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03.04.13 NPD Glossary

Temporary Team

A temporary team is a group of workers who are assembled for a short time to accomplish a specific task or set of tasks. You can learn more new product… Read More

08.08.12 NPD Glossary

Compromising (Conflict Management Behavior)

Characterized by intermediate assertiveness and intermediate cooperativeness, compromising involves finding the middle ground and foregoing some of the individual’s concerns in order to satisfy some other concerns of the team. … Read More

07.25.12 NPD Glossary

Accommodating (Conflict Management Behavior)

Characterized by low assertiveness and high cooperativeness, accommodating involves foregoing one’s own concerns in order to satisfy the concerns of the other team members.  You can read more about the… Read More

07.05.12 NPD Teams

5 Types of Team Behaviors

In New Product Development, conflict is unavoidable.  We face conflict between marketing and engineering, customers and designers, suppliers and managers. Conflict.  Just saying the word causes our heart rate to… Read More

04.05.12 NPD Teams

Proper Project Staffing

Listen to the Idea Incubator podcast.  (Approximately 5 minutes long.)   [audio:https://0a11b2.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Idea-Incubator-podcast-5-Apr-2012.mp3|titles=Idea Incubator podcast 5 Apr 2012] In the March issue of The Village, a newsletter for the global New Product Development… Read More

03.08.12 Project Management

Innovation: Don’t Give Up Too Easily

Listen to the Idea Incubator podcast (approximately 4 minutes).   [audio:https://0a11b2.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/8-March-2012-Idea-Incubator-blog-post.mp3|titles=8 March 2012 Idea Incubator blog post] Men are notoriously difficult for me to select gifts.  I’ve resorted to cash and… Read More

12.01.11 New Product Development, NPD Teams

The Context of Communication

A few years ago, my husband and I had taken vacation to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee.  We counted ourselves lucky to see a black bear and… Read More

11.17.11 NPD Teams, Project Management

Managers Manage People!

Recently I attended a meeting on organizational development.  The topic was the Strong Interest Inventory assessment, something akin to Myers-Briggs or the DiSC survey.  As the speaker was describing the different… Read More

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10.06.11 NPD Teams

How a Criminal Trial is Like New Product Development

I was called to Jury Duty this week and, with a one-track mind, was reminded in the courtroom of the processes in New Product Development.  In both cases, proper planning… Read More

09.22.11 NPD Teams, Project Management

Don’t Call Me Unless You’re Bleeding

My actual words were, “Unless you are bleeding or something is on fire, don’t call me during off-hours.” Taken out of context, this sounds self-centered and rude.  However, this was… Read More

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