Having worked for nearly two decades for large multinationals on new product development, and taught Entrepreneurship & Innovation and New Product & Services Development in exec ed and business school ...

Product development is facing a fundamental challenge. Unfortunately, at the very moment when companies need to make better products more efficiently, previous performance innovations in product ...

The small business environment today is very dynamic and competitive, and new product development is a crucial process if you want to survive. For small enterprises to withstand competition from ...

TUKWILA, WASH. – Speed is a key component of the new product development process today. The days of ideation and innovation taking place over a long period of time are gone. The process is now ...

Product development, no matter the industry, is both an art and a science. Bringing a concept to life requires intensive research, ingenuity, risk-taking, iteration, testing, and a little magic. More ...

While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Kevin Bailey Artificial ...

The rules of traditional product development are rapidly changing. Companies seeking growth can no longer afford to ignore the millions of customers demanding high quality and performance at ultra-low ...

People not involved on the inside of product development tend to have relatively little insight into the subtle ins-and-outs of what goes into the development process. Often, people think things are ...

Product development programs meet two types of measurable goals – goals that relate to the product itself and goals that integrate product development with broader business goals. Product-related ...

Many aspects of Apple’s product development process have long been shrouded in mystery. The process is discussed in a new book Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired–and Secretive–Company Really ...

The product development process can be improved with single-physics simulation, multiphysics simulation and simulation apps. This article looks at three real-world examples that show how integrating ...