Jose Campos and Jean-Claude Balland

Authors' Web site:
www.rapidinnovation.com

About the Authors

Jose Campos is the founder of Rapidinnovation, LLC, ― a Management Consulting firm. Rapidinnovation, LLC focuses on enabling technology companies bring successful products to market rapidly; through, improved customer input, effective technology marketing, practical product roadmaps and other methods and process for successful product development.

Jose brings more than twenty five years of experience in the area of new product development. With specific experience in Concurrent Engineering, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Total Quality Management (TQM), Concept Engineering (KJ), Program Management, Project Management, High Performance Organizations, ISO-9000 as well as other quality systems.

Jose has defined more than 25 major new high-technology products, plus numerous derivative products and product enhancements. His experience includes market identification, definition, verification, and rollout of new high technology products — around the world.

Jose is the author of Flexible Project Management for Product Development, Risk Management for Product Development and Debriefs and Postmortems for Product Development. Plus co-author of Project Management Toolbox, and The Voice of the Customer for Product Development.

Jean-Claude Balland is a high-technology marketing executive, consultant, professor, and lecturer with extensive experience in sales and marketing management in Europe, the United States, and Japan for technology products. Jean-Claude helps companies develop breakthrough offerings and strategies. He is an adjunct professor at OHSU School of Engineering and Computer Sciences and at Portland State University where he teaches Technology Marketing and other courses related to creating breakthrough products. Prior to his present occupation, Jean-Claude was Director of Internet Marketing at Mentor Graphics Corporation. He worked nineteen years at Tektronix, Inc. and left after several years as the Division Marketing Manager of a large and highly successful division.

Jean-Claude holds an EE from INSA, in Lyons, France and a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Lyons, France.

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