In this fully updated edition of Portfolio Management for New
Products, the authors present a rigorous and practical approach to
managing a company''s product portfolio as you would a financial
portfolio-investing for maximum long-term growth. With its
field-tested, step-by-step framework, the book provides
corporations and managers with the strategies they need to assess
and realign their current RD operations; determine which
products are most worthy of resource allocation; design and
implement a portfolio management process; maximize the value of
their portfolios; and recognize and solve challenges as they arise.
This book will be an essential resource for any company whose
profitability, and very existence, relies on the products it
chooses to develop and the speed with which it brings them to the
market.
關於作者:
Robert G. Cooper is a professor of marketing at McMaster
University. Founder of the widely employed StageGate product
development process, he lives in Oakville, Ontario. Scott J. Edgett
is associate professor of marketing at McMaster University and
director of the Product Development Institute. He lives in
Ancaster, Ontario. Elko J. Kleinschmidt is professor of marketing
and international business and director of the engineering and
management program at McMaster University. He lives in Ancaster,
Ontario.