Many aspects of Apple’s product development process have long been shrouded in mystery. The process is discussed in a new book Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired–and Secretive–Company Really ...

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The small business environment today is very dynamic and competitive, and new product development is a crucial process if you want to survive. For small enterprises to withstand competition from ...

To some, "new product development" means inventing something new. In reality, though, most new products are modifications of existing products or ideas. Sometimes, adding an element of service onto an ...

Outsourcing your product development requires various considerations, including requirement analysis, selecting the suitable cooperation model, hiring an agency or freelancer and avoiding a few ...

As we load up our cars for our annual holiday treks to visit friends and family across the country, many of us will also be loading our destinations into our phones and onboard navigation systems. I ...

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 ...

Product development is the engine of innovation—shaping industries, fueling growth and turning bold ideas into real-world impact. But the journey from concept to launch can be filled with friction.

Medical device design and development is a process that helps to ensure devices that go to market are safe, effective, marketable, and profitable. The process is a blueprint of the phases needed to ...

We just finished the biggest shopping season of the year from Thanksgiving to Christmas. A lot of people were making a lot of decisions about where to spend their hard-earned money -- mostly for the ...