Product Development Cycle Time and Commercial Success

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 297-304

  Meyer, Marc H ^a   Utterback, James M ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE; MARKETING; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TECHNOLOGY;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CYCLE TIME; PRODUCT PLANNING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 0029409855     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: 15580040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.482080     Document Type: Article

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