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2011 New Product Development Professional Survey

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Career advice from Louis Pasteur – Part I

Recently a candidate asked me to describe how I planned my career to do what I do today. He was probably very surprised that I was amused at the question and merely replied, “I never planned to do what I do today. I just took advantage of opportunities as they arose.”

If you are thinking of your career as something to be planned out and then executed, or if you are feeling adrift because you can’t find a job doing what you planned to do, it’s time to rethink your notion of a career.

Not that long ago, career counselors advised students/clients to understand themselves

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Skills

As a new product development professional it is important to stay on top of the latest new product development practices and methodologies. As you are aware, new product development is complicated and difficult to execute for many reasons, including: multiple disciplines, typically in different departments, using different frameworks and speaking different languages, must collaborate effectively. 

New product development requires the orchestration of multiple corporate systems and processes, such as strategy, portfolio management/resource allocation, development processes, teams, organizational structure and customer/marketing data and the environment in which your company operates is constantly changing due to new technologies, trends and competitive activity. 

It is difficult to do it all right, and to align it correctly throughout your organization. Even world-class organizations struggle with improving success metrics. So, how do you remain a valued member of a new product development team or leader of new product development?

The only way to stay on top of your game and avoid irrelevancy in a challenging and changing world is to commit to continual learning.

Our parent company, Strategy 2 Market, provides training that helps you as a new product development professional to understand and tame the complicated nature of new product development. We help you build your skills so you’re a valued member on your new product development team.

We offer different types of new product development training depending on your individual needs. Please go to our training site to learn more: http://www.strategy2market.com/training.html

 
 

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