Launch Strategy

Visions - March 2011

Visions Magazine "Insights into Innovation"  March 2011 IssueVisions is PDMA’s quarterly print/digital magazine that provides practical information and case histories in new product develo...

Deliberate practice - Pursuing perfect product launch

Publication: March, 2011, Visions Articles
It is easy for any stakeholder to specify the outcomes desired at product launch. But figuring out how to achieve those outcomes within specific project constraints is more difficult. This article exa...

Domino’s Pizza reinvents itself: The story-behind-the-story of the new product launch

Occasionally the launch of a new product makes national headlines. That’s what happened when Domino’s Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) relaunched its flagship product—pizza—with an unconventional publicity b...

Visions - December 2010

Visions Magazine "Insights into Innovation"  December 2010 IssueVisions is PDMA’s quarterly print/digital magazine that provides practical information and case histories in new product dev...

Stretching stages and gates to strengthen innovation results

Over the past three decades, a number of formal “gated” systems have evolved to help new product developers move their innovations from ideation to launch. One of the first of these was Stage-Gate...

Insights on Brooks’ Law and launch

Publication: June, 2008, Visions Articles
What do you do when your launch date is approaching and there are unexpected obstacles? What if you have options to enlist more resources? This article explores the implications of adding resources an...

Who will you designate as “Launch Architect”?

Publication: June, 2007, Visions Articles
In a large percentage of new product efforts, most of the engineering development is finished before the launch plan is assembled. Typically, the launch plan is built by a cut-and-paste method with a ...

Vaccinate your project against failure by making better decisions

New product development (NPD) managers can readily see the symptoms of failure in launch and innovation, but where are the root causes? In this article, Greg Githens describes symptoms of NPD failure ...

Proactive “sales readiness” strategies can help companies sell new products more efficiently

Is it time to re-evaluate how you prepare your sales organization for the launch of your next new product? What can you do to enable your sales representatives to be more effective with decision-maker...

Making robust launch decisions— Part 3

Publication: April, 2006, Visions Articles
In Part 3 of this three-part series, Visions Launch Editor Mark Hart provides readers with several suggestions for making the robust decisions regarding team activities. (See Part 1, July 2005 and Par...
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