Product Development & Management

Product Development & Management

Through our Product Development & Management services, we ensure our clients' product development processes operate efficiently and fire on all cylinders, tune their product organizations for maximum effectiveness, and evolve their culture to support their goals. Our experience as passionate product professionals, innovators and entrepreneurs allows us to meet our clients where they are, and then move them to where they need to be in a timeframe that works. If you are seeking assistance in accelerating speed to market, optimizing your product development process, tuning your product organization or evolving your culture, our team is ready to help. 

PROCESS

Product development is a key driver of corporate growth but sustaining success is never easy. As experienced product professionals, we know that accelerating new product development depends on being accurate about what you will deliver and excellent at delivering it. Whether you need to speed up your development cycle, tune your existing process or define a new one, our team will help you ensure your product development process is an accelerator and not a roadblock.

ORGANIZATION

Successful product organizations are characterized by the right functions, mapped to appropriate jobs, and staffed with exactly the right people configured into effective teams. To remain healthy, product organizations must be fluid and evolve over time in tandem with the product portfolio and corporate goals. Whether you need to assess your product organization, reorganize for growth or simply tune things up, we have a track record of leaving behind world class teams.

CULTURE

A steady pipeline of new products and services depends on a process that works and an organization that can use it, underscored by a culture of teamwork, transparency and trust. Our consultants inspire an entrepreneurial mindset and help our clients learn to embrace risk. If you need an objective read on whether your culture is fertile ground for innovation or has the expertise to evolve it, we can help.

Capacity Planning

Increasing your product development output often depends on increasing your capacity. We will examine your current capacity, identify operational precedents and dependencies, create a quantitative model of the same and provide tactics for ratcheting it up.

Innovation & New Product Development Culture

Innovation and new product development start with people. We will assess your culture against your innovation and new product development (NPD) objectives and design a plan that gets you to where you want to be. We will help you incorporate innovation into your company’s culture and build teams that improve your innovation track record.

Product Development Process Assessment

It is good practice to take a holistic look at your product development process at regular intervals to ensure it is firing on all cylinders. Whether you use gates or phases, waterfall or agile (or something in between), we will take a deep dive, exploring your process from end-to-end to establish if it is working for you. Our detailed assessments identify places for tweaks or redesign and include specific prescriptions and actionable plans to support those changes.

Product Management Support

As seasoned product professionals, we jump in and provide a skillful, extra pair of hands on your product team. We support you by doing anything a product manager would do – from market and competitive analysis to creating product plans to defining business and functional requirements – all in the spirit of accelerating key initiatives and improving bottom line performance when resources are tight.

Product Organization Design

To be effective over time, product organizations must be fluid and should evolve with your product or service portfolio. We take a hard look at the capabilities of your product organization in the context of your product development process, current product priorities and future business objectives. We will examine your organization at both macro and micro levels, mapping functions, jobs, roles and skills to provide a detailed assessment and specific recommendations where change is warranted.

Product Portfolio Management & Dashboards

Your portfolio should feature a balance of “net new,” “in service” and “end of life” products and services designed to achieve your revenue goals and corporate objectives. We establish an inventory, define management reports and metrics, and create visual views to help you ensure an optimal balance between initiating, maintaining or extending, and decommissioning activities.
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