Aspectos da internalização em desenvolvimento de produtos terceirizados

Abstract

Seeking to meet the growing market need for new products and solutions, companies have sought alternatives on third parties to develop their products and reduce their time to market; in order to widen their product mix, adding knowledge and new technologies not present in their business. In the current economic models, outsourcing has become an onerous cost for the product being unfeasible to transfer it to the selling price. As a result, companies need to intern the manufacturing of some of these products, though they have to face a lack of knowledge and information related to their development. This work aims to evaluate the aspects of internalization in outsourced product developments. The object of this research was conducted under the format of multiple case studies through a questionnaire of closed questions. Fifteen (15) companies that outsource product development in the northeastern region of Rio Grande do Sul state. Only three of those fifteen interviewed companies have a consistent outsourced product development process, ensuring the maintenance of information regarding the process, and avoiding too many losses of product development working hours at the moment this development is internalized.