This white paper by the American Productivity & Quality Center explains that the most successful new product development teams are ........., with representation from a core group of areas such as finance, marketing, manufacturing, design, engineering, and research.

An open communication environment enables team members to ......... ideas around the group, receive feedback more quickly, and facilitate brainstorming sessions.

Team membership is vital to the success of the group; ......... program managers to select those individuals they determine to be of the greatest value is a critical step.

In addition, teams are being given greater authority and held more ......... for the success or failure of the project.

The use of various team reward and recognition structures is mixed, with a trend toward more recognition as opposed to monetary ..........

Several best-practice companies have specific companywide awards for work "......... the call of duty".

In addition, the NPD process needs a "champion", who is ......... with monitoring and adjusting the process as new experiences, good or bad, present themselves.

The NPD process can be ......... into four general categories: idea generation, concept development, product and process design, and production and delivery.

One organization stores all ideas in a database and revisits them until they are ......... useless.

Once viable ideas are chosen, they must be further developed, examined, and ......... before the select few concepts proceed to full design.