
What we’re about
WHO WE ARE
For manufacturing companies, innovation practitioners, service providers, academics, and students across a broad spectrum of markets, products, services, technologies, material sciences, supply chains, and distribution channels, HELLO NEW PRODUCTS is a vibrant product development community that shares experiences and knowledge of the principles, practices, and processes of effective, efficient, and economical product development.
Unlike struggling to learn product development in a vacuum and by costly trial-and-error, this group delivers tested innovation best practices from world-renowned product developers that provide professional growth for individuals and an innovation related competitive advantage for their enterprises.
WHO WE SERVE
New Product Development is a team sport. It's not limited to Marketing or Engineering. All business functions play a key position. HELLO NEW PRODUCTS provides specific new product development content and training to the following business functions:
- Project Management
- Marketing
- Industrial Design
- Product Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Manufacturing Operations
- Supply Chain Management
- Human Resources
- Quality Management Systems
- Technical Services
- Sales
- Info Tech
- Finance
Let us know if your business function doesn't appear on this list so we can develop content and training to meet your specific needs!
WHAT WE DO
We preach and teach process-focused content that addresses the entire product development lifecycle from "Potential to Profit". The main lifecycle segments include:
- Fuzzy Front End - laying the foundation for successful innovation
- Messy Middle - iterating from initial concept to final design
- Fussy Back End - ramping up for volume production
Within each NPD segment, there are six(6) tracks with specific learning objectives, including:
- Strategy & Planning
- People, Teams, & Culture
- Process, Execution, Tools, & Metrics
- Technology & Intellectual Property
- Customer & Market Research
- Co-Development & Alliances