Techniques for Effective Prioritisation
Gut feeling may be a valid basis for making decisions about your personal life but a more objective and rigorous approach is needed within R&D Management.
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Improving Product Features: When is More Less?
Different types of feature have different effects on customer satisfaction - analysis by Quality expert, Noriaki Kano, is just as relevant now as it was in 1984
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Loading and Turbulence in R&D: Is there a Reynolds Number?
A friend in R&D was moaning about how his CEO was forever loading new projects into R&D. “It just fouls things up”, he said, “The more we try and take on, the less actually gets done”. It got me...
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John Shave’s “Revenue Replacement Rule”
When I was an R&D manager I often used to face the situation John Shave describes in his introduction when I was asked to approve projects that didn’t seem to be an adequate use of the engineers’ time, and...
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How end user focus determines clock speed for R&D programmes
Procter & Gamble is a global consumer products company, the R&D activities are strongly driven by consumer needs and as a result the clock speed is fast. Many projects complete within six months to a year, with management...
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