Download or read book Selection of Projects for New Product Development in Competitive Markets written by Manohar U. Kalwani and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Product Development For Dummies written by Robin Karol and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global consumer product market is exploding. In 2006 alone, 150,000 new products were brought to market. Now for the bad news: of those, fewer than 5% were hits, and fewer than 15% will even exist five years from now. Written for small business owners and entrepreneurs looking for an inside track on new product development, New Product Development for Dummies offers you a unique opportunity to learn from two consummate insiders the secrets of successfully developing, marketing and making a bundle from a new product or service. You learn proven techniques for sizing up market potential and divining customer needs. You get tested-in-the-trenches strategies for launching a new product or service. And you get a frank, in-depth appraisal of the most challenging issues facing new product developers today, including the need to collaborate with global partners, optimizing technology development for a 21st century marketplace, getting start-up capital in an increasingly competitive environment, and much more. Key topics covered include: Developing a winning NPD strategy Generating bold new ideas for products and services Understanding what your customers really want Keeping projects on track, on budget, and on-time Building effective cross-functional teams Planning and executing a blockbuster launch Collaborating with global partners Maximizing your chances for success No matter what size or type of business you’re in, this book provides you with an unbeatable competitive advantage in the booming global marketplace for new products and services.

Download or read book School Linked Human Services written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of available information, studies, and evaluations to determine the kinds of multiservice, school-linked approaches focused on school-age population and their families; the relative strengths and weaknesses of these approaches; and the circumstances under which each appears most appropriate. Identifies the problems and barriers encountered when using the school as a hub for delivering services, and much more. Charts and tables.

Download or read book Managing New Product Development Projects in a Competitive Market written by Issariya Sirichakwal and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New product development projects play a major role in the modern economy, especially for firms that compete in the most innovative industries. The speed-to-market for new products in these industries is often regarded as a key source of competitive advantage since the first entry has the opportunity to build barriers to deter new entries and/or enjoy monopoly status for a period of time. Shortening the development time to market, however, typically requires higher development costs that may offset, or even outweigh, any anticipated first-mover advantages. The objective of this dissertation is to study the implications of speed-to-market in the context of project management when the project return depends in large part on the time of product introduction to the market relative to that of the competitor. Specifically, we analyze the decision process of a risk neutral firm that wants to maximize the expected profit of a new product development project in a market with potential rivals and a product that can only be marginally differentiated. In the model, expected profit is determined by the timing of the product's entry into the market as well as the firm's management of allocated resources. We formulate a continuous time-cost trade-off project management model under competition. Our model assumes that the market entry time of the competitor is a random variable following a general distribution. We consider both deterministic and stochastic activity durations, both static and dynamic project scheduling policies, and consider two types of payment schemes that reflect most new product markets. In the model for deterministic activity durations, we present analytical results for the static resource allocation policy which offer various managerial insights that help managers better understand the trade-offs and impact of competition on project management strategy. When resource allocation decisions can be made dynamically we develop a heuristic procedure that facilitates managers decision making process to increase or decrease allocated resources to some tasks, or to terminate the project altogether, at various states of the development project. For projects with stochastic activity durations, we develop heuristic scheduling/compression strategies to maximize the expected profit while guaranteeing feasibility of the scheduling solution.

Download or read book Selecting Product Development Projects written by Abdul Ali and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Research on New Product Development written by Peter N. Golder and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New products are the major driver of revenue growth in today's dynamic business environment. In this Handbook, the world's foremost experts on new product development bring together the latest thinking on this vitally important topic. These thought-leading authors organize knowledge into useful and insightful frameworks covering all aspects of new product development: companies, collaborators, customers, context, markets, and performance. Managers will benefit from the handbook by expanding their knowledge of new product development and researchers will learn about opportunities to continue expanding on this body of knowledge.

