In response to significant changes within the Aerospace industry during recent years, a new approach is proposed for developing complex products in a globally distributed environment. Current approaches favour collocating project teams, but collocation is often not practical, nor economically justifiable. The Macro Concept is a process whereby products can be developed by globally distributed task teams, managed by a Core team. In the development of this concept particular attention is paid to the human factors; product decomposition and the infrastructure that supports the product introduction process in a globalised industry.
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