1. Introduction to product planning -- 2. Strategy and process -- 3. Organizing people -- 4. Opportunity identification -- 5. Concept generation -- 6. Concept evaluation -- 7. Technical development -- 8. Design -- 9. Market planning -- 10. Commercialization and launch -- 11. Life cycle...

Purpose: The paper aims to address the issue of generalizability by examining process formality across the global regions of North America, Europe and Asia. A common prescription in the new product development (NPD) discipline is to employ a formal process. Because generalizability of this...

An important consideration in solving the problems of new product forecasting entails distinguishing new product forecasting from the process of forecasting existing products. Particular differences between the two can be identified across the dimensions of data, analytics, forecast, plan, and...