As a result, it was left up to other corporations to take the new product development cycle into their own hands.

I've built a team from scratch and fully understand the product development cycle.

All these factors have allowed us to enjoy quality and a reduced product development cycle.

Still, after seven years at Intellicorp, she found herself unwilling to sign up for another product development cycle.

Kodak is not the only manufacturing company to compress its product development cycle.

It is important to the product development cycle, but it isn't really the place you want most of your testers to be in.

Therefore, such technique, when used effectively, can achieve breakthrough designs in potentially shorter product development cycles.

Traditional product development cycles acquire user feedback at junctures where new insights are often difficult to incorporate.

Mr. Martin has since restructured the new product development cycle to accelerate the process companywide.

"We have taken a seven-year product development cycle time and condensed that down to two years because we must respond instantly to market requirements."

Companies can also perform simulations in early stages of the product development cycle, so they avoid failure modes during testing or manufacturing phases.

Too often, product design and performance problems are not detected until late in the product development cycle - when the product is ready to be shipped.

The Company takes product candidates from exploratory research through the entire product development cycle up to the establishment of sales and marketing channels for its tests.

While mostly orientated towards the end of the product development cycle, this technique involves extensive customer interaction through employees of the host organization.

He was in favour of user-centered design process in product development cycles and also worked towards popularizing interaction design as a mainstream discipline.

Such a short product development cycle is an impressive accomplishment for I.B.M., which is famous for its deliberate ways.

ALTEN covers the whole product development cycle with its specialized companies, and provides a range of services from technological consulting to projects outsourcing.

Exploitation capability (the number of patent, the number of new product announcements, the length of product development cycle)

The units will focus on specific product segments, including hair care, laundry and feminine hygiene, and are expected to speed up the company's lethargic product development cycle.

In a business like ours, with a product development cycle of 10 to 12 years, there's a particularly difficult tension between investing for the long term and accommodating investors' expectations every 90 days.

"The Lean Startup approach relies on validated learning, scientific experimentation, and iterative product releases to shorten product development cycles, measure progress, and gain valuable customer feedback.

If you looked at the benefits this brings to the nation, you would agree that computers have improved the productivity in ways measured differently than pure output, such as shortened product development cycles.

Yet with product development cycles of up to two years, designing a phone for the rapidly changing tastes of American teenagers can be as tricky as doing a kickflip on a moving skateboard.

In addition, the time needed to get the machine into production was 18 months, half the usual three-year product development cycle, and the cost of manufacturing less than what the Japanese companies wanted from Kodak for their machines.

Big Improvement Expected "What we've done is trash our traditional product development cycle, completely redefined job functions, organizational structures and identified management and control systems that need to be in place," Mr. Fletcher said.