Do you need a new product-development strategy?

Research Technology Management

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-43

  MacCormack, Alan ^a   Crandall, William ^b   Henderson, Paul ^b   Toft, Peter ^c  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Clarify LLC   (United States)

^c Hewlett Packard's Cloud Services Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile development processes; Process design; Product development; Stage Gate processes

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; BUSINESS UNITS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; END USERS; HEWLETT-PACKARD; NEW PRODUCT;

DATA VISUALIZATION; INDUSTRY; PROCESS DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84863570617     PISSN: 08956308     EISSN: 19300166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5437/08956308X5501014     Document Type: Article

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