| Title: | Responsive Space: Concept Analysis, Critical Review, and Theoretical Framework |
| Author: | Saleh, Joseph H. ; Dubos, Gregory |
| Abstract: | Customers’ needs are dynamic and evolve in response to unfolding environmental uncertainties. The ability of a company or an industry to address these changing customers’ needs in a timely and cost-effective way is a measure of its responsiveness. In the space industry, a systemic discrepancy exists between the time constants associated with the change of customers’ needs, and the response time of the industry in delivering on-orbit solutions to these needs. Increasingly, the penalties associated with such delays are becoming unacceptable, and space responsiveness is recognized as a strategic imperative in commercial competitive and military environments. In this paper, we provide a critical assessment of the literature on responsive space and introduce a new multi-disciplinary framework for thinking about and addressing issues of space responsiveness. Our framework advocates three levels of responsiveness: a global industry-wide responsiveness, a local stakeholder responsiveness, and an interactive or inter-stakeholder responsiveness. We introduce and motivate the use of “responsiveness maps” for multiple stakeholders. We then identify “levers of responsiveness,” technical spacecraft- and launch-centric, as well as “soft” levers (e.g., acquisition policies) for improving the responsiveness of the space industry. Finally, we propose a series of research questions to aggressively tackle problems associated with space responsiveness. |
| Description: | AIAA SPACE 2007 Conference & Exposition 18-20 September 2007, Long Beach, California. |
| Type: | Paper |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/26288 |
| Date: | 2007-09 |
| Contributor: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Relation: | SSDL ; AIAA-2007-6015 |
| Publisher: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Subject: |
Levers of responsiveness
On-orbit Responsiveness maps |
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