Product Development Trends and Innovations
with Professor Steven Eppinger from MIT's Sloan School

Faculty Director of MIT’s Product Design, Development, and Management Program

Professor Steven Eppinger of the MIT Sloan School of Management is recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on engineered product development. His leading textbook, Product Design and Development, is used at hundreds of universities around the world. We recently spoke with Professor Eppinger about current trends and innovations in product development. Listen to the interview (MP3) Download interview transcript (PDF)

INTERVIEW AGENDA

1. Development Speed: Using digital design, analysis, and collaboration tools to get products to market faster.
   
   
2. Platform Flexibility: Using modular product architecture to provide more product variety to customers.
   
   
3. Complexity Management: Engineering complex systems through analysis of interaction networks.
   
   
4. Outsourcing / Offshoring: Optimizing supplier skills and capacity, international operations, and new markets.
   
   
5. Lean Principles: Improving product development process efficiency by applying lean production ideas to PD organizations.
   
   
6. Customer Involvement: Using the Internet to bring customers' ideas into the product development process.
   
   

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