Luncheon Breakout Session
Knowledge-Centric
New Product Development
Accelerating NPD Decision-Making
Charles "Chad"
Weinstein, PhD
Director, Knowledge Management Services
Sopheon Corporation
Research indicates that nearly
half of new product development (NPD) efforts fail. This
presentation explores how a growing number of companies are
beating these odds by deploying proven information management
technologies and techniques and improved market, competitive and
technology research in novel ways. These NPD organizations are
becoming "knowledge-centric," demonstrating:
- Improved ideation and innovation
- Better-informed strategic decision-making, selecting
winning projects, etc.
- Coordinated and informed project teams
- Collaborative work processes within and among project
teams
- Learning that is shared among projects and captured for
future re-use.
This presentation will focus on
an evolutionary process for developing these features, using
examples from research and client engagements. |