Robert G. Cooper

In Portfolio Management for New Products, the authors present a rigorous and practical approach to managing a company's product portfolio as you would a financial portfolio - investing for maximum long-term growth. With its field-tested, step-by-step framework, the book provides corporations and managers with the methods and strategies they need to assess and realign their current R&D divisions, determine which products are most worthy of resource allocation, design and implement a portfolio management process, maximize the value of their product portfolios, create balanced portfolios, and recognize and solve challenges as they arise.

In Product Leadership, Robert Cooper reveals the winners' secrets, and offers managers an invaluable resource to help implement and oversee systematic high-quality new product processes; develop new product strategies; manage product portfolios; determine which products to kill and which to back with resources; and foster ingenuity to outperform the competition. Showcasing examples from the winners, Cooper demonstrates that it takes a commitment from all managers, including marketing, finance, R&D, and HR, to triumph over the competition and become a leader in the new products war.

"In Product Development for the Service Sector, product development experts Robert Cooper and Scott Edgett present, for the first time, a comprehensive approach to product development tailored specifically for the dynamics of service industries. Drawing from their own extensive primary research and the experiences of pioneers like Sprint, Visa, Marriott, and the Pennsylvania Energy Company, the authors identify the nine critical steps for achieving project success - from doing solid, up-front homework to ensuring a quality launch effort."--BOOK JACKET.