And in the realm of New Product Development, Robert Cooper and Scott Edgett are giants of our field
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This, in turn, will go a long way toward helping you keep product development resources consistently focused on those products with the greatest revenue and profit potential. Endnotes 1 COOPER, R.G. and EDGETT, S.J. New Problems, New Solutions: Making Portfolio Management More Effective (Reference Paper #9). 2 COOPER, R.G., EDGETT, S.J. and KLEINSCHMIDT, E.J. (2001) Portfolio Management for New Prod-ucts: Second Edition, Perseus Publishing
He's earned a Mechanical Engineer degree from The Cooper Union and an Industrial Design degree from Pratt Institute
Among the suggested activities to be performed during the “Front-End” of the innovation are: The alignment of the ideas generation and selection to the innovation strategy, the adequate management of the ideation processes establishing rules and procedures and the support and autonomy to employees for creativity tasks. According to (Cooper et al., 1999) portfolio management is measured according to the goals such as having the right number of projects for the available resources, avoiding the pipeline gridlock in the portfolio, achieving a balance portfolio according to some criteria and ensuring the portfolio is aligned with the business’s strategy
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