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Title: REVOLUTIONIZING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT : QUANTUM LEAPS IN SPEED, EFFICIENCY, AND QUALITY by Steven C. Wheelwright ISBN: 0-02-905515-6 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Master piece, but nothing is perfect
Comment: Excellent book, it describes the management principles for the whole new product development (NPD) process. The graphical frameworks provide a valuable synthesis of knowledge. The practical examples are the right complement to their conceptual postulates. The book is highly advisable for all actors involved in the NPD process. However, it must be a "compulsory" reading for general managers and executives within manufacturing plants, because of its strategic orientation.
Specially delicious are the chapters about aggregate project plans (Ch. 4) and Structuring the Development funnel (Ch.5). They contain the basic principles to halt those managers that want to tackle all the projects with the same limited resources.
The only gap in the book is the unclear link between the "pre-project" stages of the development (Development goals and objectives, and Aggregate project plan), and the project management phase. The authors fail to clearly establish where the project leader and teams joint into the development. More specifically, project definition is missed on exhibit 2-11.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book on product development
Comment: This book, written in 1992, started a whole revolution in looking at the management of product development. Concepts like: the funnel to focus the organization on the right projects, an aggregate project plan, and the best two pages on project management that I have ever read are in this book. If you are planning to change your new product processes, this book is a necessity. Steven Wheelwright is a genius and you can read his brillance in this book.
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Title: Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools, 2nd Edition by Preston G. Smith, Donald G. Reinertsen ISBN: 0471292524 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 10 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: LEADING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT : THE SENIOR MANAGER'S GUIDE TO CREATING AND SHAPING THE ENTERPRISE by Steven C. Wheelwright ISBN: 0029344654 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Winning at New Products: Accelerating the Process from Idea to Launch by Robert G. Cooper ISBN: 0738204633 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development by Milton D. Rosenau, Abbie Griffin, George A. Castellion, Ned F. Anschuetz ISBN: 0471141895 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 27 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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Title: Portfolio Management for New Products by Robert G. Cooper, Scott J. Edgett, Elko J. Kleinschmidt ISBN: 0738205141 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.00 |
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