October 10, 2017
Biomimicry: Streamlining the Front End of Innovation for Environmentally Sustainable Products. Biomimicry, defined as innovation through the emulation of biological forms, processes, patterns, and...
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New Product Development
October 10, 2017
Lean Start-Up is a new process for product development that replaces the stage gate process for developing products when there is high uncertainty in the market and/or technology – characteristics...
October 04, 2017
Supplier Decision Matrix Tool Template Sustainability Checklist: New Products in NPD
May 01, 2004
Translation of strategy into new product initiatives is the focus of this second of three articles reporting the results of the most recent American Productivity and Quality Center study on...
July 01, 2017
“Welcome to the Top Secret R&D lab of Big House Inc. We are working on some of the most confidential and innovative products in the world here. All of you have signed a strict NDA so you cannot...
July 01, 2017
Design for service is critical to making the focus on service work at Rolls-Royce. This article describes the company’s Advanced Services Transformation Roadmap, which ensures that services are...
March 01, 2004
As many industrial organizations have learned to apply roadmapping successfully, they have also learned that it is “roadmapping†rather than “the roadmap†that generates value. This two-part special...
January 01, 2004
Business and economic realities have driven GE's R&D for 111 years. Its funding model has been an important driver of these realities, most recently with research focused on helping businesses to...
January 01, 2004
This first of three articles reports the results of the most recent American Productivity and Quality Center study on performance and best practices in new product development. Performance results...
January 01, 2004
Six Sigma, a business process developed at Motorola in the early 1980s, dramatically improves customer satisfaction from products and services by reducing defects during manufacture. Design for Six...
September 01, 2005
Sustainable development has three broad goals: environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic prosperity, for both the organization and its stakeholders. In a successful sustainability...
May 10, 2017
The Internet, machine learning, advances in manufacturing, and biotechnology have shifted substantial portions of our research and development power to startups and labs that do not fit neatly within...
May 10, 2017
IRI Research Project This project is seeking to identify the specific best practices that IRI member companies use to identify whitespace opportunities and actions successful organizations take to...
May 10, 2017
IRI Research Project Lean Start-Up is a new process for product development that can enhance the stage gate process and is more suitable for developing products when there is high uncertainty in the...
May 09, 2017
Breakout Most companies don’t properly understand their target customers in product development – and the results can be catastrophic. Companies who utilize customer insights adapt product...
May 05, 2017
The experience of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company shows how applying Lean principles to R&D can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of new product development. Join author Norbert...