Assignment in Lieu of one Pre-read Quiz

Hi All,

This following Write-up based assignment is *only* for those folks who have missed one pre-read quiz or may have done badly in any one quiz.

Problem background:

You are a consultant and your client, a multinational manufacturing behemoth, wants to know trends and impact of disruption in manufacturing technologies in the next decade with particular emphasis on 'additive manufacturing' (a.k.a. 3 dimensional printing) technologies.

Your D.P. is to find "Which industries and product categories will shift earliest to (or be most affected by) 3D printing tech and around what time line?".

An alternative D.P. says, "What are the most likely consumer uses of 3D printing and around what time line?"

Choose any one of the two D.P.s, build corresponding R.O.s and write a 3 (or fewer) page report (Times New Roman 12 font, 1.5 line spacing, standard margins) outlining your principal findings in solving that R.O. through secondary research alone.

Hint:

Google for 'economist.com 3D printing' (without the inverted commas). Scan through the links that appear on the first page. I have posted a few examples below.

How 3D printers work (7 Sept 2013)

3D printing Out of the box (6 Aug 2013)

3D printing scales up (7 Sept 2013)

Inventing HP in 3D (28 Nov 2013)

Pls ensure you have:

• Written your name and PGID on the document
• Clearly spelt out which D.P. you have chosen
• Clearly spelt our your R.O.(s)
• Clearly included citations of sources (URLs etc) either as footnotes or as a separate References section outside the page limit.

The deadline is before the start of the next class. Pls submit electronically to a dropbox that Ankit will make on LMS for this purpose.

Any queries etc., contact me.

Thanks.

Sudhir