Product Development

Why and when new products

• Business improvement
  • Who should be responsible for initiating product development?
• Improving products
  • Is it easier to improve a product than create a new one?
• Creating new products
  • What are the dangers of new product development?

Management of new product development

• Sources of ideas
  • How do ideas arrive?
  • How can ideas be encouraged and guided?
  • What is the meaning of a useful idea?
• The Development Project
  
  • Who should be in a development team?
  • What are the duties of development team members?
• Preparation of new product prototypes
  • What equipment is needed for a test bakery?
  • Who should be the test baker?
  • Is a pilot plant a useful facility?
• Assessment of samples
  • How should product samples be presented and assessed?
  • What is a critical tasting test?
• Scale up to factory production
  • What should be considered in a scale up trial?

Nutritional calculations

• How may nutritional calculations be made and be useful for product development?