New Product Development (NPD)

6 important questions on New Product Development (NPD)

The role of marketing in NPD (state-gate model)

  • Technical activities
  • Market activities

What are the benefits of having gates in the NPD process?

  • Prevent spending money on failing projects: mortality curve
  • A way of structuring chaos: everyone has the same expectations
  • Create efficiency and speed

What would be the straw backs of stage-gate models?

  • No flexibility of strict criteria and evaluation
  • Limit learning, which reduces market performance
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What is process control? (in the stage-gate models)?

Steps or procedures the team must adhere to

What is output control (in the stage-gate models)?

Performance standards the project must meet

What are success factors in NPD?

  • Product: product advantage, meets customer demand, price, high/low tech, newness
  • Strategy: marketing/technological synergy, order of entry, HR/R&D/company resources
  • Process: speed, proficiency in predevelopment/technology/marketing launch, market orientation, customer input, cross-functional integration, top management support
  • Market: competition, market potential, uncertainty, dynamism
  • Organizational: size, centralization, formalization, climate, role champion, external relations

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