Managing New Product Development Teams

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Introduction
Sources of Innovation
Types and Patterns of Innovation
Standards Battles and Design Dominance
Timing of Entry Part Two Formulating Technological Innovation Strategy
Defining the Organizations Strategic Direction
Choosing Innovation Projects
Collaboration Strategies
Protecting Innovation
Organizing for Innovation
Managing the New Product Development Process
Managing New Product Development Teams
Crafting a Deployment Strategy Index

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Research has shown that large product development teams are superior to small teams because they can share the work and have better ideas.Commitment of team members is also higher.

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A cross-functional team is one that has members of different ethnic backgrounds in it.

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Cross-functional communication can lead to longer cycle times.

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Homogeneous teams should possess more information,on average,than heterogeneous groups.

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The personality traits of individuals do not have an impact on the success of new product development teams.

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Negotiating delivery deadlines is a task coordination activity.

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In a functional team approach to new product development,team members remain in their functional departments and meet periodically to work on the project.

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Functional team members are usually highly committed to development projects.

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Functional teams typically have a project manager or dedicated liaison personnel.

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In heavyweight teams,the long-term career development of individual members rests with their project managers rather than their functional managers.

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Heavyweight teams are permanent in nature.

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Lightweight teams are suitable for platform projects.

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The evaluation of members of a lightweight team is done by the project manager.

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Autonomous teams usually undertake derivative projects.

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The contract book must be developed before a project charter can be written.

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Project champions are suitable for heavyweight teams.

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The purpose of the contract book is to gain commitment to and ownership of the new product development from team members.

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If members of a new product development team live and work great distances from each other,a virtual team may have to be developed.

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In forming a virtual team,you should choose persons who avoid interaction so that no one person dominates the group.

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The decentralized self-coordination international virtual team is suited to architectural innovation.

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