Chapter 11 – Managing the New Product Development Process
- Skullcandy: Developing Extreme Headphones
- The Idea
- Building an Action Sports Brand
- Developing the Ultimate DJ Headphone
- Overview
- Objectives of the New Product Development Process
- Maximizing Fit with Customer Requirements
- Minimizing Development Cycle Time
- Controlling Development Costs
- Sequential Versus Partly Parallel Development Processes
- Project Champions
- Risks of Championing
- Involving Customers and Suppliers in the Development Process
- Involving Customers
- Involving Suppliers
- Crowdsourcing
- Tools for Improving the New Product Development Process
- Stage-Gate Processes
- Quality Function Deployment (QFD) – The House of Quality
- Design for Manufacturing
- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
- Computer-Aided Design/ Computer-Aided Engineering/Computer-Aidea Manufacturing
- Tools for Measuring New Products Development Performance
- New Product Development Process Metrics
- Overall Innovation Performance
- Summary of the Chapter
- Discussion Questions
- Suggested Further Reading
- Endnotes