Ryan Gray is Co-Founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a product engineering and design firm featured in The Lean Startup. Should your engineering department be doing product development? Two decades ago ...

Until about 10 years ago, most companies practiced product development. But they considered any exploratory activities that preceded it to be too risky, too lengthy, and have too low an ROI. It was ...

Fiat-Chrysler (FCA) is to consolidate its new product engineering and development units into a new global unit that it says will lead to faster speed to market and boost technological innovation. The ...

Engineering change management is fundamental to contemporary product development, addressing the inherent need to adapt designs in response to evolving customer demands, supply chain disruptions and ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Twelve trends affecting the science of managing R&D and product development are described in my January and February ...

Editor's note: Mark Dohnalek is President & CEO of Pivot International, the Kansas-based global product development, engineering & manufacturing firm. The best ideas take time to build. Moving ...

What impact have the current global uncertainties had on the company’s R&D and product development in recent months? With regard to R&D and product development, one of the biggest challenges is ...

Product development (“PD”) is a core competency for any product-oriented company, whether a Fortune 100 firm, a small engineering business, or a technology-based startup. Commercializing innovative ...