Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical New Product Development Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any New Product Development related project.
Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.
The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated New Product Development specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the New Product Development Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
Then find your goals...
STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track
Featuring 991 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which New Product Development improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:
- How do we ensure that customer advisory boards are informed about and aligned with regulatory and compliance requirements, and what steps do we take to ensure that their feedback does not compromise these requirements?
- What are the potential implications of AI and ML on our organizational structure and talent acquisition strategy, and how can we ensure that we have the necessary skills and expertise to drive AI-powered innovation?
- Are there any specific training or capacity-building programs in place to ensure that new product development teams have the necessary skills and knowledge to meet environmental and sustainability standards?
- What is the role of cross-functional collaboration in balancing innovation with cost-effectiveness in new product development, and are there any existing barriers to collaboration that need to be addressed?
- What is the role of continuous learning and professional development in ensuring that our teams have the skills and expertise needed to balance innovation with cost-effectiveness in new product development?
- What is the role of product managers and other stakeholders in facilitating customer advisory board discussions, and how do we ensure that their biases and assumptions are not influencing the conversations?
- In what ways do we currently sacrifice thoroughness and rigor in order to accelerate the development process, and are these sacrifices having a negative impact on product quality or customer satisfaction?
- What are the potential implications of AI and ML on our intellectual property and patent strategy, and how can we ensure that we are adequately protected from potential AI-related risks and threats?
- What is the current process for responding to customer feedback and complaints on social media, and how do we ensure that these interactions are documented and fed back into the development process?
- What are the key performance indicators we use to measure the speed and agility of our new product development process, and how do we weigh them against metrics that evaluate thoroughness and rigor?
Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:
- The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the New Product Development book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your New Product Development self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the New Product Development Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which New Product Development areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
- Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
- Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough New Product Development Self-Assessment
- Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
- Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:
STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy
The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage New Product Development projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step New Product Development Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 New Product Development project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Probability and Impact Matrix: How do you analyze the risks in the different types of New Product Development projects?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Are New Product Development project activities decomposed into manageable components to ensure expected management control?
- Human Resource Management Plan: Is the manpower level sufficient to meet the future business requirements?
- Procurement Audit: What are your ethical guidelines for public procurement?
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Availability â will the group or the person be available within the necessary time interval?
- Team Member Performance Assessment: What qualities does a successful Team leader possess?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Research risk management software. Are many products available?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Is action taken to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of New Product Development projects?
- Probability and Impact Assessment: Is it necessary to deeply assess all New Product Development project risks?
- WBS Dictionary: Identify potential or actual budget-based and time-based schedule variances?
Step-by-step and complete New Product Development Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 New Product Development project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 New Product Development project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 New Product Development project Scope Statement
- 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
- 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
- 2.9 WBS Dictionary
- 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
- 2.11 Activity List
- 2.12 Activity Attributes
- 2.13 Milestone List
- 2.14 Network Diagram
- 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
- 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
- 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
- 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
- 2.19 New Product Development project Schedule
- 2.20 Cost Management Plan
- 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
- 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
- 2.23 Cost Baseline
- 2.24 Quality Management Plan
- 2.25 Quality Metrics
- 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
- 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
- 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
- 2.30 Communications Management Plan
- 2.31 Risk Management Plan
- 2.32 Risk Register
- 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
- 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
- 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
- 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
- 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
- 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
- 2.39 Change Management Plan
3.0 Executing Process Group:
- 3.1 Team Member Status Report
- 3.2 Change Request
- 3.3 Change Log
- 3.4 Decision Log
- 3.5 Quality Audit
- 3.6 Team Directory
- 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
- 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
- 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
- 3.10 Issue Log
4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:
- 4.1 New Product Development project Performance Report
- 4.2 Variance Analysis
- 4.3 Earned Value Status
- 4.4 Risk Audit
- 4.5 Contractor Status Report
- 4.6 Formal Acceptance
5.0 Closing Process Group:
- 5.1 Procurement Audit
- 5.2 Contract Close-Out
- 5.3 New Product Development project or Phase Close-Out
- 5.4 Lessons Learned
Results
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any New Product Development project with this in-depth New Product Development Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose New Product Development projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
- Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
- Integrate recent advances in New Product Development and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make New Product Development investments work better.
This New Product Development All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.
Includes lifetime updates
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
