Managing the R&D pipeline

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Techniques for Effective Prioritisation

By rnd-admin
on 13 September, 2018

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.

Managing the R&D pipeline

Managing the R&D pipeline

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Kano model of product or service features 2

Improving Product Features: When is More Less?

By rnd-admin
on 5 January, 2018

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

Managing the R&D pipeline

Managing the R&D pipeline

By rnd-admin
on 11 May, 2017

Efficiency of engineers working on multiple projects

Loading and Turbulence in R&D: Is there a Reynolds Number?

By rnd-admin
on 5 May, 2017

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...

John Shave’s “Revenue Replacement Rule”

By rnd-admin
on 28 February, 2017

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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Techniques for Effective Prioritisation

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