Download or read book Developing Products on Internet Time written by Alan MacCormack and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncertain and dynamic environments present fundamental challenges to managers of the new product development process. Between successive product generations, significant evolutions can occur in both the customer needs a product must address and the technologies it employs to satisfy these needs. Furthermore, even within a single development project, firms must respond to new information or risk developing a product that is obsolete the day it is launched. This paper examines the characteristics of an effective development process in one such environment -- the internet software industry. Using data on 29 completed development projects we show that in this industry, a more flexible approach to development is associated with better performing products. This approach is characterized by the ability to generate and respond to new information for a longer proportion of a development cycle. It is underpinned by greater investments in architectural design, earlier feedback on product performance from the market, and the use of a development team with extensive product-based experience. Our results further suggest that investments in architectural design must play a dual role in a flexible process; first through the selection of an architecture which maximizes product performance, and second, through the adoption of an architecture which facilitates process flexibility. We provide examples from our field work to support this view.
Download or read book Developing Products on Internet Time written by Stefan Thomke and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing Products on Internet Time written by Marco Iansiti and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper begins by proposing a new model for product development in turbulent environments. We then describe a series of case studies from four organizations competing in the market for software based products and services; Microsoft, Netscape, Yahoo and NetDynamics. In each of the projects described, the organizations faced extreme levels of uncertainty in developing a technically complex product. We end by highlighting the critical patterns between these projects, and use these to define the emerging skill set underlying effective product development in turbulent environments.
Download or read book Developing Products on Internet Time written by Marco Iansiti and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper begins by proposing a new model for product development in turbulent environments. We then describe a series of case studies from four organizations competing in the market for software based products and services; Microsoft, Netscape, Yahoo and NetDynamics. In each of the projects described, the organizations faced extreme levels of uncertainty in developing a technically complex product. We end by highlighting the critical patterns between these projects, and use these to define the emerging skill set underlying effective product development in turbulent environments.
Download or read book Prototype to Product written by Alan Cohen and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product development is the magic that turns circuitry, software, and materials into a product, but moving efficiently from concept to manufactured product is a complex process with many potential pitfalls. This practical guide pulls back the curtain to reveal what happens—or should happen—when you take a product from prototype to production. For makers looking to go pro or product development team members keen to understand the process, author Alan Cohen tracks the development of an intelligent electronic device to explain the strategies and tactics necessary to transform an abstract idea into a successful product that people want to use. Learn 11 deadly sins that kill product development projects Get an overview of how electronic products are manufactured Determine whether your idea has a good chance of being profitable Narrow down the product’s functionality and associated costs Generate requirements that describe the final product’s details Select your processor, operating system, and power sources Learn how to comply with safety regulations and standards Dive into development—from rapid prototyping to manufacturing Alan Cohen, a veteran systems and software engineering manager and lifelong technophile, specializes in leading the development of medical devices and other high-reliability products. His passion is to work with engineers and other stakeholders to forge innovative technologies into successful products.
Download or read book Marketer s Toolkit written by and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective marketing can mean the difference between runaway successes and costly flops. Covering everything from customer programs to ad campaigns to sales promotions, this is every marketer’s hands-on guide to turning opportunities into profits. The Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business. Whether you are a new manager seeking to expand your skills or a seasoned professional looking to broaden your knowledge base, these solution-oriented books put reliable answers at your fingertips.
Download or read book Network Based High Speed Product Development written by Peter Lindgren and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first decade of the 21st century product development in networks was predicted to be of ever-increasing importance to businesses of all sizes because of changes in markets, in technology, in networks, and in the competences of Businesses. The growth in new products’ share of businesses’ total turnover and earnings were increasing at an unprecedented speed. The entrepreneurial innovations and technological improvements had resulted in the increasingly fast development of new products and services. Businesses and industries in different countries became increasingly more linked and interdependent in networks with respect to materials, business operations and particularly product development to match the wants and needs of the global market environment to high speed product development. Businesses were therefore encountering increasingly dynamic market fragmentation, shrinking time in market, increasing product variety, demands of production to customer specifications, reduced product lifetimes, and globalization of production.Networks were vital because the competition is not business against business, but network against network. Networks are vital because an increasing part of product development was carried out in all types of networks containing physical, ICT, dynamic, and virtual networks. Speed and pressure on time in product development seemed to continue to increase because customer demands for new products seemed to continue to increase. However, a Business seldom possessed all needed competences, and managers saw product development based on networks as an important solution to meet the strong competition of the future global markets and the strong demand for innovation and innovativeness. The evolution of market demands and focus (required) on competencies of businesses could be characterized as a development from a focus on efficiency, to a focus on quality and flexibility, to a focus on speed and innovativeness.This was why it was interesting and important to research and discuss product development and especially to understand high speed product development of individualized products in fragile market segments. Consequently, findings and learning on aspects like enablers, management tools, technological tools, product development models, product development processes and network tools to speed new product development are presented in this book.
