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—Managing— New-Product Development
von Geoff VincentInhaltsverzeichnis
- 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.
- 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.