—Managing— New-Product Development
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Opportunity, Risk and Benefit
- Market opportunities
- Risk versus benefit
- Timing
- The competitive approach
- 2 Concept to Launch: The Development Cycle
- Project phases
- Idea
- Feasibility study
- Laboratory model
- Development
- Production engineering
- Production
- Trials
- Launch
- 3 Setting the Goal
- Projects
- The project leader
- Decision making
- Defining the need
- The requirement specification
- Goal setting
- Managing change
- Roles
- Product issues
- Single point responsibility
- Department versus function
- Status and role
- Motivation
- 4 Seeing in the Dark: The Need to Plan
- Why plan?
- Planning tools
- Planning techniques
- Network notation
- Creating a plan
- Planning in practice
- The critical path
- Resourcing
- What if…?
- Squeezing the plan
- Working with plans
- 5 Organising for Success
- Meetings
- Specifications
- Document control
- Managing change
- Working together
- Purchasing
- Reviews
- 6 Cost and Time
- Estimating
- The cost of change
- Managing cost and time
- Tracking expenditure
- Product cost
- 7 Understanding Technologies
- Managing technology
- Electronics
- Software
- New technologies
- Appendix A: Document Control
- Appendix B: Change Control
- Appendix C: Functional Specification
- Appendix D: Review Guidlines
- Appendix E: Requirement Specification Format