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The best Polo is no Polo at all! | Promise

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Project Management and Innovation Services. The best Polo is no Polo at all! If you are working as designer, engineer or project manager within NPD of mass consumer goods, this automatically gives an enormous responsibility. The product that you develop will be produced in large quantities and with a bit of (bad) luck will end up as waste in landfill or incineration. I think the example below, explains what I mean. Because the Polo is less bad, but the Prius is better! Now you might thinks that I’m tryin...

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Do you need three project managers for one project? | Promise

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Project Management and Innovation Services. Do you need three project managers for one project? New Product Development is all about a new Product. That’s a no-brainer. But to develop this new Product you need a Project, and to execute this Project you need People. So, NPD is about P. Eople These 3 dimensions of NPD each have their own typical characteristics and should be managed on different aspects and levels. And the 3 dimensions should be managed simultaneously. The picture below gives an overview.

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You don’t want a rapid prototype! | Promise

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Project Management and Innovation Services. You don’t want a rapid prototype! Rapid Prototyping technology is developing rapidly. 3D printing devices become affordable for “everybody”, and te use of Rapid Prototypes has become standard in most NPD projects. Title of the lecture was: You don’t want a rapid prototype! Prototyping event kortrijk 2012 V1. The main message was that a prototype is often seen as a goal. But in fact it’s is a means. The real goal is to build evidence! Therefore our colleagues of...

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Winning products: Solid requirement management or progressive sense? | Promise

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Project Management and Innovation Services. Winning products: Solid requirement management or progressive sense? In recent years we executed many projects for many clients at Promise and Pezy. One of the interesting difference we explored is how companies handle the product requirements. Let’s look at 2 distinct cases, one driven by upfront written requirements and one were the team acted on the product vision they have created and the obstacles they meet while achieving their vision. Trade-offs are be m...

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No decision is a decision too! | Promise

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Project Management and Innovation Services. No decision is a decision too! New Product Development (NPD) involves a lot of decision making. And, as well educated professionals we have learned to base our decisions on facts. On evidence. As a great one liner says:. If we’re gonna use opinion, I’d rather use mine. If you wanna change my opinion, you better bring me data! So we use data, to make choices. And we have a simple, but strong tool for it: the decision matrix, known as Pugh matrix. Making a decisi...

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Pezy Group is an international operating innovation group, consisting of several specialized product innovation companies. Our expert companies support leading A-brands and progressive small and medium enterprises. Together we help our clients energize their innovation and development processes to realize innovative products by offering world class services in strategy, design, engineering and industrialisation. Support you in your innovation challenges. Examples of our tailor made solutions include:.