Hardware development rewards humility, discipline and clear thinking. The lessons above are rarely learned quickly, and never cheaply. But teams that internalize them gain something powerful: the ...

Ryan Gray is co-founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a full-service product development and engineering firm featured in The Lean Startup. In all things worth pursuing, there exists the ever-present ...

Product development programs meet two types of measurable goals – goals that relate to the product itself and goals that integrate product development with broader business goals. Product-related ...

The first in a series of entries on the role and nature of function in Design. In the world of product development, it strikes me that the link between function and form is often broken. Evolution has ...

You can take your own ideas or those of others and use them to develop new products, but the process is full of challenges. Turning an idea into a marketable product is complex and multifaceted. You ...

Outsourcing your product development requires various considerations, including requirement analysis, selecting the suitable cooperation model, hiring an agency or freelancer and avoiding a few ...

Product development (“PD”) is a core competency for any product-oriented company, whether a Fortune 100 firm, a small engineering business, or a technology-based startup. Commercializing innovative ...

Product development may be understood generically as all the things that happen from the initial conception or invention of a product to the point when a product is launched into the market. It can ...

At least half of all product launches fail to live up to companies’ expectations. For every four projects that enter development, only one makes it to market, according to a recent study at Georgetown ...

Launching a product will not happen over night. It takes time, horsepower, creativity and smarts to launch a successful product. We will walk you through each stage, from concept to launch, to help ...