Dr Colin Mynott is a Chartered Engineer, a European Engineer, and a past Fellow of the Institute of Directors. He has extensive hands-on experience of manufacturing systems and of developing products, from devising strategy through to manufacturing engineering and start-up. He formed his present company in 1994 to disseminate best practice to industry on all aspects of product development, how it should be organised, its financial impact and management. He is joint author of a number of publications on product development, continuously researches best practice, and runs workshops, seminars and conferences on the subject.