Download or read book The Internet Encyclopedia Volume 3 P Z written by Hossein Bidgoli and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 979 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet Encyclopedia in a 3-volume reference work on the internet as a business tool, IT platform, and communications and commerce medium.
Download or read book Funding a Revolution written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past 50 years have witnessed a revolution in computing and related communications technologies. The contributions of industry and university researchers to this revolution are manifest; less widely recognized is the major role the federal government played in launching the computing revolution and sustaining its momentum. Funding a Revolution examines the history of computing since World War II to elucidate the federal government's role in funding computing research, supporting the education of computer scientists and engineers, and equipping university research labs. It reviews the economic rationale for government support of research, characterizes federal support for computing research, and summarizes key historical advances in which government-sponsored research played an important role. Funding a Revolution contains a series of case studies in relational databases, the Internet, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality that demonstrate the complex interactions among government, universities, and industry that have driven the field. It offers a series of lessons that identify factors contributing to the success of the nation's computing enterprise and the government's role within it.
Download or read book Developing Products in Half the Time written by Preston G. Smith and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refreshingly practical answers to the question of how to get good products out faster are revealed in this book. With a holistic treatment of the development cycle, the authors--seasoned specialists in rapid product development--show what works, what doesn't, and why. Numerous examples are dissected to illustrate techniques that can increase development. 55 line drawings.
Download or read book Advances in Integrated Design and Production written by Abdelmjid Saka and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports on innovative concepts and practical solutions at the intersection between engineering design, engineering production and industrial management. It covers cutting-edge design, modeling and control of dynamic and multiphysics systems, knowledge management systems in industry 4.0, cyber-physical production systems, additive and sustainable manufacturing and many other related topics. The original, carefully selected, peer-reviewed chapters highlight collaborative works between different countries and between industry and universities, thus offering a timely snapshot for the research and industrial communities alike, as well as a bridge to facilitate communication and collaboration.
Download or read book Product Design and Development written by Karl T. Ulrich and published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a set of product development techniques aimed at bringing together the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the enterprise. The integrative methods facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
Download or read book Product Development written by Michael E. McGrath and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reducing time-to-market through product development is a major new management topic. This book introduces new concepts and techniques developed by the consulting firm PRTM and used by well-known client companies.
