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Why Lean?
You are at the right place if you want to be able to count on new products fueling your company's growth!
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Do you want to increase the percentage of your sales coming from new products?
- Set targets, measure success, and get real visibility to all the ideas in your new product portfolio.
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Do you find yourself working on products that don't support the corporate strategy?
- Organize an efficient selection process to ensure that product development efforts are
focused on a portfolio of new products that will maximize your company's growth and profits.
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Do you waste time and money working on the wrong products?
- Implement formal and visible, but simple, controls to monitor projects throughout the development
pipeline. Stimulate the winners and kill (not injure) the losers.
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Do your new products launch late, over budget, and off-specification?
- Implement a properly structured development process using carefully designed
phases,
exit gate criteria for each phase, project
management tools, cross functional teams, and
real-time collaboration.
- Do you find yourself constantly short of development resources? Do you find it difficult to be sure that you are allocating your resources to the most important products?
- Formalize your resource management. Make it real-time. Give the functional managers
clear information about future resource needs of the project teams.
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Do you integrate your customers and suppliers into the development process on a continuing basis, or do you and they get nasty surprises at the time of product launch?
- Make data and information available on a selective but real-time basis to those partners -
customers and suppliers - related to each new product development project.
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Do you feel overwhelmed by the task of improving your new product development process and
making the necessary cultural changes?
- Contact us to facilitate the changes.
See our Lean Product Development Roadmap for more details on the issues above.
See our Lean Product Development Services for ways we can show you how to establish a world-class product development activity in your company.
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