New Product & Service Development

New Product Development (NPD) is a critically important source of competitive advantage in today’s global economy. At the same time, successfully developing new goods and services is challenging.

The Center aims to advance our understanding of new product development success and learning from failure. NPD success requires balancing creativity and discipline, discerning emerging trends, adopting diverse methodologies to glean insights about customer needs and aspirations, applying systematic processes to transform marketplace needs into innovations, and leading the market by commercializing market-defining technologies.

Yeti Drives Product Innovation Through Its Ambassador Program

Yeti Drives Product Innovation Through Its Ambassador Program

Shelley E. Kohan, Chief Strategy Officer, The Robin Report

Innovation 2030: 5 Predictions

Innovation 2030: 5 Predictions

Aric Rindfleisch, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign

Follow a Four Stage Process

Want to Have a Successful NPD Alliance? Follow a Four Stage Process

Murray Milson, ’93 Ph.D., Cal State Univ.

When Should You Outsource R & D

When Should You Outsource R&D? Consider Capabilities and Project Characteristics

Jason Pattit, ’12 Ph.D., University of St. Thomas

Wither the In-House Research and Development

Wither the In-House Research and Development (R&D) Lab?

Jason Pattit, ’12 Ph.D., University of St. Thomas

Manage Customer Heterogeneity

Managing Customer Heterogeneity for Competitive Advantage

Gerard Athaide, ’95 Ph.D., Loyola U. Maryland

Want to Accelerate NPD

Want to Accelerate NPD? Adopt These Five Approaches

Murray Milson, ’93 Ph.D., Cal State Univ.