Download or read book What Is The Product Development Process What Are The Stages Of The Product Development Process The Benefits Of Companies Developing New Products And The Problems With Companies Not Developing New Products written by Dr. Harrison Sachs and published by The Epic Books Of Dr. Harrison Sachs. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay sheds light on what is the product development process, identifies the stages of the product development process, explicates the benefits of companies developing new products, and demystifies the problems with companies not developing new products. Succinctly stated, the product development process refers to all of the stages of the product development process which commences with the idea generation stage and ends with the commercialization stage. The product development process is inclusive of all the stages that the product goes through from its inception in the chasms of the human mind as a product concept to its release in retail stores. The product development process can vary from product to product. The product development process is a far less long-winded process for simple digital products and is a significantly more long-winded process for intricate tangible products. Even though not every product has to go through all the stages of the product development process to be released in the market, such as a song being released in the market for commercial purpose after it has been developed without it having received feedback from stakeholders before it was released in the market, most tangible products however go through a long-winded product development process. It is easier to release a digital product, such as a digital course, digital song, or mobile application, then it is to release a tangible product. This is because there are typically no upfront costs associated with releasing digital products on digital distribution platforms. If you do not own a digital distribution platform and if your digital products earn product unit sales on a digital distribution platform, then you will typically need to be pay the company who owns the digital distribution platform a percentage of the sales revenue that was generated on its digital distribution platform from your product unit sales. It is an extraordinarily lucrative business model to own a digital distribution platform since it allows the company who owns the digital distribution platform to reap a percentage of the sales revenue every time digital products generate product unit sales on its digital distribution platform. Since the company who owns the digital distribution platform did not develop the digital products that are available for sale on its digital distribution platform, it is able to have an exorbitant amount of product offerings available for sale on its digital distribution platform without even having to had expended research and development dollars to be able to do so. Since entrepreneurs develop the products that are available for sale on digital distribution platforms, entrepreneurs incur the product development costs to be able to bring their products to fruition. It can take a tremendous amount of time and capital to develop products. Companies who own a digital distribution platform have a vast variety of product offerings on their digital distribution platform and are able to not only reap a percentage of the sales revenue every time digital products that they did not develop sell on their digital distribution platform, but are also able to sell these products without having to had expended capital to develop these digital products. In stark contrast to retailers who own brick-and-mortar retail stores and who have enormous inventory carrying costs, companies who own a digital distribution platform do not have any inventory carrying costs since their product offerings are digital products. It is significantly easier to develop digital products and expeditiously commercialize them than it is to develop tangible products and release them in the market at retail brick-and-mortar retail stores. Copies of digital products can easily be distributed to customers via a digital distribution platform and are summarily accessible on their devices after the customers order them. On the other hand, copies of tangible products need to be manufactured and subsequently shipped out to customers so that orders for tangible products can be fulfilled. It is time-consuming for products to go through the ample stages of the product development process. The product development process commences with ideation with the product being relegated to the form of a product concept in the bowels of the human mind. The product development process ends with a product launch in which the product is released in the market. The product development process sheds light on how a product is developed.
Download or read book Project Based Knowledge in Organizing Open Innovation written by Sara Bonesso and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enriching understanding of the current theoretical debate on project-based learning and R&D sourcing, ‘Project-based Knowledge in Organizing Open Innovation’ draws on innovation literature and knowledge-based perspectives to solve open problems in the relationship between knowledge development at project level and how firms organize product innovation combining in-house R&D activities with inbound open innovation. Through field research in different industrial settings (pharmaceutical, automotive and machine tools) and with complementary methodological approaches, this book provides empirical evidence on how project knowledge features affect sourcing decisions at firm level. Due to the emerging interest in the management literature on project-based organizations and on the relevance of project forms of organizing in a knowledge-based economy, this volume will appeal to scholars and students in business and management, in particular those in innovation management, organization theory and strategic management. Addressing the still open issue of how the firm level should be complemented by studies at the project level of analysis, this book provides theoretical and empirical arguments on the advantages of a more fine-grained level of analysis to understand how firms organize their innovation processes across boundaries.
Download or read book Frameworks Methodologies and Tools for Developing Rich Internet Applications written by Alor-Hernández, Giner and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological advances in the field of IT lead to the creation of new programs intended to merge the advantages of desktop-based programs with the advantages of Web-based programs in order to increase user accessibility and provide effective computer performance. Frameworks, Methodologies, and Tools for Developing Rich Internet Applications presents current research and analysis on the use of JavaScript and software development to establish new programs intended for the Web. With an in-depth look at computer and Web programming, this publication emphasizes the benefits and dynamic qualities of these emerging technologies. This book is an essential reference source for academicians, researchers, students, practitioners, and professionals interested in understanding and applying the advances in the combined fields of Web engineering and desktop programming in order to increase computer users visual experience and interactivity.
Download or read book Creating Breakthrough Products written by Jonathan M. Cagan and published by Ft Press. This book was released on 2001-10-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Breakthrough Products identifies key factors associated with successful innovation, and presents an insightful and comprehensive approach to building products and services that redefine markets -- or create new ones. Learn to identify Product Opportunity Gaps that can lead to enormous success; control and navigate the "Fuzzy Front End" of the product development process; and leverage contributions from diverse product teams -- while staying relentlessly focused on your customer's values and lifestyles.
