Managing product development cycle time can significantly improve a company's bottom-line performance. This book shows engineers and managers how to optimize cycle time for their particular product, industry, market, and customers. Included is guidance on allocating time, managing the total work effort within specific time periods, and providing the right resources in order to gain a dominant market position. The book describes approaches used in Europe, Japan, and the United States, and introduces a useful three-dimensional optimization model.

Exploiting Cycle Time in Technology Management

Business & Money

GAYNOR, Gerard H.

Management & Leadership

McGraw-Hill Professional

Master the proven principles of technology management (TM) to improve your company's financial performance and competitive position. Handbook of Technology Management, edited by Gerard H. Gaynor, gives you an enterprise-wide view of technology to help you manage your business as a system. . .optimize investments in technology. . .achieve efficient business integration. . .and monitor and measure TM effectiveness. Detailed case studies illustrate the TM efforts of such organizations as Motorola and Digital Equipment--valuable lessons you can use to ensure the success of your own company.

Handbook of Technology Management

DECISIONS focuses on how organizations can improve decision-making processes to improve organizational performance in a global economy. <ul>
<li>Presents research related to problems associated with meeting requirements, schedules, and costs</li> <li>Defines the scope of macro and micro decisions</li> <li>Raises the issue of the role of engineering, manufacturing, and marketing in making organizational decisions</li> <li>Includes references to Peter Drucker’s studies on decision-making</li> </ul>

Decisions: An Engineering and Management Perspective

Wiley-IEEE Press

Executives in all industries prize innovation as a key ingredient in market relevance, brand awareness, and bottom-line growth. Too often, though, innovation is relegated to traditional cradles of creativity like R &amp; D and marketing. Now this important new book shows how innovation can be a boon not just to a company's product line, but to every facet of its business. 
"Doing innovation" company-wide requires not only an attitude of innovation from every individual, but a corporate commitment to a new organizational model, in which every department is expected to innovate. Empowering companies toward that end, the author discusses: 
* idea generation, creating new models, and breaking rules * the roles of individuals, groups, and corporate culture in innovation * assessing the organization's infrastructure and resources * overcoming resistance and identifying what makes innovations fail * and every other component of creating economic value through innovation.

Innovation by Design: What It Takes to Keep Your Company on the Cutting Edge

Business Culture

Amacom Books

"Companies depend on the ability of managers to fulfill organizational vision and meet crucial objectives. But without a firm grasp of critical management competencies, new managers’ own futures -- as well as the company’s -- can be at serious risk. What Every New Manager Needs to Know gives readers the skills they need to excel in their new responsibilities, such as managing the relationship between individual and team performance, making key people decisions like hiring, coaching and evaluating, developing budgets, and mastering the skills of project management. The book explores the key roles managers must take on in different situations, and answers fundamental questions like: * What does it mean to be a manager? * What work can be delegated to others? * When is it -- and isn’t it -- appropriate to take on an active leadership role? Featuring examples and stories, What Every New Manager Needs to Know shows newly appointed managers how to think outside the cubicle and excel in their new roles."

What Every New Manager Needs to Know: Making a Successful Transition to Management

AMACOM