How to Get Things Done

Some projects get off to a fast start, but soon lose momentum and become mired. You can do two things to avoid this fate on the projects you lead.

• Create a project culture that favors action.
• Implement a consistent system for measuring progress on projects.

Read on to see how.
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New Product Development: Stages and Methods

"The new product development process has the potential to be haphazard because of the inherent uncertainty in the process, as well as the myriad methods available for product development. Setting up an organizing framework to identify the stages in the process, and the methods applicable to each stage, should help in bringing order to the process.

Our purpose in this article is to lay out a framework and identify key methods that are most likely to be useful in each stage. The focus here is on methods that use quantitative data collected mainly through the web thus bringing more validity and flexibility to the process along with speed to market."

Read the complete article.

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Flexible Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets

"When you develop new products:

• Do customers change their minds in the middle of the project?
• Do competitors launch threatening products after your design 'freeze?'
• Does technology change before you can bring it to market?
• Does your system facilitate making these changes smoothly?
  

Flexible Product Development, written by Preston Smith, is aimed at restoring the flexibility needed to innovate in new product development. Flexibility is essential to move with the changes that are inevitable during the development cycle as customers change their minds, markets shift, and new technologies arise and fade. Unfortunately, most development organizations have declined greatly in their flexibility in recent years."

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If you’d like to know more about the Malco Design & Deliver Group, or any of these topics, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Contact David Clark at David.Clark@MalcoD2group.com or 866-204-0148.

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