eBook: New Products Management 11e

Along with the management approach, this title presents the perspective of marketing throughout which enables the text to have a balanced view.

New Products Management provides future new product managers and team leaders with a complete toolkit for learning and executing the product development process. Students learn how real-world managers oversee effective strategy development, manage teams, evaluate ideas, and manage the technical and financial aspects of new product management. Book jacket.

Taking a managerial approach, in order to acquaint students with the managerial steps and processes involved in new product development, this work includes coverage of product protocol.

Projects continue to grow larger, increasingly strategic, and more complex, with greater collaboration, instant feedback, specialization, and an ever-expanding list of stakeholders. Now more than ever, effective project management is critical for the success of any deliverable, and the demand for qualified Project Managers has leapt into nearly all sectors. Project Management provides a robust grounding in essentials of the field using a managerial approach to both fundamental concepts and real-world practice. Designed for business students, this text follows the project life cycle from beginning to end to demonstrate what successful project management looks like on the ground. Expert discussion details specific techniques and applications, while guiding students through the diverse skill set required to select, initiate, execute, and evaluate today's projects. Insightful coverage of change management provides clear guidance on handling the organizational, interpersonal, economic, and technical glitches that can derail any project, while in-depth cases and real-world examples illustrate essential concepts in action.

Crawford's New Product Management 12e provides the management approach to teaching new products, with the perspective of marketing. Adopters of previous editions will notice that the format is slimmed down to 18 chapters. This streamlined presentation focuses on the topics that will be of most importance and interest to new product managers. Significant updates can be found throughout, and great pains have been taken to present the "best practices" of industry and relevancy to readers. Past adopters of New Products Management will notice major changes in this edition. While there are some changes in virtually every chapter, some of the most substantial changes are as follows: 1.We have made major additions and updates to the cases to provide more plentiful and more current examples. We retired several cases from the previous edition, wrote many new cases, and thoroughly updated many others. New cases for this edition include: Oculus Rift, Adidas Parley sustainable running shoes, Google Glass, Indiegogo, Tesla, Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, Corporate Social Responsibility at Starbucks, and many others. As always, we aim to offer a mix of high tech products and consumer products and services in the set of cases. 2.In addition, we have substantially updated examples throughout the text wherever possible.We try to make use of illustrative examples that will resonate with today’s students wherever possible. Of course, we welcome the reader’s comments and suggestions for improvement. 3.There continues to be much new research in new products, and we have tried to stay current on all of these topics. Readers will notice new or expanded coverage of portfolio management, value curve creation, the TRIZ method, crowd-sourcing, crowdfunding,observational research, open innovation, organizational structure, 3D modeling, beta testing, sustainable product development, and frugal innovation,among other topics. 4.We continue the practice of referencing Web sites of interest throughout the text,and we have added the web addresses for several useful YouTube videos and other resources.

Product Management is becoming an important function of marketing. This book presents a broad perspective of the subject to develop a correct perception about it, and is divided into twenty seven chapters.This is the first attempt by the author to bring out the essential facets of product management. The book contains a mix of text as well as research based articles.This book covers the following topics: v How to be an effective product manager?v Changing job function of product managersv How to select the right product managers?v How to improve the efficiency of resources?v Effective marketing planv New product development and selection procedurev Factors that can influence the success of a brandv Measuring brand equity and valuing brandsv Brand architecturev Concept of UCPv New product introduction

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