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Synopsis:

Patterson, Director of Corporate Engineering for Hewlett-Packard, shows how successful, well-tested concepts from the manufacturing domain can be readil transferred to the needy world of new product development. Annotation copyri Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Table of Contents:

The Importance of Innovation Cycle Time
Process Improvement Considerations
Designing Metrics
Side Trip: A Dip into the Meme Pool
Product Development: An Information Assembly Line
Adding Value to Information
Management's Role in Innovation
Summing Up
Appendix
Index.