The challenges of managing in a high-tech environment can be overwhelming. To be competitive, organizations must strive to continually bring new products to market or seek out the benefits of incremental changes to their internal processes. One of the greatest challenges may be fostering the innovative spirit while keeping engineering teams both motivated and focused on the organization's product development process.
Research is conducted to define trends, lifestyle changes, and status of competitive products.
A product concept that compliments the existing product line is developed and clearly communicated internally. Quality assurance and information systems support the entire process from conception through manufacture. Cooperative efforts between employees, departments and vendors result in a sense of ownership of the new product, hence the shared excitement each time a new product concept requires formulation. Employees exhibit characteristics such as altruism, courtesy, and conscientiousness which leads to a cooperative system or what I would call a closed-loop system. Within this closed-loop environment a series of checks and balances performed by employees ensures that at each step of the way tasks are completed and results are reviewed and tested.