Handbook of Product and Service Development in Communication and Information Technology

Have you ever considered ...
How to efficiently organize and manage the multiple, parallel development projects of ICT?
How to systematically channel your team's creativity to high quality products and services?
How your company can best benefit from university research?
What are the meaning and realization of quality systems in modern ICT organizations and processes?
How to design user interfaces to maximize product usability and market value?
How to maximize the benefits of Internet in your product development and marketing?
*What are the roles and important practices of patenting, and licensing in the US and Europe?

This book aims to give you a top-down treatment in these and many other important topics of ICT product and service development. Our primary objective is to provide you with an eagle-eye view both in theory and in practice and to trace the state-of-the-art development. Book authors come both from universities and industry giving thus a theory and practice balancing touch for the material.

Klappentext

Have you ever considered ... How to efficiently organize and manage the multiple, parallel development projects of ICT? How to systematically channel your team's creativity to high quality products and services? How your company can best benefit from university research? What are the meaning and realization of quality systems in modern ICT organizations and processes? How to design user interfaces to maximize product usability and market value? How to maximize the benefits of Internet in your product development and marketing? *What are the roles and important practices of patenting, and licensing in the US and Europe? This book aims to give you a top-down treatment in these and many other important topics of ICT product and service development. Our primary objective is to provide you with an eagle-eye view both in theory and in practice and to trace the state-of-the-art development. Book authors come both from universities and industry giving thus a theory and practice balancing touch for the material.

Zusammenfassung

Have you ever considered ...
How to efficiently organize and manage the multiple, parallel development projects of ICT?
How to systematically channel your team's creativity to high quality products and services?
How your company can best benefit from university research?
What are the meaning and realization of quality systems in modern ICT organizations and processes?
How to design user interfaces to maximize product usability and market value?
How to maximize the benefits of Internet in your product development and marketing?
*What are the roles and important practices of patenting, and licensing in the US and Europe?

This book aims to give you a top-down treatment in these and many other important topics of ICT product and service development. Our primary objective is to provide you with an eagle-eye view both in theory and in practice and to trace the state-of-the-art development. Book authors come both from universities and industry giving thus a theory and practice balancing touch for the material.

Inhalt
Overview.- Systematic Idea Production, and Cultivation in High Techproduct Development.- User Centered Design of Telecommunications Services.- Product Development Generations: Some Lessons from Personal Digital Assistants and Palmtop Computers.- Project Portfolio Management in Telecommunications R&D.- Quality in High-Tech Product Development.- Innovations in the Internet and Mobile Era: The real dot.com revolution Web.- Patenting and Intellectual Property Rights in Academic Industrial Ventures.- Finance and Venture Capital Markets.- Role of Universities in the Product Development Process: Strategic Considerations for the Telecommunications Industry.