GGI 2004 Product Development Metrics Survey Summary : Executive Summary

The 2004 Product Development Metrics Survey focused on product selection, intellectual property (IP) management, and metrics. Results of the research are offered in three reports of increasingly detailed description and analysis: Research Highlights (MR31), Research Summary (MR32), and Research Results (MR34). These three separate reports provide, respectively, an executive summary, middle-management-level, and detail-level view of the survey data.The 2004 Product Development Metrics Research Summary is a 149-page report containing text and slides that describe and analyze the survey population as a whole. The report summarizes the overall survey results and provides details on the profiles of the survey respondents; product selection process; product selection tools; IP management process; IP management tools; and top corporate metrics used in industry RD&E.This research provides interesting results regarding the methods and tools companies use to select projects and to generate innovation and intellectual property. The report provides details on the management and decision-making processes and tools for intellectual property (IP). Also discussed are the similarities, differences, and interrelationships between the product selection process and the IP management process. The report also details the current usage of the metrics used to measure RD&E and compares this to results from the three prior GGI surveys of 2002, 2000, and 1998.Goldense, Bradford L. is the author of 'GGI 2004 Product Development Metrics Survey Summary : Executive Summary', published 2004 under ISBN 9781932468328 and ISBN 1932468323.