November 01, 2008
Advancing from a lab prototype to a commercial product or service offering can be a lengthy and risky process. IBM’s First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) program is an attempt to take a short cut by bringing IBM...
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New Product Development
Friday October 07, 2016 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Learn how biomimicry can be used as a powerful design tool to support sustainability-driven product development in the front end of innovation.
July 01, 2008
Change midstream in a product development project often means cost and budget overruns, schedule delays and product defects. Understandably, managers dislike change and have installed systems, such...
July 01, 2008
Competitor analysis is critical to strategy formulation and implementation. Firms are able to develop and deploy better strategies if their competitors’ responses can be analyzed or even predicted...
April 01, 2008
The so-called fuzzy front end would seem to be the stage of innovation least suited to the use of information systems and technology, tools usually applied to repeatable processes and those amenable...
April 01, 2016
Information technology (IT) is the cornerstone of the modern new product development (NPD) process. A new generation of communication and collaboration tools has propagated into nearly all aspects of...
September 01, 2009
A highly effective CREATIVE R&D culture combines C ustomer-focused, R isk-tolerant, E ntrepreneurial, A lignment with strategy, T echnology and scientific excellence, I nnovative, V irtual...
July 01, 2009
The ability of internal R&D to contribute to a company’s revenue growth is weakened by the presence of conditions termed R&D Value Eroders TM. These conditions erode the relevance of R&D...
March 30, 2016
Product innovation alone does not produce sufficient or sustained competitive advantage and growth. Increasingly, industry leaders—such as HP, Apple, Rolls-Royce, TomTom, and GE—are complementing...
March 01, 2009
The Stage-Gate(R) system introduced in the mid-1980s has helped many firms drive new products to market. But leaders have adjusted and modified the original model considerably and built in many new...
March 01, 2009
There are two approaches to reflecting a customer’s point of view in new product development (NPD). One is a customer-following approach that utilizes expressed consumer needs. The other is a...
January 01, 2009
New product development that depends on technology transfer among partners is difficult. For technology intensive firms, a range of factors—from the nature of competition to an enterprise’s market...
September 01, 2010
Embodied in the current concept of schedule as an independent variable, cycle time reduction is a subject of significant interest to the U.S. Department of Defense. In this review, research based on...
September 01, 2010
Industrial design is essential for the creation of products that satisfy user needs and aspirations and can be differentiated from the competition. However, most companies fail to reap the full...
January 01, 2009
New product development that depends on technology transfer among partners is difficult. For technology intensive firms, a range of factors—from the nature of competition to an enterprise’s market...
January 01, 2009
Successful firms have understood the superiority of customer orientation over a firm’s internal orientation ever since the promotion of the modern marketing concept by marketing gurus such as Jerome...