Community Forum – How do you manage the use of prototyping and measure its success?

Resource Type
Survey (Community Forum)
Publish Date
03/27/2026
Author
Innovation Research Interchange
Topic
New Product Development
Associated Event
Publication

A: How do you manage the use of prototyping and measure its success?

Please find below the responses to this week’s IRI Community Forum Survey. Thank you to those who took the time to add their input! 

From an IRI member: We are looking to understand how companies are using prototypes successfully. We would love to hear what business impact of prototyping has been, what metrics you use to measure success, and how you work with prototyping partners.

Responses are below.

Community Responses

Other:

  • We make prototype tooling, tools, fixtures, gauges – we use prototypes constantly – Any time we need to learn something

Other:

  • If you learned something from the prototype you was successful, we have metrics on our projects, and our prototypes help us learn and compare concepts

Other:

  • IP Ownership