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Product Development Best Practices Report
The Product Development Best Practices Report is a monthly newsletter for development professionals -- engineers, marketing and sales people, service folks -- who see that traditional roles and functions are blending together, not growing more specialized. It's for all professionals involved in product development who need to integrate technology, tools, and teamwork to stay in the race.
Each issue will provide you with time-saving and profitable insights on:
- How to shorten time-to-market, increase market share and decrease overhead, by building teams that work together, not at cross-purposes.
- How to design products that truly delight the customer. Lessons from top experts on how to capture the "Voice of the Customer," how to learn from lead users, and how to communicate these key learnings throughout the organization.
- How to use external benchmarks to establish a point of reference and set targets. How to break through the rut of your own past experience to achieve innovation and excellence. (We'll even help you find benchmarking partners.)
- How to get organizational buy-in. How to make sure that everyone in the organization has the same goals and objectives.
- How to bring suppliers into the process early. How working in partnership will ensure higher quality components and more timely delivery. Caveats to bear in mind.
- How to use the growing array of groupware technologies like Lotus Notes to allow multi-site teams to collaborate effectively.
- How to measure, recognize and reward performance in a team environment. Is your team motivated? If not, you may be heading for trouble.
To compete, your firm must be willing to make changes and take risks, and it must do so intelligently. Since everyone in the organization needs to be more proactive and flexible than ever before, why not take the lead?
The Product Development Best Practices Report gives you access to successful implementation case studies that you can relate to. You'll learn the techniques and methodologies that others -- possibly even your competitors -- use to stay ahead, and you'll learn how to go further. In the past year alone, in-depth case studies of Motorola, Harley Davidson, Keithley Instruments, Foxboro Company, AMP, Abbott Laboratories, Xerox and many others have provided a wealth of information on what works -- and what doesn't.
The Product Development Best Practices Report researches and brings you the latest and boldest product development strategies and practices. It zeroes in on actionable information. It connects you to your peers whose firms we feature in each issue. It's untainted by advertising and it's fun to read. You'll look foward to each issue arriving on your desk.
Of course, you'll want to judge the Product Development Best Practices Report for yourself, and you can very easily. Just click here to fill out the trial subscription form right now, and we'll send a you a risk-free 3 month subscription.
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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
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