Achieving The Competitive Edge Through Integrated Technology Management

Achieving the Competitive Edge Through Integrated Technology Management

Exploiting Cycle Time in Technology Management

Managing product development cycle time can significantly improve a company's performance. This book shows engineers and managers how to optimize cycle time for their particular product, industry, market and customers. Included is guidance on allocating time, managing the total work effort within specific time periods, and providing the right resources in order to gain a dominant market position. The book describes approaches used in Europe, Japan, and the United States, and introduces a useful three-dimensional optimization model.

Managing New Technology Development

New technology development starts with the generation of an idea. It ends with that idea's commercial application: a new product or a new service. In Between is a complex sequence of stages demanding specialized management methods. With this in depth survey, R&D, marketing, and engineering managers can learn from the foremost experts about the most successful, proven practices and techniques-for managing all the stages of new technology development.