ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the studies which the book project has finally featured and how the analysis and thesis forming part of the book have been arranged. It describes and shows how the thorough study of the subject – High Speed Product Development Processes and Models Based on Networks (NB HS PD) – together with the explorative analysis of the product development system of generic industrial case businesses including related models and processes have come up. The chapter aims to describe and analyse the current context in 2000–2003 of network based high speed product development and make an identification and introduction of the NB HS PD problem – what is the problem?, an identification and introduction of why NB HS PD is a problem? It describes when NB HS PD is a problem and gives an introduction to the theoretical model apparatus for high speed product development processes and models.
