Which activities before development help to identify what to do with a great idea

How to know if you should start developing that great idea

This article shows the importance of the activities before development and how to decide if you should start developing that great idea

Specifically, this article discusses the importance of having a Front-End, the advantages of it, and the activities it should contain.

In other words, it illustrates which activities you should do before developing anything in order to save the most time at the lowest cost and increase your new product’s success.
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Enhance team performance

8 simple tactics to enhance the success of your team

As a result of a literature review, 8 recommendations are setup to enhance the success of new product development (NPD) teams. These are applicable to almost any team even though they were initially stated for NPD teams.

NPD is defined as the phenomenon of developing newer, more innovative products. This means that you are part of a NPD team when your occupied with one of these activities. NPD teams focus also on developing new knowledge, advancing technologies and improving processes. Most of the time, a NPD team exists of members from different departments. This means that they might have different backgrounds, knowledge, skills experience and goals.
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