CTM Guides

	Reducing the Risk of Failure in New Product Development The Centre for Technology Management (CTM) at the IfM has just published a new Practice Guide: 'Reducing the risk of failure in new product development: getting it right at the front end of innovation'. It provides insights and guidance for everyone involved in the innovation process so that they can avoid common pitfalls and improve their innovation pipelines.
	Communicating Technology Intelligence This Practice Guide examines some of the barriers to effective Technology Intelligence communication and explores the ways in which intelligence can be better communicated and hence transferred to decision-makers.
	T-Plan: the fast start to Technology Roadmapping A step-by-step guide to applying technology and product roadmapping techniques in your organisation using the minimum of resources.
	Technology Intelligence – Identifying threats and opportunities from new technologies Mortara L., Kerr, C.I.V., Phaal, R. Probert, D., IfM, Cambridge (2007), Series: Product and service innovation. This publication is being translated into Italian and Korean.
	Making the Business Case for Technologies: A five step process guide Dissel, M., C. Farrukh, L. Mortara., V. Thorne, (2009) Guidebook ISBN 978-1-902546-81-0 More information
	Speeding New Products to Market A practical workbook for achieving more successful new product development and introduction.
	Assessing and improving product design capability Explains how to assess product design capability through the use of a product and process audit.
	Managing product development collaborations It is intended for managers involved in product development, where some of the important design and development activities are performed by third parties.
	Technology Management Assessment Procedure (TMAP) Note: This book is no longer in print, however copies may be available from Amazon UK or Amazon US
	Make-or-Buy: a practical guide to industrial sourcing decisions More information
	Software Sourcing Checklist Hunt, Francis and Fraser, Peter (2005) The checklist is available for download in two versions: paper and software.