Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Key concepts -- Product creation leadership: delivering business results -- Product idea generation: sensing customer needs and market opportunities -- Technology capabilities: separating invention and execution -- Product creation process design: leveraging discipline and judgment -- The competitive product portfolio: integrating process and product architecture -- People and project management: inspiring and leading the workforce -- Innovation partnerships: connecting the extended enterprise -- Part II: Case studies -- Walt Disney Imagineering: stories of the impossible -- Mars Incorporated: consumer-driven innovation -- Whirlpool Corporation: building a global product creation capability -- United Technologies Corporation: discipline and balance in innovation -- IBM: leveraging customer focus, research, and collaboration.