Welcome to the New Building Products Development Guide

How do you use the tools?
New Product Development
- What is NPD?
How to choose the right New Product Development process for your firm
- New Product Strategy, Structure, Process, and Performance
- Answers to questions about NPD
How to manage the NPD process chosen by your firm
Incorporating all the necessary activities into the NPD process
- Characterizing and Improving NPD
Deciding which NPD activity to begin with
- process flow diagram example
Process step description including required inputs, required outputs, responsibilities, and supporting tools
- process description example
Roles and responsibilities for performing each process step or producing each process step output
- process output responsibility matrix example
Description of each design review and gate review
- phase-gate example
Agenda criteria for prototype product builds
- product build criteria example
How to choose a management process suited to your firm

This visual demonstrates how the parts of this web tool work together in the New Building Products Development Guide.