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Convenience, vulnerabilty and upgradeability in innovative product development

A growing theme in innovative product developments of the last decade is exploiting the benefits of connection. The public has shown time and again that it values the convenience of connection very highly. But there is a sometimes implicit trade-off. For instance, the rise of internet banking has been a gold mine for organised crime. The [...]

Innovative Product Development – where do I look for the opportunity?

New innovative product development has many engineering challenges, but most projects that fail won’t fail for engineering reasons, they’ll fail for business or organizational reasons. So how do you reduce these risks?

Choices in sourcing product development

So you are planning to conduct a new product development. You’ve quite a number of choices:

You could in source – i.e.do it yourself if you have the capability
You could in source the design but augment your team

Multidisciplinary Product Development: Managing for Success

Project risk management in complex or innovative product developments facilitates resource prioritisation and benchmarking between projects, leading to a better return on R&D investments.