Measuring the productivity of product development is a complex and multi-faceted task, significantly different from manufacturing operations. Output from manufacturing is increasingly automated and ...

Deliverable-based metrics offer a product development team objective measures of project progress—and the focus needed to get the job done. David Warburton Many new product development programs fail ...

Human activity has caused precipitous increases in greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, resulting in a one degree warming of average global surface temperatures over the past century. As the planet ...

UN DESA’s Statistics Division plays a vital role in collecting and analyzing data from around the world. On 28 February – 2 March, the 43rd session of the Statistical Commission will consider issues ...