appropriate, we differentiate between firms with a higher and lower amount of critical changes. R...     »