Overview of our services

Some of our innovation management services are:

Management tools		Training and personal development
	Redesigning your new product process: Stage-Gate^®		In-house seminars and training
	Lean Product Development		Creativity and innovative climate
	Portfolio management
	ProBE^®: Benchmarking Product Development		Public seminars

Redesigning Your New Product Process: Stage-Gate^®
All work is a process, and any process can be managed to be more effective and efficient. Working closely with your innovation team and upper management, our consultants help you redesign your new-product development process from idea to launch using a Stage-Gate^® approach. The results are impressive: Fewer new product failures; improved focus and allocation of resources; faster development process and more successful new products.

Lean Product Development
Top performers have five times more productivity:

Do you have an idea-to-launch process in place?

Would you like to overhaul and streamline your process in order to ..
.. substantially increase your development productivity?

Benchmarking Product Development with ProBE^®
In these days of rapid innovation and tough competition, you can't afford to have a mediocre new-product development effort. Many leading companies are redesigning the way they conceive, develop and launch new products. But before you begin, you must understand what your current strengths and weaknesses are and what needs to be fixed. That's where ProBE is an essential tool - a first step in the redesigning process. ProBE evaluates your new product practices and performance and benchmarks this against 1500 other firms in our database, including the top 20% of firms. This is where the redesign process begins. (Return to top)

Portfolio Management
A vital question in the new product battleground is: How should a corporation most effectively invest its R&D resources? That's what portfolio management is all about - resource allocation to achieve corporate new-product objectives. Executives who win in the long run optimize their R&D investments by defining the right new product strategy for their firm, selecting the winning new-product projects, and ideally balancing their projects. Our consultants will meet with your senior people to discuss the various approaches to portfolio management and then help you choose, design and implement a model that is right for your needs. (Return to top)

New Product Seminars and Training
Our expert, experienced consultants have held numerous seminars around the world on "how to win at new products". Whether it's a two-hour motivational instructive talk at a company conference, of a full 2 or 3 day intensive program on effective new-product management, we have the experience, track-record and the materials. Custom training programs can also be designed (e.g. for the implementation phase of a redesigned new-product process). (Return to top)

Coaching Your New Product Project Teams:
Too many firms invest money in reengineering the process and establishing self-managed teams, only to discover that the teams "get derailed" - that new products still aren't developed as well or as quickly as they should. Dedicated, cross-functional new-product project teams are great in theory; what's missing is the coaching and mentoring of these newly formed new-product teams. Our consultants have worked with many firms and provided hands-on, expert coaching to guide teams through difficult phases of their projects towards successful launches. (Return to top)

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