Manage your research, design and development
Introduction
All businesses need to keep improving their products, services and business processes to anticipate and respond to changing customer needs.
This means investing time and money into market research to establish these requirements and then into developing your products and services to ensure you meet them.
Research and development (R&D) - together with the design of new and modified products - forms an essential part of making your business more profitable and productive.
This guide looks at why R&D - and sometimes product design - are so important if your business is to remain competitive.
It advises on how to manage R&D and product design processes and details government support available for certain types of research and development activity.
Subjects covered in this guide
- Introduction
- What is research, design and development?
- Commercial benefits of research and development
- Exploring your ideas
- Strategy for research and development
- Research and development - investment and risks
- Managing the design process
- Knowing when to stop
- Funding your research and development
- Here's how I successfully managed an R&D project
