Abstract
Design management methods have recently become crucial not only for corporations but also for Vocational Aid Centers(VACs)for attractive product development. Because of the recent enactment of the Services and Support for Persons with Disabilities Act, VACs now have a need to support their workers to be financially independent. In order to achieve this goal, VACs are expected to have managerial perspectives to develop competitive products in the market. We interviewed seven successful VACs to analyze the conditions for success as well as effective design management methods. In this report, we focus on three cases, which have developed attractive non-food products and have been making stable profits. The outcome of our analysis led us to add five more factors for success to the five written in the previous research [9] . They include: “Customer centered product development,” and “Solution for technical shortcomings through collaborations with corporations and universities”.
