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New Product Development For Dummies


New Product Development For Dummies


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von: Robin Karol, Beebe Nelson, Geoffrey Nicholson

15,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 30.07.2007
ISBN/EAN: 9780470175095
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 384

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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. <p>Written for small business owners and entrepreneurs looking for an inside track on new product development, <i>New Product Development for Dummies</i> 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 21<sup>st</sup> century marketplace, getting start-up capital in an increasingly competitive environment, and much more. Key topics covered include:</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Developing a winning NPD strategy</li> <li>Generating bold new ideas for products and services</li> <li>Understanding what your customers really want</li> <li>Keeping projects on track, on budget, and on-time</li> <li>Building effective cross-functional teams</li> <li>Planning and executing a blockbuster launch</li> <li>Collaborating with global partners</li> <li>Maximizing your chances for success</li> </ul> <p>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.</p>
<p>Foreword xxi</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p><b>Part I: The Basics of New Product Development 9</b></p> <p>Chapter 1: It Takes a Company 11</p> <p>Chapter 2: What Are You Developing, and Why? 23</p> <p>Chapter 3: Defining Your Product Strategy 37</p> <p><b>Part II: Charting the Ocean of Opportunity for New Products 59</b></p> <p>Chapter 4: What Do Your Customers Really Want? 61</p> <p>Chapter 5: Turning Your Company into an Idea Factory 89</p> <p>Chapter 6: Picking Winners and Losing Losers 115</p> <p>Chapter 7: Making the Most of Technology 127</p> <p>Chapter 8: Focusing Your NPD Efforts 147</p> <p><b>Part III: Navigating the River of Product Development 165</b></p> <p>Chapter 9: One Foot in Front of the Other: The Product Development Process 167</p> <p>Chapter 10: Organizing the NPD Troops 191</p> <p>Chapter 11: Managing Your Corporation’s NPD Resources 211</p> <p>Chapter 12: Using Reviews to Keep Projects on Track 233</p> <p>Chapter 13: Launching Products for Market Success 253</p> <p><b>Part IV: New Challenges in Product Development 271</b></p> <p>Chapter 14: Developing Products in the Digital Age 273</p> <p>Chapter 15: Product Development Goes Global 287</p> <p>Chapter 16: Choose Your Partner! Partners in Product Development 303</p> <p><b>Part V: The Part of Tens 317</b></p> <p>Chapter 17: Ten Ideas on Ways to Test Your New Products 319</p> <p>Chapter 18: Ten (Or More) Ways to Track Your Innovation Efforts 329</p> <p>Appendix: Business Case Outline 339</p> <p>Index 341</p>
<b>Robin Karol</b> is CEO of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), a professional society that creates and nurtures a global community in which people and businesses learn to grow and prosper through innovation and the introduction of new products. Robin is an adjunct full professor at the University of Delaware Lerner School of Business Administration, where she teaches courses on the Management of Creativity and Innovation. Robin worked at DuPont for 23 years in various aspects of innovation and new product development, achieving the role of Director of Innovation Processes. A certified new product development professional (NPDP), she received her PhD in Biochemistry from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has numerous publications and has presented at many conferences and workshops. The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) presented Robin with its Maurice Holland Award for the best paper in its journal <i>Research-Technology Management</i> in 2003. <p><b>Beebe Nelson</b> is Co-Director of the International Association for Product Development (IAPD), a consortium of leading product developers who come together to improve their ability to execute new product development. She has organized, chaired, presented at, and facilitated conferences and workshops in product development, and has contributed chapters and articles in a number of venues. From 1998 to 2003, she was Book Review Editor of the <i>Journal of Product Innovation Management,</i> a publication of the PDMA. Beebe is a certified new product development professional (NPDP) and holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Beebe has taught Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and most recently in the College of Management at UMass-Lowell. She chairs the Advisory Council of Partners in Ending Hunger, a not-for-profit organization located in Maine.</p>
<b>Anticipate the needs of your customers and launch your new product or service successfully</b> <p><b>Know the insider secrets, get your products to market, and make money!</b></p> <p>Looking to improve your product development process? This practical, behind-the-scenes guide provides the edge you need to develop and launch new products or services. No matter your size or type of business, you get tips for generating winning ideas, satisfying your customers, planning a blockbuster launch, and increasing your chances of market success.</p> <ul> <li>Develop your NPD strategy</li> <li> <p>Generate ideas forproducts and services</p> </li> <li> <p>Understand what your customers really want</p> </li> <li> <p>Keep projects on track</p> </li> <li> <p>Have effective cross-functional teams</p> </li> <li> <p>Collaborate with global partners</p> </li> </ul>

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