Chapter 2 – High-Level Overview of ExPD

What to Expect

This chapter provides a high-level overview of Exploratory PD® (ExPD), including a summary of the product development systems approach. Within the ExPD process, we provide an overview of its three major segments:

1. Strategy
2. Ideas & Selection
3. Explore & Create

We close this chapter with a discussion of ExPD’s most essential component: People.

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