Strategic product creation : deliver customer satisfaction from every level of your company /

Strategic Product Creation is a true working guide to developing market-savvy, cost-effective products and services. Delivering expert guidance in the five key stages of product development, authors Ronald Kerber and Timothy Laseter present real-world examples of industry leaders who have produced i...

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Main Author: Kerber, Ronald L.
Other Authors: Laseter, Timothy M., Russell, Max
Format: Book
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2007.
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Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip071/2006030953.html
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Key concepts
  • Product creation leadership: delivering business results
  • Product idea generation: sensing customer needs and market opportunities
  • Technology capabilities: separating invention and execution
  • Product creation process design: leveraging discipline and judgment
  • The competitive product portfolio: integrating process and product architecture
  • People and project management: inspiring and leading the workforce
  • Innovation partnerships: connecting the extended enterprise
  • Part II: Case studies
  • Walt Disney Imagineering: stories of the impossible
  • Mars Incorporated: consumer-driven innovation
  • Whirlpool Corporation: building a global product creation capability
  • United Technologies Corporation: discipline and balance in innovation
  • IBM: leveraging customer focus, research, and collaboration.