Further Reading

Many books have been written on Product Design and Development and NPD / NPI.

Four of the favourites are:

• Cooper, R.G. (2001) Winning at New Products : accelerating the process from idea to launch, 3rd edition, Reading, MA.: Perseus books
• McGrath, Michael E. (ed) (1996) Setting the PACE in Product Development : a guide to product and cycle-time excellence. Butterworth-Heinemann
• Baxter, M. (1995) Product Design: Practical methods for the systematic development of new products. Chapman and Hall, London
• Ulrich, Karl T. and Eppinger, Steven D. (1999) Product design and development, 2nd edition, London: McGraw-Hill

The first two focus on the process while the others concentrate more on the design and NPD activities themselves. Cooper is the father of the 'Stage-Gate' process for managing NPI. I like the McGrath book because it is short(!), and covers a range of NPI process issues. Baxter's book covers many design-related tools and techniques. Ulrich & Eppinger's book is takes more of an engineering perspective. Amazon UK links are provided for convenience.

Many more books and articles can be found here: Additional reading

A booklet titled A Guide to Effective Product Design is available.

Academic papers produced in relation to the Good Design Practice program are listed here: Academic papers

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