Download or read book Lean Rapid and Profitable New Product Development written by Robert G. Cooper and published by Product Development Institute. This book was released on 2005 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Setting the PACE in Product Development written by Michael E. McGrath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the PACE in Product Development describes how to effectively manage the key ingredients of successful product development: time, quality, talent and resources. This revised edition of Product Development provides essential insight as to how to efficiently organize people, resources and processes to dramatically improve financial results, strategic positions, internal morale and customer satisfaction. The PACE techniques integrate vital company-wide functions, engaging the entire company and focusing its collective energy on strategically and financially important goals.

Download or read book The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development written by Kenneth B. Kahn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Product Development is one of the most important challenges facing organizations today. The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) Handbook of New Product Development 3rd Edition provides an exceptional review of cutting edge topics for both new and experienced product development leaders. It offers a comprehensive and updated guide to the practices, processes and tools critical to achieving and sustaining new product/service development success in today’s world, delivering valuable information about the fundamentals as well as emerging practices such as venturing, virtual product development and the use of social media in NPD. As the premier global advocate for professionals and organizations working in the fields of new product/service development, PDMA has assembled in the Handbook unique content on the critical aspects of product development success including its 2012 Best Practices Research, Lessons Learned from its Outstanding Corporate Innovator Award Winners and keys to success from organizations with proven innovation track records. The 3rd Edition is an essential reference for anyone with responsibility for product development activities, from novices looking for fundamentals to experts seeking insights on emerging concepts, and is relevant for all functions and all product/service industries.

Download or read book New Product Development written by Sameer Kumar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenge of managing a business enterprise today is to ensure that it can remain efficient and competitive in a dynamic marketplace characterized by high competition, unstable demands, heterogeneous market segments, and short product life cycles. Increasing the pace of new product introduction enables dealing with shorter product lives. To sustain competitiveness, a firm has to be innovative as well as quick to respond to the changing customer needs in order to provide better and faster products to market than competitors. New product development (NPD) is considered as a process of learning. Successful NPD projects typically rely on knowledge and experience of multi-function teams. In addition to corporate strategy and organization learning, the external factors such as, market and competitive conditions also play a big role in driving business strategies. The results from the empirical research study reported shows that companies implementing innovation strategy are more competitive in the long run while those that follow customer-responsive strategy are more likely to have higher return on investment within a shorter time. In order to achieve both sustainable competencies and also meet customer needs in the changing market environment today, a company should adapt to the benefits of both strategies.

Download or read book Navigating Project Selection and Execution for Competitive Advantage written by John E. Triantis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many organizations, the way in which processes and projects are selected and executed is a fundamental factor in how well they can prosper in today’s marketplace. By improving efficiency, driving productivity and reducing costs, organizations can increase throughput, improve service and bring new products to market faster. The aim of this book is to show how to assess chances of project success at the idea stage in order to direct resources to promising projects and conserve resources. In doing that, it presents effective project execution processes, practices, and experiences that help to select the right projects and do them right. This is a mindset changing book from project speed and cost cutting to discipline, execution excellence, and competitive advantage. It is about effective business development using a practical approach to select the right projects and do them successfully. It describes how to evaluate and predict the likelihood of project success at the idea stage before resources are expended to develop projects. Each chapter describes how to evaluate planned project development and implementation, rate its performance, and identify gaps to be filled to achieve project execution excellence. The book is designed to guide the assessment of each project stage to uncover areas in need of improvement with focus on prediction of project success. Hence, each chapter stands on its own and assesses key elements of project stages to determine how well they are executed. The journey of project execution described is based on predicting project success at the idea stage and begins with understanding differences in large project requirements and their effects on the way they should be done. The evaluation of the idea’s origin and reasons for pursuing a project is done with help from an experienced facilitator/moderator. The reason for it is that this individual is engaged to assess likelihood of success from an external, independent, critical, and objective perspective before the project begins.

Download or read book New Products The Key Factors in Success written by Robert G. Cooper and published by Marketing Classics Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Managing New Product and Process Development written by Kim B. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that a company's capability to conceive and design quality prototypes and bring a variety of products to market more quickly than its competitors is increasingly the focal point of competition. The authors present principles for developing speed and efficiency.

