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Industry Expert versus Marketing Expert: the B2B approach

 Sometime ago I came across an exciting and very thought provoking blog post by John A. Murphy: “Marketing Expert Vs Industry Expert”. The author is warning about a danger of insisting on a previous industry-specific experience for a consultant who you… more »

An approach to integrate quality function deployment with competitive technical intelligence

Just came across an article: "This paper proposes the integration of Quality Function Deployment with Competitive Technical Intelligence in a model focused on the planning phase of product development. This model originated from the Total Quality Manag… more »

Quality Function Deployment or QFD - have you done it? How do you manage your new product development?

QFD - many of us are familiar with this method for translating customer needs into detailed product requirements. It integrates customer interview and market research techniques with internal cross-functional evaluations of the requirements. Did you ev… more »