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Speeding new product development When the Clock Is Ticking

Wristwatches from IWC Schaffhausen do more than tell the time. These handcrafted and technically sophisticated luxury timepieces are a man's best jewelry piece and can become sought-after collector's items. IWC Schaffhausen wanted to speed new product development to capitalize on a booming market. The challenge was to continue the tradition...

Tags: Siemens AG, New Product Development, Product Marketing, CAD, Marketing, Software

Case studies 2007-11-01

Konka Leverages PLM to Build Momentum for new product development and Introduction

Konka's goal is to create such innovative mobile phones that it overtakes foreign competition and becomes the leading domestic supplier in China. To address these challenges, Konka Telecommunications implemented a managed development environment based on UGS solutions, NX software and Teamcenter software. The company chose to partner with UGS in...

Tags: UGS Corp., New Product Development, Konka, Product Marketing, Channel Management, Marketing

Case studies 2007-02-01

Lean Initiative Revolutionizes new product development at Liming Aero-Engine

Founded in 1954, Shenyang Liming Aero-Engine Group Corporation Liming is China's first jet-propelled aircraft engine manufacturer and one of the country's key development projects. Shenyang Liming Aero-Engine Group wanted to create a lean enterprise and reduce costs. The challenge was to shrink product development cycle and improve quality. The company...

Tags: Siemens AG, New Product Development, Product Development, Product Marketing, Aerospace & Defense, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Manufacturing, Management

Case studies 2007-01-01

Plastiken Targets Mold Design as Key to Implementing a new product development Initiative

Plastiken S.L. is one of Spain's leading manufacturers of injected plastic household, garden and do-it-yourself items. Plastiken wanted to dramatically improve mold design process and comply with ISO 9000 standards. The company implemented Unigraphics NX software and knowledge-based mold design application and NX Mold Wizard. This result in new product...

Tags: Siemens AG, New Product Development, Standards, ISO 9000, Plastiken S.L., Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Product Marketing, Quality, It Operations, Business Operations, Marketing

Case studies 2006-09-01

Rotobec Introduces Innovation for new product development

Rotobec, located in Sainte-Justine, Quebec, Canada, is the North American leader in continuous rotation attachments grapples. The company wanted to maintain market leadership in the face of increasing competition from Europe and North America to boost efficiency of product development to control costs and speed time-to-market. To increase efficiency of...

Tags: Innovation, Siemens AG, New Product Development, Rotobec, Product Development, Product Marketing, Strategy, Leadership, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management

Case studies 2006-07-01

Integrate suppliers into new product development

This sample chapter from Supply Chain Redesign: Transforming Supply Chains into Integrated Value Systems explains how supplier involvement in new product development can have both positive and negative impacts on technology risk and uncertainty, then explores the factors that determine whether supplier integration is the right decision for a particular...

Tags: Supply Chain, Supplier, New Product Development, Channel Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Book chapters 2006-05-15

Chinese Automaker Gears Up to Compete With Innovative new product development Processes and Tools

Beiqi Foton Motor Co., Ltd., founded in 1996, manufactures, distributes and services light, medium and heavy trucks, including SUVs and RVs. Beiqi Foton Motor Co wanted to dramatically improve competitiveness in Chinese auto market by bringing new concepts and vehicle introductions to market faster. Teamcenter-based engineering process management fosters product...

Tags: Siemens AG, Configuration Management, New Product Development, Tool, Knowledge Management, Product Marketing, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Data Management, Management

Case studies 2006-03-01

Project Portfolio Management for new product development: Tracking the Project Cycle from Idea to Launch

Besides being relevant to professional services organizations PSO and internal information technology IT departments, project portfolio management PPM software is applied in multiple vertical markets in the area of new product development NPD. In industries ranging from manufacturing and high technology to consumer goods and biotechnology, PPM solutions help manage...

Tags: APQC, Project Portfolio Management, New Product Development, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Product Marketing, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Marketing

White papers 2006-01-06

new product development and Introduction (NPDI): Powered by SAP NetWeaver

New Product Development & Introduction NPDI is one of the most important business processes for a company in the manufacturing industry. However, it is not often done properly or smoothly - due to disconnected systems and process flows. This webcast explains how mySAP Business Suite and the new SAP xApps...

Tags: SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, New Product Development, Product Marketing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Marketing, Software

Webcasts

eRoom Improves new product development Processes at Black & Decker

Black & Decker is a global manufacturer and marketer of quality power tools, hardware, and home improvement products used in and around the home and for commercial applications. Black & Decker felt its current IT solution was hard to administer and involved some complicated licensing schemes which were getting in...

Tags: eRoom, Black & Decker Corp., New Product Development, Product Marketing, Marketing

Case studies

Case Study: The Skye Group - new product development in the Fashion Industry

The Skye Group is a successful Australian company whose activities include the management of the design, manufacturing, distribution and in certain instances the retailing of household brands. It became clear fairly soon that the root cause of the problems within the design function at Skye was developing multiple ranges, each...

Tags: Industry, New Product Development, Skye Group, Product Marketing, Branding, Manufacturing, Marketing

Case studies

A Leading Software Development Company Uses Mindjet MindManager to Simplify new product development

Embarcadero Technologies provides a suite of award-winning products that enable organizations to efficiently and accurately architect, integrate, administer, and ensure critical enterprise applications and their underlying databases. The challenge was to manage complex, fast-changing software development projects in a way that keeps the process focused, transparent and immediately accessible to...

Tags: Software, Embarcadero Technologies, New Product Development, Mindjet, Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management

Case studies

Additional Resources

Introduction to BIT

This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...

Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software

Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....

Tags: Software, Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Survey, Verdiem, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-05-15

BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking

Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...

Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Exclusive: First look at the FastMac U-Charge

Here's an exclusive sneak peak of FastMac's newest product - U-Charge. U-Charge is a portable, standalone charger that connects directly to the battery's terminals to recharge the battery quickly and efficiently. It's compatible with over nine years of Apple laptop batteries as well as after-market/third party replacements...

Tags: Apple PowerBook, Apple MacBook, Battery, FastMac U-Charge, Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-15

A robotic chef for your kitchen?

The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...

Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge

In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...

Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Off Topic: Integrating mobile devices can be a challenge

I've been working through a project for a KG client that involves running through the same script on Windows XP, Mac OS X (10.5) and Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. I mentioned the overall parameters of that effort in the post Off Topic: Desktop evaluation - Linux, Mac OS and...

Tags: Microsoft ActiveSync, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Mobile Device, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Linux, Desktops, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-15