The Marketing and Operations Management joint concentration emphasizes the importance of partnership between marketing and operations for new product development (NPD) in light of the fact that NPD is a critical company effort highly dependent on internal innovation processes. Given the complexity of these processes, the insights provided by cross-disciplinary collaboration can be particularly beneficial in many efforts, including:
- Creativity-based new product development
- Innovation in service manufacturing and new service development
- Customer response to next-generation products
- The use of conjoint analysis in engineering designs
- Platform-owner market entry
- Design-intensive innovation

