Notice of RetractionStrategic management of product development process capability using neural network approach

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New product development (NPD) is considered to be one of the best strategies to handle the rapid changes that occur in the market for a product, in order to sustain competitive position. Though some researchers attempt to study factors that affect the capability of NPD by a firm; none of them tried to quantify them. Quantification of the factors is essential in order to achieve adequate control over the product development activities. In this paper, a neural network based methodology is developed in MATLAB code to quantify the NPD capability. This may help a firm to develop a selected set of capabilities into core competences in long run. The networks are used at two stages and the output of the neural network model at stage-2 is the quantified value of NPD capability. A feed forward network with one hidden layer is used for both stages. For case study, data is taken from the literature. The data is available over a selected time span and neural network is trained, tested and validated for the available data.