Tag: Product

The Power of Product Platforms


Free Download The Power of Product Platforms By Marc H. Meyer, Alvin P. Lehnerd
2011 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1451655304 | EPUB | 8 MB
Most companies know that long-term success does not hinge on any single product but on a continuous stream of value-rich products that target growth markets. Yet many firms inexplicably develop one product at a time, and by doing so fail to embrace commonality, compatibility, standardization, or modularization among different products and product lines. At last, in this timely book, Marc H. Meyer and Alvin P. Lehnerd provide a formula for turning products into profits, enabling companies to design technologically superior products more easily. Their solution is, in two words, PRODUCT PLATFORMS. They argue that firms must focus their energies on developing families of products simultaneously which share common components and technology.The authors describe how the champions of product development separate themselves from less sophisticated companies by building entire families of strong products from a single "platform" of common product structures, technologies, and automated product processes. These successful companies recognize and respond to new market opportunities by integrating core skills and technology in the form of new products. In this easy-to-read and practical book, the authors masterfully elucidate this dynamic and forward-thinking strategy which enables companies to develop innovative products faster, more cheaply, and with less effort.Drawing on in-depth case studies and personal experience with successful companies such as Hewlett-Packard, EMC, Black & Decker, and Boeing, Meyer and Lehnerd show managers how to create extraordinary products and thereby set the standard for combined value and cost leadership in their products. They argue that when a company’s products are robust-highly functional, elegant in their design, reasonably priced, and a pleasure to use-the corporation will be equally robust. More importantly, The Power of Product Platforms reveals the methodology and organizational approach for designing, developing, and revitalizing strong products that enable the firm to make the transition from one generation of technology to the next. The authors also explain how well-designed product platforms can generate streams of derivative products through a continuous systematic process of renewal.Meyer and Lehnerd apply this methodology to a broad range of industries; manufacturing in both consumer and industrial markets, software firms, and Internet information services providers.This clear prescription for transforming the bottom line by aggressively managing product development and innovation will become required reading for large and small corporations alike, including entrepreneurs, all of whom depend on the excellence of their new products for growth.

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The Politics of Systematization in EU Product Safety Regulation Market, State, Collectivity, and Integration


Free Download The Politics of Systematization in EU Product Safety Regulation: Market, State, Collectivity, and Integration By Kai Purnhagen (auth.)
2013 | 257 Pages | ISBN: 9400765428 | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines the increasing role of the legal method of systematisation in European Union (EU) law. It argues that the legal method of systematisation that has been developed in a welfare-state context is increasingly used as a regulative tool to functionally integrate the market. The book uses the example of EU product regulation as a reference to illustrate the impact of systematisation on EU law. It draws conclusions from this phenomenon and redefines the current place and origin of systematisation in the EU legal system. It puts forward and demonstrates two main arguments. First, in certain sectors such as in EU product safety law, the quality of EU law changes from a sector-specific and reactive field of law to an increasingly coherent legal system at European level. Therefore, instead of punctual market intervention, it increasingly governs whole market areas. By doing so, it challenges and often fully replaces the respective welfare-based legal systems in the Member States for the benefit of the ideal of a market-driven EU legal system. Second, at European level, the ideal is in development. This illustrates the change of the function of Statecraft from nation-states to market-states.​

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement 24th International Conference, PROFES 2023, Dornbirn, Austria, December 10


Free Download Regine Kadgien, "Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 24th International Conference, PROFES 2023, Dornbirn, Austria, December 10"
English | ISBN: 3031492684 | 2024 | 172 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2023, which took place in Dornbirn, Austria, in December 2023.

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Product Standards, Exports and Employment An Analytical Study


Free Download Product Standards, Exports and Employment: An Analytical Study By Dr. Rajat Acharyya (auth.)
2005 | 149 Pages | ISBN: 3790815578 | PDF | 7 MB
This book makes an analytical study of implications of the new set of non-tariff barriers that are forthcoming on the exports of the developing countries in the disguise of quality regulations and environmental standards. It argues that in the present era of globalization, with technological revolution in the West raising the demand for skill-intensive, high value-addition and high-quality goods, export-led growth may not be a poverty-reducing strategy in the short run.

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PRODUCT LIABILITY Fundamental Questions in a Comparative Perspective


Free Download Helmut Koziol, "PRODUCT LIABILITY: Fundamental Questions in a Comparative Perspective"
English | ISBN: 3110546000 | 2017 | 623 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 3 MB
Where products develop ever more rapidly, the law may face difficulties in responding accordingly to new security threats which may arise. In the field of product liability, an extraordinary need for legal development has thus been perceived, with legislators and judges feeling compelled to find new solutions and to look across borders for these. In the detailed reports in this book, the World Tort Law Society proves that it is in an ideal position to examine the most significant concepts. The report on North America studies the special regime for product liability from its origin in the case law of the US; the European report is centred around the EU Product Liability Directive with its merits and faults; and the influence of these two systems as well as new answers are shown in the reports on Asia, Russia and four key jurisdictions in the rest of the world. Similar questions are discussed worldwide: How can a strict liability regime for products be justified, and can it be justified in all cases? How does the special regime relate to general rules of tort law? Should services be subject to a similar regime? The Members of the Society seek to provoke thought for solutions to these pervasive problems. In this spirit, the volume’s comparative conclusions invite discussion, and the book includes four responses to that call from eminent tort lawyers from different legal backgrounds.

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Clickbank Product Mastery: Finding $10K Per Day High Converting Products


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ClickBank Product Mastery is a counterintuitive approach to find unsaturated, winning products on ClickBank so that you can make predictable sales month after month. Say GOODBYE to wasting time and money on products that don’t turn complete strangers into profitable sales. We achieve this by circumventing low converting (and overly saturated!) products on the ClickBank Marketplace and put products through a 5 step checklist process to validate the winners. And as a result. you find products you are able to scale to thousands of sales per month – this is ClickBank Product Mastery.

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Product Management for Engineering Managers


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Published 9/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 48 KHz
Language: English | Size: 215.92 MB | Duration: 33m 38s
Engineering managers have a tough job, guiding engineers to balance business and tech priorities. This course will teach you how to collaborate effectively with product managers to foster a healthy engineering team that builds great products.

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