Chapter 25. Balancing Schedules, Budgets, and Business Risks

Throughout the chapters of this book we have described strategies and methods that can be adapted to design new products and processes. The objective is to make them more robust to the stresses in their applications and thereby have higher reliability and durability. The work to achieve those designs is in the context of your product development process, which itself is linked to processes for portfolio balance, product planning, and technology development. The ongoing development of your company’s capabilities, employees’ tools and skills, business relationships and supply chains, for example, supports these processes. They are integrated to provide competitive advantages.

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