Introduction
New product developments are one of the main sources of competitive advantage for companies today. Companies need new product to keep up with its’ competitors. New product development can be considered as activities that aim to bring new products to market.
The objective of NPD is to minimize the risk of failure. As NPD absorbs both financial and human resources from a company, it is therefore necessary to develop and implement a methodology for assisting in the introduction of new products.
NPD models can help to identify problems at an early stage and assist in directing the NPD effort in the right direction. It can be used as a roadmap and provides an indication of magnitude of the project required in order to develop
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Stages are cross functional and each activity is undertaken in parallel to enhance speed to market. To manage risk, the parallel activities in a certain stage must be designed to gather vital information – technical, market, financial, operations – in order to drive down the technical and business risk. Each successive stage is also more costly than previous stage. The idea is to allow an increase in spending on the development of projects as the uncertainty goes down. Preceding each stage is a decision point or gate which serves as a go/kill and prioritization decision point.
The advantages of the stage-gate are following:
- Well organized innovation can be a source of competitive advantage.
- Accelerated product development. Necessary because of shortening product life cycles.
- Increased success chance of new products. Prevents poor projects early and helps to redirect them
- Integrated market orientation.
Multiple convergent model
The multiple convergent model (Baker and Hart, 1994) follows parallel processing – like the stage-gate model - which allows iterations among participants within stages. However, there are two problems with parallel processing. First, it ignores the important inputs to NPD that are provided by customers and suppliers. Second, if functions are to work in parallel then when do the processes take decisions and move on to the next stage?
The multiple convergent model overcomes the issue by
Every company will focus on supplying a service, product, or both. How and where the product is made plays a crucial role in the company’s success. In order to help visualize how the products are made process maps are formatted. These process maps can help to identify areas that need improvement. In order to implement improvement, process development will be implemented. The form of good that a company supplies is also important and to ensure that the best product is distributed product development is conducted. Target Corporation is a complex company, which provides consumers with their necessities.
Companies find opportunities in product innovation by providing new products and services to customers. This keeps current customers interested in doing business with the company and has the potential to attract new customers. Sometimes this is done by creating new products, greatly changing an existing product or by just changing the way the current product is presented. Another form of product innovation is branding. By creating a more positive brand image a company can keep the interest of consumers.
Innovations form the main sources of competitive advantages and are always of significance for the growth of a company. Companies or organizations put their greater efforts in improving their performance by finding new ideas and knowledge on the best way of beating their competitors and therefore give satisfaction to their customers. There are various factors involved in the innovation design system which can be either internal or external.
It has ability of achieving targeted results. It provides improvement by modifying the process. Employers get motivated to understand new processes.
It will enable you to concentrate resources on improving profits, reducing costs , exploring opportunities, knowing of the limitations and increasing returns on investment.
Speedup time to market. Because there are more people involved the process of innovation is faster
But as derived from the companies design for the new product, it is expected that the project will be successful and introduced in the time frame pre determined. In looking that there is already a competitive product out to that of the project, the company is expecting that with the new features, and adds on possibilities it will as well bring a positive outcome for the project (PMI, 2004).
B) The stage gate process is an iterative project management tool in which a project is divided into stages and separated by gates. The rapid prototyping process on the other hand is a product development method that emphasizes more on adjusting/changing the requirements according to the knowledge gained as the project progresses rather than the traditional approach of rigorous planning before the development
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Starting a new product is never easy for a company. The difficulties they face are diverse in nature, and often they lack initiatives so that customers are not interested in the product.