| | | Contributors | | |
| | | Foreword | | |
| | | Preface | | |
| | | Acknowledgments | | |
| 1 | | Effective Communication by Tom Heyhoe | | 3 |
| 2 | | Focusing on the Participants: When and How to Involve Them by Herbert Weinstein | | 13 |
| 3 | | Managing the Product Development Process by Frank Kramer | | 21 |
| 4 | | Organizing Human Resources: By Project? By Discipline? As a Matrix? by Charles Beck | | 31 |
| 5 | | Product Life Cycle: Consumer Market Research by Herbert Weinstein | | 51 |
| 6 | | Shelf-Life Considerations and Techniques by Michele Perchonok | | 59 |
| 7 | | Product and Concept Testing - Methods and Cost Control by Tom Heyhoe | | 75 |
| 8 | | Case Study: Introducing a New Flavor and Color Ingredient by Catherine Side | | 95 |
| 9 | | Food Safety Systems: Anticipating Production and Integration into the Process by Richard F. Stier | | 103 |
| 10 | | Some Lesson Vignettes from Focus Groups and Other Market Research by Charles Beck | | 125 |
| 11 | | Equipment Integration in the Process: Patent Questions and Vendor Confidentiality by Frank Kramer | | 143 |
| 12 | | The Role of Food Packaging in Product Development by Aaron Brody | | 151 |
| 13 | | Contract Packaging or In-House Manufacturing? by Herbert Weinstein | | 171 |
| 14 | | Initial and Progressive Cost Estimates by Frank Kramer | | 179 |
| | | Index | | 189 |