Exploring the: Product Development Zone
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- Best Practices in Ultra Low-Cost Product Development
- Ultra-low cost product development (ULCPD) is more than just lowering the cost of engineering and product development. It is about delivering high quality, innovative products in aggressively short timeframes with ultra-low development costs.
Columns Published: 4/25/2011
- The Reality of Science Fiction
- “From their actions—reaching out, grabbing at mid-air and clutching non-objects, or nobjects—these workers were clearly building something.
Columns Published: 4/25/2011
- Taking the Short Way
- The shortest distance between two points; 1980 Boston Marathon “winner” Rosie Ruiz; wormholes; anabolic steroids; the Panama Canal.
Columns Published: 4/25/2011
- A Simple Tool: Extraordinary Difference
- If you consider the negative impact of mistakes, you will quickly see how a small investment in making and using checklists will save you time, money, and reputation...
Columns Published: 4/22/2011
- How Product Constraints Help Product Development (Really)
- In the world of design and engineering, product requirements (also called “constraints”) can often feel like restraints to our creativity and ability to design a great product or solution.
Columns Published: 2/24/2011
- Addressing the Culture of Innovation--and Beyond
- Most Americans my age form their understanding of Korea from watching reruns of M*A*S*H, so I really didn’t understand at the time how groundbreaking this event I was witnessing really was.
Columns Published: 2/23/2011
- The Idea Filter
- Ideas are plentiful and we are awash in them; it’s just that there are just as many—or more—bad ones as there are good.
Columns Published: 1/6/2011
- The Social Network & Product Development
- Social networking continues its meteoric rise, with time spent on media such as wikis, blogs, instant messaging, visual conferencing, and chat rooms growing exponentially in recent years. According to Nielsen Online, time spent on social netwo...
Columns Published: 1/6/2011
- Scope Creep: Where to Draw the Line
- Managing scope creep effectively can lead not only to financial health for your firm, but higher levels of respect from your customers.
Columns Published: 1/6/2011
- Developing the Tata Nano: Product Development Lessons from an Innovative Product
- The Nano–the world’s most affordable car–is a vehicle that revolutionized the rules of automotive design and manufacturing, and created a totally new market, where none existed before.
Columns Published: 1/6/2011
