Concrete is a mixture of aggregate, cement and water. The water combines with...
It is officially winter and it came early this year. For me, winter officially starts when I receive that first customer complaint of the season about set retardation. “Your product is causing my...
I’d like to share with you our recent experience at the Shanghai 2010 World Expo. In early September, Kryton was one of 20 companies to travel with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson to Shanghai on a...
Finally the day has come when our wonderful new product is launched into an eagerly anticipating marketplace! Well, maybe the marketplace is not quite as eagerly anticipating it as if the new product...
If you have been following along at home, you know that we have successfully progressed through the first 3 steps in our product development process: we came up with a great product idea; we built a...
Finally, we get to the fun part. In the first two steps, we talked about coming up with a new product idea and then building a business case in support of it. It’s a lot of market research and...
Last week we talked about the first step in developing a new product – coming up with a new product idea. Sometimes fun, often the most difficult and frequently a result of a customer expressing a...
Product Development in 5 Easy Steps
Ok, right off the top I’ll point out that the title of this week’s blog is supposed to be funny. In my experience, there is nothing easy about product development.
Where I work, we have a very long...
Concrete Sailboats
It is a typical sunny August day here on the West Coast of British Columbia. My wife Irene and I are sailing across Georgia Strait toward the San Juan Islands of Northern Washington state. There's...