Releasing a new product is not a task to take lightly. If the product does not sell as planned, it is a wasted investment in advertising, inventory costs and manufacturing. To avoid this scenario, it ...

Product development may be understood generically as all the things that happen from the initial conception or invention of a product to the point when a product is launched into the market. It can ...

The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) sponsored a human factors conference in Washington, DC, on June 28–30, 2005. During the conference, FDA systems engineer Peter ...

Product development brings with it many misconceptions about what the process is truly like and how to ensure you're getting the most out of those you've hired to help. Be it product design, ...

At the moment, a lot of time is spent developing and agreeing the first concept, colour direction, product visual, ...

"Necessity is the mother of invention." A quote attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato, the words continue to ring true nearly 2,400 years after his death in a vast array of situations and provide ...

While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

Ryan Gray is co-founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a full-service product development and engineering firm featured in The Lean Startup. In all things worth pursuing, there exists the ever-present ...

The product and process approaches originally appeared in education as different strategies for approaching writing in the classroom. Since their introduction, business people have retrofitted these ...

Over the past 15 years, most companies have adopted standard product development processes that have disciplined time lines, strict design reviews, “gates” to decision-making, and cross-functional ...