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New Product Development Department at Zorka jewellery factory

I have a been a Head of New Product Development Department at Zorka jewellery factory based in Minsk for 1 year I have been promoted to managerial position after I have worked as a product manager in the same company for 3 years I have been hired by a previous CEO of the company and during my promotion a new CEO of the company has been introduced Since the arrival of a new CEO all the procedures of communication has been changed Zorka company is a large organization 700 employees including head office and production and since arrival of a new CEO he made it strictly hierarchical organization with introduction of new top managers Decision making process has been changed dramatically and became very restricted As a head of new product development I have been responsible for launching new products My responsibilities included providing market research coming up with ideas for new collections liaising with a team of 2D and 3D designers finding the suppliers providing frameworks for promotion strategies to be implemented by a marketing team When I have been promoted new CEO started to bring his own people to the board Situation 2 I had a timeline to follow for launching products that has been approved one year before At one time I have been working towards launching of 3 new collections each has been on a different stage of production process For the first few weeks I have been working on a normal regime while the new team members with a CEO started to introduce new levels of decision making process new rules new detailed manuals that have to be followed at different stages I have tried to follow the following procedures but all processes took a long time 



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