New Product Development

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

(Formerly numbered 266A.) Lecture, three hours. Requisite: Management-Executive MBA 411 or Management-Full Time MBA 411 or Management-Fully Employed MBA 411. Examination of new product development (NPD) process with objective of learning key tools and methods and applying them to case studies, exercises, and course project. Products viewed through three lenses: quantifiable rational attributes, appeal due to emotional characteristics, and cost/technology/competitive tradeoffs. NPD process also investigated through five key phases: ideation, concept generation and selection, detailed design, prototyping and testing, and ramp-up and product launch. Coverage of mass customization, parallel prototyping, cost reduction, and creativity. Letter grading.