New Product Development


Date: June 2008
Author: Richard Phillipson
Price: £5,000 to non-members of the Investit Intelligence member service

This research defines the challenges of introducing new products across the fund management firm and its suppliers and analyses the issues for operations, IT and technology.

The pervasiveness of change when new products are developed is well recognised. However, the business justification of new products and the co-ordination of change required to launch and support profitable products is not always well handled. In this paper we identify why these problems occur and offer a template for best practice in product development.

Table of contents
  Management Summary 1
1.0 Introduction 3
  1.1 Structure of this paper 4
  1.2 Methodology 5
2.0 Product Portfolio Management 7
  2.1 Have we got marketing? 8
  2.2 What business are we in? 10
  2.3 Product management 12
  2.4 Are new products important? 14
  2.5 Operational impact 15
  2.6 Product maintenance 16
  2.7 Product closure 17
3.0 NPD Management 19
  3.1 Formalising NPD 20
  3.2 NPD in the organisation 22
  3.3 Supplier management 26
  3.4 Measuring NPD success 29
4.0 Idea Generation 31
  4.1 Evolution or revolution 32
  4.2 Research 34
  4.3 Treating Customers Fairly and NPD 38
5.0 Product Selection 41
  5.1 Business case outline 42
  5.2 Product selection 46
6.0 Implementation 47
  6.1 Project background and purpose 48
  6.2 Project description and objective 48
  6.3 Project organisation 48
  6.4 Risks and assumptions 49
  6.5 Constraints and dependencies 49
  6.5 Communication 49
  6.6 Workarounds 49
  6.7 The post implementation review 50
7.0 Towards Best Practice 51
  7.1 Product portfolio management 52
  7.2 NPD management 53
  7.3 Idea generation 54
  7.4 Product selection 55
  7.5 Implementation 56


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