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ALSO CALLED: New Product Introduction, Electro-mechanical Product Development, NPI, Product Development Methodologies, Product Development Strategies, New Product Development, NPD
DEFINITION: Product development is a broad field of endeavor dealing with the design, creation, and marketing of new products. Sometimes referred to as new product development (NPD), the discipline is focused on developing systematic methods for guiding all the processes involved in getting a new product to market.There are a number of organizations dedicated to supporting product development professionals, such  … 
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Business Network Transformation: Product and Service Leadership
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: For manufacturers today, achieving strategic goals requires not only intimately understanding technology and markets but also overcoming higher hurdles that have been exacerbated by trends toward globalization and outsourcing. Read on to learn more about how your company can achieve product and service leadership.
Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009


ReadSoft helps frozen food pioneer Rich Products Corporation innovate its AP processing
sponsored by ReadSoft
CASE STUDY: AP processing has changed the ways the businesses have been doing business. Read in this paper how ReadSoft’s doing that and so much more.
Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 13 Oct 2009


Requirements-driven product development at EADS, Cardinal Health and Chrysler
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn how leading companies are improving product development by managing requirements across multiple disciplines!
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009


Lotus Symphony Demo
sponsored by IBM
PRODUCT DEMO: Work smarter with Lotus Sympony document software from IBM.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009


IBM Cognos Online Conference for Retailers and Manufactures
sponsored by IBM
VIRTUAL SEMINAR: This 2-hour complimentary virtual seminar on performance management (PM) takes place on October 21 and continues on November 4th — Join us to learn how PM can help you improve visibility into your manufacturing business so you can reduce costs, speed delivery and efficiency, satisfy customers and create innovative new products.
Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009


Creating and managing value-driven product portfolios
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The product portfolio decisions you make today will determine whether your company is relevant tomorrow. To increase the chances of marketing a successful product, organizations must deliver products and services to the consumers they value the most, and they must provide those deliverables when their consumers want them. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009


Be Prepared! Leverage SAP PLM to Navigate Through Uncertain Times - Podcast
sponsored by SAP America Inc
PODCAST: This podcast explores the business value of product lifecycle management (PLM) in an uncertain economy and explores SAP's approach to becoming more innovative, agile and efficient.
Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Premiered: 24 Jul 2009


Be Prepared! Leverage SAP PLM to Navigate Through Uncertain Times
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WEBCAST: This webcast explores the business value of product lifecycle management (PLM) in an uncertain economy and explores SAP's approach to becoming more innovative, agile and efficient.
Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Premiered: 08 Jul 2009


The Agile Project Manager
sponsored by VersionOne Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will explore the impact agile development methodologies are having on the Project Management community, what new skills are required, and what the Project Manager can do to ease the transition.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009


Application Server Quality: Review Your Assumptions
sponsored by JBoss, a Division of Red Hat
ANALYST REPORT: Application development professionals have better platform options to choose from than they might think. In this Forrester Research report, you'll learn about factors you should consider as application platforms evolve, four criteria that application development professionals should examine when selecting application server products, and more...
Posted: 02 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009


Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software solutions for green IT
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will explore best practices for green IT and how Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) can help companies achieve green IT processes for software application management. Specifically, ALM solutions can help IT organizations reduce energy consumption and costs associated with multi-site software development.
Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009


Creating and managing value-driven product portfolios - Improving product portfolio management to optimize your products, services and projects
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The best products to offer are those that provide a high level of value for both you and your customer. Companies with successful product portfolios often utilize a systematic process to effectively guide which projects are selected. This whitepaper explains how you can take advantage of a value-driven approach to product portfolio management.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009


Seven steps to achieving better requirements engineering in your organization
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Requirements engineering is about more than just analyzing documenting requirements. It is an important and multifaceted part of systems engineering that broadens the product development process. Companies that successfully introduce a new requirements engineering process don't just change their process and technology; they change their thinking.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009


Requirements engineering for the automotive industry.
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores requirements engineering and its groundbreaking role in product development and engineering for the industrial segment. It discusses the best practices and benefits of requirements engineering, and how automotive manufacturers can overcome today's quality and cost challenges using those best practices.
Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009


Top 10 Reasons Customers Choose SAP for Business Transformation
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: SAP is a customer’s company, whose organization is designed for, and encouraging of, innovation in all its aspects - from product development to product delivery to product implementation. Read this white paper to discover the top 10 reasons why customers choose SAP for their business transformation.
Posted: 01 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT DEFINITION (continued): … Product development is a broad field of endeavor dealing with the design, creation, and marketing of new products. Sometimes referred to as new product development (NPD), the discipline is focused on developing systematic methods for guiding all the processes involved in getting a new product to market.There are a number of organizations dedicated to supporting product development professionals, such as the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) and the Product Development Institute (PDI). According to the PDMA, the organization's mission is "to improve the effectiveness of people engaged in developing and managing new products - both new manufactured goods and new services. This mission includes facilitating the generation of new information, helping convert this information into knowledge which is in a usable format, and making this new knowledge broadly available to those who might benefit from it."
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