Tag: Product Development

  • Visualisation: Part 2

    The Client Perspective What you see depends on which direction you are looking from.   If you count from the top, there are 10 bars. But there are only 7 bars when you count from the bottom. In this case it is an optical illusion based on how the drawing…

  • Engineers in Business

    Ideas Worth Pursuing   BRW recently ran an article by Matt Barrie on business ideas that are worth pursuing. If you haven’t heard of Matt Barrie, he founded Freelancer. In the article he wrote about business ideas that interest him, and what doesn’t interest him. In particular he had a…

  • Software versus Hardware

    Electronics Hardware The idea for this post came from an interesting article by Bryan Murdoch who also writes a blog on technology topics. In the article he looked at why some developers can be Averse To Change and made some interesting observations about why that is so. One of those…

  • Improving Product Development Outcomes

    In this post we will look at the Product Development Process and how to get improved outcomes. But first here is a fun graphic made from our logo. Product Development Process The Product Development Process is intended to reliably deliver new products for manufacture or distribution. This is a critical…

  • Successful Electronics Needs a Successful Name

    Electronics Development and Success Hello again,   A couple of posts ago in Electronics Manufacture Shines in Melbourne I said I would explain the origins of our company name. Many have suggested that Successful Endeavours sounds more like a personal coaching enterprise or a business that handles products by people…

  • Electronics Manufacture Shines in Melbourne

    National recognition for local Casey Business OK, I couldn’t resist that blog title or this headline. It isn’t often you get a chance to say something like that. If you hadn’t heard yet, we are finalists in two categories in the EDN Innovation Awards for 2009. Melbourne is the Electronics…

  • Reducing Electronics and Embedded Software Product Development Costs

    First some basic statistics that made me think about this issue a bit more: Software typically consumes 80% of the development budget. Digital Avionics Handbook and Embedded.com 80% of software projects are unsuccessful IBM   So working from the Pareto Principle it is clear that product development success and cost…

  • Niche Electronics Manufacture – Ideally Done in Australia

    So what is Niche Electronics Manufacture about? Well, Niche implies it is aimed at a small and specific market segment rather than a large and universal segment. Some examples might help here: specialist medical devices or patient sample handling equipment Very Early Smoke Detecting Apparatus in wall cable tracing equipment…

  • Project Priorities Perspective – Time and Cost versus Performance

    This continues our review of the Project Priorities Perspective. See the Project Priorities Perspective post for the concept behind this and Time and Performance versus Cost for a look at those trade-offs.   Here is a visual view of this set of trade-offs:   Reducing performance can decrease cost and…