To some, "new product development" means inventing something new. In reality, though, most new products are modifications of existing products or ideas. Sometimes, adding an element of service onto an ...

Developing new products and services is important to the growth of small businesses. New products enable your company to enter new markets or increase your business with existing customers. However, ...

The small business environment today is very dynamic and competitive, and new product development is a crucial process if you want to survive. For small enterprises to withstand competition from ...

Product development may be understood generically as all the things that happen from the initial conception or invention of a product to the point when a product is launched into the market. It can ...

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 ...

Back in 2022, I wrote about the triple threat of additive, agility and automation—three forces that were already reshaping manufacturing and product development. Fast forward to 2025, and these trends ...

The first in a series of entries on the role and nature of function in Design. In the world of product development, it strikes me that the link between function and form is often broken. Evolution has ...