Product Development Management (10cr)

Objective

Student can:
- Recognize how product development and R&D processes and activities are related to company´s business
- Explain product development processes´ phases and content
- Utilize different tools to enhance and facilitate creativity and development
- Lead and manage basic R&D projects
- Understand the context of service business and productizations
- Define productizations´ needs in different cases
- Develop services to cover different needs in products´ life cycle

Content

R&D in business context and as strategic asset
Product development processes and tools
IPR, quality and standards in product development
Service business processes and industrial context
Productizations processes