Many tasks in your career area require the use of teams. Learn the characteristics of the most productive teams on this blog post.
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Healthy relationship rules
So that your relationships grow and mature, take a look at a few basic relationship rules that will keep you going in the right direction.
Read MoreHow to build healthy personal relationships?
Knowing how to build and maintain a healthy relationship is a key ingredient in successful transitions. Consider the following guidelines in this post.
Read MoreStress and relationships
The body experiences stress from both positive and negative life events much the same way. Stress may make you drowsy, angry, euphoric or physically ill.
Read MoreTypes of personal relationship
Four basic types are: intellectual, emotional, sexual and physical. In some relationships, we have all of these types, in others – one or two types.
Read MorePersonal relationship: healthy and ineffective
The closest personal relationships are necessary for our health and spirit. We need to know we are cared for and we need to care for someone.
Read MoreHow to build a better relationship?
Several skills are involved in building relationships that are satisfying and nurturing. You must be prepared to make some effort to keep them going.
Read MoreHealthy relationships
They contribute to your overall well-being and sense of feeling valued. Here, people genuinely like and admire many of the qualities the other has.
Read MoreEmotionally drained relationship
These relationships can be very destructive. They slowly drain off our energy, frustrate us, and generally make for an unhealthy negative environment.
Read MoreReasons for new product failure
The failure of a product idea to be developed into a product is not necessarily a bad thing. It may save the company enormous sums of money.
Read MoreOrganisational structures and cross-functional teams
The use of cross-functional teams increases creativity in a new product development, leading to shorter development time and higher product innovation.
Read MoreNew product launch
Most new products are improvements or minor line extensions and may attract almost no attention. Other products will receive extensive coverage.
Read MoreProduct prototype
The item acquires a finite form and becomes a tangible good. Product designers may develop similar prototypes with different styles.
Read MoreScreening of business opportunities
Screening product ideas is, essentially, an evaluation process. It occurs at every stage of the new product development process.
Read MoreProduct concept
Transforming a list of ideas into product concepts. For a product idea to become a new product concept, these are required: form, technology, need.
Read MoreRecognising opportunities and generating ideas
It is the process of collecting possible business opportunities that could, realistically, be developed by the business into successful products.
Read MoreNew product development management
Well-functioning global NPD teams become a critical capability by which firms can leverage much more diverse set of perspectives for the global NPD effort.
Read MoreNew product development models
Department stage models, activity stage models and concurrent engineering, cross-functional models, decision stage models and other.
Read MoreNew product development process
The early stages of the new product development process are usually defined as idea generation, idea screening, concept development and concept testing.
Read MoreWhat is a new product in marketing
A product can be defined differently and can take many forms. Some dimensions will be tangible product features and other intangible.
Read MoreProduct growth strategies the Ansoff matrix
One of the clearest ways of identifying the variety of growth options available to a business is using Ansoff’s (1968) directional policy matrix.
Read MoreNew product development considerations
The effects of any corporate planning may be important and long term. Decisions by market planners may have equally significant effects.
Read MoreNew product development definition
New product development concerns the management of the disciplines involved in the development of new products. Learn more here.
Read MoreStrategic thinking skills
Understand the strategic relevance of your own activities, know how to think strategically, play the strategy game, understand the nature of strategy.
Read MoreProblem solving skills for managers
Find the right problem, find the problem owner, use your experience, avoid the perfect solution, stay future-focused, keep it simple and other.
Read MoreHow to solve problems
A workable solution is preferable to the perfect solution because it leads to action. The perfect solution is the enemy of the practical solution.
Read MoreHow to influence decisions
Anchor the debate on your terms, build your coalition, build incremental agreement, size the prize, frame the decision favourably. Learn more here.
Read MoreDecision making practice
Ask yourself three questions: is there a pattern I recognise here, who does this decision matter to, and why, does someone know the answer anyway.
Read MoreThe hidden traps in decision making
Analysis over action, seeking perfection over practicality, hiding behind other people and shedding responsibility. Learn more here.
Read MoreGuiding principles for decision making
Good managers are often referred to as being decisive. No one can teach it and it is assumed that either you have it or you do not.
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