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      Product Development

      Innovation is the cornerstone of sustained, profitable growth. We can help you strengthen your innovation muscle and achieve a step-change in product development effectiveness, engineering efficiency and R&D excellence. 

      Product Development
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      Your growth depends on the new products and services you bring to market. To do that effectively you need a well-managed innovation portfolio, the right R&D operating model, a systemic way to reduce costs and complexity, savvy risk management, and more.

      Our integrated approach to innovation and product development helps companies in many industries—including advanced manufacturing, energy and natural resources, consumer products, technology, and others—solve these and the many related challenges associated with developing innovative new products. 

      We can help you address four key priorities:

      1. What to Develop

        Build the innovation muscles you need for efficient product development based on informed decisions about your research portfolio, product roadmaps, sourcing options, and other key elements of engineering and product/platform strategy.

      2. How to Develop

        Transform your R&D function into a competitive weapon with optimized cycle times and lower costs. We can help you create a repeatable, fast and efficient product development model, determine the essential capabilities and talent resources you need, and identify and embed the right tools to accelerate your progress.

      3. Product Efficiency

        Adopt a more efficient approach to product design, one that meets customers’ expectations, lowers costs, reduces complexity, and satisfies your sustainability goals. Gain a clear view of product components and systems, prioritized by criticality.

      4. Large Program Execution

        High-priority programs that span multiple years can massively impact your competitiveness, becoming “too big to fail.” We can help you build the right foundation to manage large-scale projects, to avoid the delays and cost overruns that can severely hurt profitability over the product lifecycle.

      What to Expect

      What to Expect

      Innovation strategy

      Make the right choices about what to develop and how to blend inhouse and external sourcing options.

      Development efficiency

      Create a strong engineering organization that embraces best-in-class product development process marked by increased efficiency and speed.

      Sustainability

      Embrace a bold sustainability agenda that marries your innovation ambition to a vision of greener, more sustainable products and services.

      Scale effectiveness

      Address current pain points, adopt industry best practices, and develop a repeatable model for efficient, on-time large-scale program execution.

      Our Product Development Impact

      Our Product Development Impact

      10-30%

      Reduction in product costs

      10-15%

      Reduction in large-project headcount

      10-20%

      Increase in engineering efficiency

      Our Product Development Insights

      Advanced Manufacturing & Services
      Focusing R&D and Capex to Win
      With budgets strained by Covid-19, industrial companies that selectively cut and thoughtfully invest can accelerate out of the recovery.
      Brief
      Consumer Products
      Sustainability—Your Brand’s Next Cost-Saving Weapon
      By taking a sustainability lens, consumer goods companies are breathing new life into their products—and cutting costs.
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      Performance Improvement
      Finding the "X" Factor in Product Design
      Using a technique called design-to-X, companies can identify and prioritize the key elements of product design. Finding the X factor helps companies discover what customers truly value.
      Brief
      Advanced Manufacturing & Services
      The Engineering Talent Crunch: A Solution Is Closer than You Think
      Aerospace and defense companies have plenty of talent in-house but frequently miss opportunities to improve their teams’ effectiveness and efficiency.
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      A Closer Look

      Beyond the Teardown: A Strategy-Back Approach to Design-to-X

      A strategy-back approach is more holistic than traditional teardowns, considering the product's entire life cycle and aligning with the company's broader business goals.

      Our Product Development Consulting Experts

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      Jörg Gnamm Partner Munich

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      Peter Hanbury Partner San Francisco

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      Markus Bürgin Partner Munich

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      Bill Radzevych Partner Seattle

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      Allard Vegter Partner Amsterdam

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      Radhika Batra Partner Washington, DC

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      The Venture Ecosystem is a global team of change-makers and thought-leaders with deep experience in the start-up and venture-capital worlds. Our mission is to spark innovation between bold organizations and insurgents by activating our global network of disruptors and investors.

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      Software Development Excellence

      Aligning your product management and engineering organization with your firm’s vision and strategy is the surest route to sustained value creation.

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      Win today and in the future.

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      Full Potential Transformation

      Boldly alter your organization’s trajectory in pursuit of extraordinary results.

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      Working Capital Management

      Companies can free up significant cash by focusing on working capital, yet most struggle to make that happen. Our Net Working Capital Excellence program helps you quickly generate the cash you need to spur critical improvements to your business.

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      Your M&A strategy should be a logical extension of your growth strategy, and should be based on a disciplined and repeatable model that supports frequent, ever larger deals. 

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