Download or read book The PDMA ToolBook 1 for New Product Development written by Paul Belliveau and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-04-18 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical cross-functional coverage of the entire product development process from idea generation through delivery of the final assembled product. Includes sections on benchmarking and changing your new product development process and managing your product portfolio.

Download or read book Developing Products in Half the Time written by Preston G. Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance praise for Developing Products in Half the Time Second Edition New Rules, New Tools Preston G. Smith * Donald G. Reinertsen "This is an exceptional book! Get a new highlighter before you start. There are so many 'ah ha's' in each chapter you will never make it through with an old one." Don LaCombe, Ford Motor Company, Product Development Process Leadership "An excellent book with a strong treatment of the cycle-time consequences of overloading your development capacity. It provides powerful and practical concepts for dealing with this issue." Andrew Aquart, Director Product Development, Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson Company "This is practical, useful stuff for people competing in highly competitive fast moving business." Dr. Paul Borrill, Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems "3M has absorbed many of the tools from the original edition, and this new one will be even more useful. The topic of incremental innovation is crucial to us, and I really appreciate its balanced treatment." Ronald H. Kubinski, Manager New Product Commercialization Services, 3M Company "As the authors correctly point out, the Fuzzy Front End is the least expensive place to reduce cycle time. This book is one of the only sources of concepts, methods, and metrics for compressing this critical portion of the development process." David M. Lewis, Product Manager, Eastman Kodak Co. "Using these tools we've more than cut our time to market in half. The new edition of this classic crystallizes the synergy of the fast-to-market techniques, and the icons in the margins highlight the opportunities and pitfalls." Mike Brennan , Vice President of Product Development, Black & Decker

Download or read book Product Innovation Management written by Stefano Biazzo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new insights into the complex set of activities and decisions of product innovation management. It provides concepts, methods, and tools that can help accelerate the introduction of successful products to the market in an increasingly competitive and changing business landscape. It also offers examples and case studies, and it is the result of more than 20 years of study, research, and consulting carried out by the two authors in the field of innovation management. The book discusses the demanding challenges of product innovation and offers practitioners guidance on how to respond to these challenges. It presents a three-level framework (the “innovation pyramid”), which reflects the core components of a firm’s innovation capability: first, intelligence - absorbing information and knowledge from the outside world by looking beyond the familiar territories of the current market, technology, and customers; second, discovery - exploring opportunities for innovation through creative ideation and technology experimentation; and third, development - transforming opportunities into profitable new products and services.

Download or read book Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge written by Allan Anderson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully-updated Third Edition of the leading study resource for PDMA's New Product Development Professional certification exam The newly revised and updated Third Edition of PDMA Body of Knowledge (BoK) provides a singular reference for anyone currently involved in, or planning a career in product management and product innovation. It describes a proven framework for product innovation which is applicable to a wide cross-section of product and service industries at various levels of an organization. It is also the basis for candidates studying for PDMA's New Product Development Professional (NPDP) certification examination. The guide is divided into seven chapters, consistent with the seven product innovation topics used as a basis for the NPDP examination: management, strategy, portfolio, process, design and development, market research, and culture & teams. PDMA Body of Knowledge includes detailed coverage of topics including: The key factors that lead to successful product innovation management. The importance of strategy to product innovation success, hierarchy of strategies, and establishing the organization's direction via vision, mission, values, and more. The role of portfolio management in selection of the right product innovation projects for an organization. Description of various product innovation processes and the pros and cons of each. The application of tools and techniques at various stages of the design and development process. The application of market research throughout product innovation. The importance of the right culture and team development. The material provided can be applied to the full range of product development projects included in most company portfolios, such as new products or services, line extensions, cost reductions, and product or service improvements. This newly revised and updated Third Edition includes new case studies, examples, and chapter exercises, along with sample NPDP examination questions. PDMA Body of Knowledge is an essential study resource for those studying for PDMA's NPDP exam. The text is also highly valuable to product management professionals, consultants, instructors, and students seeking to increase their knowledge base