Digital Learning Division’s Vice President of Product Management, Greg Adams-Woodford, is beginning to feel the growing pains of a new product development process that he launched after joining the organization one-year ago. The process transformation from a “Waterfall” to “Aigle” methodology was introduced as a means to tackle a disconnect between what the customer wants and what the software developers are producing. As Adams-Woodford works to develop a product road map, he is faced with three critical
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Introduction The company that I am working at is an in-house property development management company for a medium size real estate investment and property development firm in Hong Kong. The firm is a subsidiary of a multi-disciplines Group, which also run other business including retail, financial services, publishing and printing, as well as hospitality. Previously, the major duty of the management company was to provide management services for maintenance and fitting out works for those retail
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Dynamic Model for COTS Glue Code Development and COTS Integration Wook K. Kim and Jongmoon Baik Department of Computer Science University of Southern California {wookkyuk,jobaik}@usc.edu 1. Introduction 1.1 Problem Statement and Description One of the most significant changes in the software development area is the trend of building systems incorporating pre-existing software, with special emphasis upon the use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software components. COTS describes software
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New Product Development: Marketing Approach of Prime Bank Ltd. Background Many Bangladeshi companies currently distribute their images through the Internet to clients all over the world, but the monetary transactions take place through conventional means. Some companies put messages on bulletin board, on ' internet yellow pages' with email links, and sometimes web pages, but there never is a place to submit a credit card. This is because currently the government does not permit credit card
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as the management of key business processes across the network of organizations that comprise the supply chain. While many have recognized the benefits of a process approach to managing the business and the supply chain, most are vague about what processes are to be considered, what sub-processes and activities are contained in each process, and how the processes interact with each other and with the traditional functional silos. In this paper, we provide strategic and operational descriptions of
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Final Project Report COEN 287 Software Development Process Management Winter2016 Instructor: Zoltan Kurczveil Dhara Tamhare Shilpita Roy Kevin Hong Preface Subject of software development process management provides us infinite knowledge and understanding while witnessing it in at company enables us to perceive how various lesson learned in class are associated at numerous level at
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Problems This case describes how 3M Corp. introduces and learns a new and innovative methodology titled Lead User research to understand future customer and market needs. A team from 3M's Medical-Surgical Markets Division applies the Lead User Methodology to the field of surgical infection control and discovers that there exist new product concepts together with a new business strategy. The problem here is 3M should decide whether this new strategy will be a tool for 3M 's strategy towards corporate
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Food Marketing APEC 4451 Fall Semester 2010 New Product Development Process Targeting and Segmentation Dennis J. Degeneffe The Food Industry Center University of Minnesota Why Introduce New Products? • The Case For Introducing New Products – – – “Organic Growth” - Shareholder value Competitive Position Capacity Utilization • The Case Against Introducing New Products – – Risk – the odds against success • High Odds of Failure* • High Cost of Failure “Cannibalization” of existing business
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touring wagon development project as a target of Digital Car Project. The ultimate objective of the project is to halve lead time of product development in BMW from 60 months to 30 month. As a result, the firm can incorporate reflect fickle customers’ tastes and the latest technology to their product development quickly and it enable them to fit the market needs strategically. If this change is successful, the experience and knowledge can be transferred to 7-series and all other new projects. It will
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Q1. How has 3M’s innovation process evolved since the company was founded? Why, if at all, does 3M, known as the “hothouse” of innovation, need to regain historic closeness to the customer? Ans1. 3M Corporation has small laboratory or research and development section with some technicians and doing experiments on sandpaper and developed some core technology at that time for 3M like masking tapes. After such core technologies development 3M achieved global reputation and become “hothouse”
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