This document discusses product design and development. It outlines the typical new product development process and stages. It provides statistics on failure rates of new products introduced to the market in the 1970s-1990s, with about one-third failing to meet business objectives. Common causes of failure include small market size, lack of differentiation, poor positioning, forecasting errors, and lack of customer benefits. The document also discusses opportunities to enhance the new product development process through information acceleration, virtual prototyping, global teams, and pre-market testing using the Internet.