The Challenge of Innovation in Highly Complex Projects: What Can We Learn from Boeing’s Dreamliner Experience?

Research Methods for Engineers
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Institutional affiliation.

Title: The Challenge of Innovation in Highly Complex Projects: What Can We Learn from
Boeing’s Dreamliner Experience?
Abstract
Understanding the relationship between the complexity and innovation can be sometimes very
difficult. Innovation has faced differ challenges which even managers who are in this field may
not be able to handle at some point. This challenges have received very limited attention and
very lithe theory development in terms of research have been applied. The article in review
presents an analysis of the difficulties experienced during development of the project of a highly
innovating of the Dreamliner aircraft. During the innovation the project suffered an extensive
complex problem such as delays, and cost of the production (Ersavas & Pekol, 2017). This paper
presents an analysis of the project complexities and how such complexities were overcome. The
project uses several frameworks to produce and draw a roadmap that is more integrative in the
view of the challenges that is possible and provide an alternative measures to address the
challenges faced during this face and period. The research also offer an insight for the project
complexities and future recommendation in case the problem is faced again.
Methodology
Research method
In this part, the researcher presents the method that will be used to collect data. The specific area
to cover included the study design, the target population to be involved in the study and the
sampling design to be employed in the study.

Information regarding the data collection methods employed by the research, procedures of
conducting the research as well as methods used to analyses the data collected based on the
hypothesis is presented. The validity and reliability tests are also covered, together with a
mention of the ethical consideration employed by the researcher (Lin, 2016). The research design
explains how the study will be conducted and more so paying attention to detailed issue that
were basically added from the begging of the study such problem faced by Boeing. The main
hypothesis is the problem faced by wen handling big projects.
In this regard, the study design used in this research was able to help anticipate the kind of
appropriate research decisions which was considered as maximum validity of the overall results.
For this research mixed design methods was used because it combines both the aspect of
quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative methods has always proven useful in most
of the research because it handles the numerical part of the research. On the other and, qualitative
methods is important for the research because it presents and adopts the research subject point of
view. Most researcher have noted that quantitative methods alone are not enough to assess the
variable change in the research (Lindlof, & Taylor,2017). Due to this, using both method shades
light on which variable responsible for what change. This was also responsible for explaining the
results of the research and finding that is to be achieved. Apart from quantitative methods, the
data collection method to be used in the research is questioneeir and sampling methods. The
data will be collected from different sources. The first source will be secondary source which
include information about the company. The second source is the primary source which include
interviewing the current manager and the former employee of the company.
Literature review