Editor's note: Mark Dohnalek is President & CEO of Pivot International, the Kansas-based global product development, engineering & manufacturing firm. The best ideas take time to build. Moving ...

When speaking of design, people often refer to the user experience (UX) or user interface (UI) but, in fact, design is also a product development process, involving architecture and infrastructure.

Long-term road maps are multiyear plans you can use to plot the life cycle of a new product. Road maps enable you to create realistic development and marketing budgets for the goods your firm produces ...

The best applications are simple and easy to use, but developing those applications is exceptionally hard work. Even seemingly basic apps require a considerable amount of time and effort to create.

Product development is facing a fundamental challenge. Unfortunately, at the very moment when companies need to make better products more efficiently, previous performance innovations in product ...

How to ensure everyone in your organization is aligned with the company vision — and how doing so enhances both your workplace and the product development process. How to connect your company to its ...

TUKWILA, WASH. – Speed is a key component of the new product development process today. The days of ideation and innovation taking place over a long period of time are gone. The process is now ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Working on a new product is always an exciting and risky process, even when you have all the data suggesting that the product is a win.

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 ...

Market researchers use perceptual mapping to compare products (and potential products) based on the perceptions of customers. The purpose of a perceptual map is to identify the images that consumers ...

A strategy meeting with a client. When manufacturers need to get to those breakthrough ideas—and not just once, but regularly—partnering with a product development company can help. But if the process ...