Product development is facing a fundamental challenge. Unfortunately, at the very moment when companies need to make better products more efficiently, previous performance innovations in product ...

Ryan Gray is co-founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a full-service product development and engineering firm featured in The Lean Startup. In all things worth pursuing, there exists the ever-present ...

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 ...

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 ...

AI is gaining popularity among product managers and being used by companies like PepsiCo and Toyota. Generative AI can be used to brainstorm product ideas or assist in creating marketing materials.

Deliverable-based metrics offer a product development team objective measures of project progress—and the focus needed to get the job done. David Warburton Many new product development programs fail ...

Product developers who observe end-users' behavior in the actual environment of use generate tangible, workable information about a device—and the requirements of the people who use it. Stephen B.

Consumer product development scientists use principles of chemistry, physics and engineering to study and develop products that range from food and personal care items to medicine and medical ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Kevin Bailey Artificial ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized consumer products, powering a new generation of smart devices. Behind every successful IoT application is a team of hardware engineers and software ...

Product development, no matter the industry, is both an art and a science. Bringing a concept to life requires intensive research, ingenuity, risk-taking, iteration, testing, and a little magic. More ...

Quest Product Development with partner Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation have won a NASA Small Business Innovation Research grant to develop an advanced thermal insulation needed for long ...