Managing the New Product Development Portfolio and Pipeline: An Integrated Approach

在国家科学基金会创新与组织变革计划的支持下，本研究将数据建模、调度方法和仿真建模相结合，开发和测试了用于新产品组合管理的决策支持系统。它将开发一种管理新产品开发组合的综合方法，将战略规划、组织流程、决策、风险评估和资源规划联系起来。根据风险和战略评估、开发过程阶段以及资源能力和调度，研究人员开发工具来确定投资组合的优先顺序。它们包含了从技术、设计架构和资源角度对项目间联系的理解。北电、莲花、强生、大赛集团和Design Continuum正在为案例研究和模拟模型提供输入。这项研究将帮助公司有效地管理新产品开发组合，并更有效地规划和利用整个业务的能力。

With support from the National Science Foundation's Innovation and Organizational Change Program, this study combines data modeling, scheduling approaches, and simulation modeling in developing and testing a decision support system for the management of new product portfolios. It would develop an integrated approach to managing new product development portfolios that links strategic planning, organizational processes, decision-making, risk assessment, and resource planning. Based on risk and strategic assessment, development process stages and resource capacity and scheduling, the researchers develop tools for portfolio prioritization. They incorporate an understanding of inter project linkages from technical, design architecture, and resource perspectives. Nortel, Lotus, Johnson & Johnson, the Concours Group, and Design Continuum are providing input to the case studies and simulation models. The research will help companies effectively manage new product development portfolios and more effectively plan and utilize capacity for the entire business.