African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4199

Full Length Research Paper

Redesigning the A B.com 1 test suite through value engineering: A new approach for using economic efficiency methods

Ion Ioniţă1, Florin Aurelian Popescu1, Jean Vasile Andrei2* and Alexandru Voicu1
  1Department of Economic Efficiency, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Piata, Romana, No. 6, Sect.1, Bucharest, Romania. 2Economics and Business Administration Department, Petroleum and Gas University of Ploiesti, Bucharest Avenue, No. 39, 100680, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania.
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  •  Accepted: 11 April 2011
  •  Published: 18 May 2011

Abstract

 

Value engineering represents a good and proper method used by modern companies not only for improving the products quality, but also for increasing the economic efficiency of the production methods or applied technologies for old existent products. This method can successfully be applied also for increasing the capacities of new products imposed by a highly competitive business environment in the general context of designing or redesigning the concepts designed. The main objective of this paper is applying the reengineering process in order to improve thevalue engineering’s application in one of large IT application in practice, respective redesigning the B.com 1 test suite.

 

Key words: Value engineering, significance level, labor cost, redesigning methods.