Portfolio Management For New Products: Second Edition - Hardcover

In today's business climate, where speed to market is paramount and there is no margin for error, companies who fail to excel at new products have very little chance of survival. Companies who live and die by their products need better tools for aligning product development to strategy to ensure that resources are deployed efficiently from idea to launch across the full range of products.

In this fully updated and expanded edition of Portfolio Management for New Products, the authors present a rigorous and practical approach to managing a company's product portfolio as you would a financial portfolio - investing for maximum long-term growth. With its field-tested, step-by-step framework, the book provides managers with new strategies to assess and realign their current R&D operations; determine which products are most worthy of resource allocation; design and implement a portfolio management process; maximize the value of their portfolios; and recognize and solve challenges as they arise. This edition reports on the most current research; offers new insights on gathering and analyzing data; and showcases the practices of product market leaders, including, Pfizer, 3M, Caterpillar, Mobil Chemical, and Reckit-Benckiser.

Having established itself as the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the topic, this new edition ensures that Portfolio Management for New Products will continue to be an essential resource for any company whose profitability, and very existence, relies on the products it chooses to develop and the speed with which it brings them to market.

Based on years of field-tested research, Portfolio Management for New Products provides corporate leaders with the tools, practical guidelines, and cutting-edge strategies they need to manage their product portfolios, maximize their investments in R&D, and prosper in the competitive and volatile environment of product development. This revised, updated, and expanded edition showcases the most up-to-date research and practice.