Product R & D Project Management, Applied Research,

Under the trend of economic globalization, competition between enterprises gets more and more severe. It becomes a common understanding among Chinese enterprises that the core competitive competence lays on the constantly extent investment on R&D process. However, the development of new products often come with some obvious shortages, such as high failure rate and high cost that the R&D process takes. With the aim of avoiding risks, improving profits, it is necessary to strengthen the effective management during R&D stage to ensure the new products being developed efficiently and effectively with outstanding performance.Products' R&D Project Management is a paralleled system, which is an advanced designing and manufacturing model that enterprise organize, manage and operate. Project Management controls the life cycle of new product's R&D process by meaning of monitoring the whole project's task allocation status and processing status, then coming out with the status report for analyzing the optimized solution for project completion. In this way, the status reports helps to find out the negative factors that obstruct project's completion and to make corresponding adjustment to ensure the project being on track; moreover, also shorten the development period of new products, improve the products' quality and reduce the product costs.The R&D of new products is a soft science, and many troubles rise during the project management process. After doing the research on company X's Product R&D Project Management and analyzing its management methods and process, it can be concluded that focusing on short-term objectives, difficult objective-setting, difficult authorization change, valid period of management and management outcome are the main factors that challenge the project management. Therefore, the solutions of optimizing below are composed .Optimizing solution I : Objective Management . When managing the product development project, following the instruction of Objective Management, it is important to set appropriate overall objectives, to set specific objectives and implementation focuses for each department during different project stages; moreover,...