Product Development and Design Companies

 P&G's Connect and Develop website
 https://secure3.verticali.net/pg-connection-portal/ctx/noauth/PortalHome.do

OXO International (http://oxo.com)  
This site has a very interesting description of how a number of household products were redesigned by OXO, together with Smart Design Inc., and industrial design firm.

IDEO (http://www.ideo.com/ideo.htm)  

Interview with Tom Kelley of IDEO, on NPR's Fresh Air, February 8th 2001 (http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=02/08/2001)

Frog Design (http://frogdesign.com/)  

Design Continuum (http://www.dcontinuum.com/content/)  

Herbst Lazar Bell Inc. (http://www.hlb.com)  

Joss Design (http://www.jossdesign.com/) 

HP Management Decisions (http://www.hpmd.com/)  
Provides consulting on teams and product development, with some demo tools.

Leap Frog Innovations (http://www.teamdevelopment.com/profile.htm)  
Consulting firm that helps corporations in ideation/ innovation

E Media (http://www.emedia.com/)

Gravity Tank | Integrated Product Definition (http: //gravitytank.com/)    

Website of James Dyson, world renowned designer of the Dyson vacuum cleaner and many other products:  http://www.dyson.com/homepage.asp  

3M Story - A century of Innovation  http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Q9KzYsPDdaP018yizelNzQw0i_lcFQEABqk_Rc!

http://www.peerinsight.com/docs/Ruthless Focus on the Customer-Updated.pdf

Links to Chinese manufactures

http://www.amghk.com, Joe Law, Director, AMG Corp Ltd. Hong Kong