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Industry Partners
Modern product development (PD) is fiercely competitive, complex, and driven by advances in information technology. Successful PD firms know that internal R&D can be dramatically enhanced by expertise from leading research universities. As an MIT research center, CIPD has collaborated with dozens of national and international organizations—academic, industrial, and governmental—to bring PD knowledge into practice. We specialize in complex systems, and focus on custom-built projects designed to solve sponsor-defined problems. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has provided breakthrough research for well over a century. |
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The Institute’s celebrated School of Engineering has developed scientific theory and practical applications that have revolutionized the state of the art. Likewise, MIT’s Sloan School of Management has emerged as the world’s premier science-based business school, applying quantitative methods to organizational management. Award-winning faculty from both schools have joined CIPD to pursue advanced research into product development management and practice. Headquartered at the MIT campus, CIPD is ideally positioned to harvest the latest PD innovations.
Our structured research concentrates on problems specific to individual CIPD sponsors. Whether for large established companies or smaller startups, CIPD provides rigorous programs that tackle a company’s most pressing PD concerns. After helping a firm to articulate a research problem, we define an agenda and provide the know-how necessary to generate solutions.
In tandem with our custom programs, we offer a portfolio of signature projects that have benefited sponsors from all sectors of industry.
- Our DOME initiative streamlines complex product modeling by seamlessly integrating the efforts of hundreds of developers—even if they work on radically different platforms and in widely dispersed locations.
- Our Virtual Customer initiative exploits on-line data collection methods to let product developers create systems at virtually the same time that they gather customer input.
- Our Information Flow Modeling initiative distills intricate PD systems into their essential components, providing visual maps through domains of increasing complexity.
Investigating the length and breadth of PD processes—from product
concept to market launch and beyond—CIPD brings focused research
to industrial practice, helping to redefine a company’s approach
to product development.
