A standard Guadeloupe souvenir is a puffed-up, porcupine-spined puffer fish (poisson lane), which, if large enough, can become an offbeat lamp shade.
Many people like to buy a stuffed puffer fish as a souvenir that doubles as a lamp shade.
The commercial companies GAO visited achieved success in product development by first achieving a mature, stable design supported by completed engineering drawings during an integration phase and then by demonstrating that the product's design was reliable and critical manufacturing processes required to build it were in control before committing to full production.