—Managing— New-Product Development

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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.