France has been viewed as an innovative country since before the reign of Louis XIV—a farsighted economic innovator in his own right. Today France ranks fourth in terms of R&D investments of the top...
Global innovation is continuing to attract attention these days as successful New Product Development practices used by multinationals— and even mid-sized companies working in multiple counties—ev...
Product developers are constantly searching for the reason success rates are slow. The authors argue that one solution is better incorporation of trend analysis into the Front End....
For product developers involved in the front end, Boston is the place to be each spring—at the annual conference on The Front End of Innovation (FEI) sponsored by PDMA and IIR. Here developers will ...
Surprisingly little research has been done evaluating the burgeoning number of techniques used in the front end, particularly the “ideation” portion, where ideas come into the funnel before they a...
The Front End of Innovation (FEI) continues to spur the discussion of numerous new techniques and tools for exploration of this portion of the new product development process. In this report, the auth...
Excitement ran through the halls during the 5th Annual Front End of Innovation Conference held by PDMA/IIR in Boston, Mass., last May as experts discussed a variety of approaches to the Front End of I...
Sometimes we forget that product development encompasses fields such as entertainment. In this column, the author gives us a humorous look at how one company created a very successful entertainment ve...