New Product Development and Introduction
Economic challenges, intense competition, and shorter product lifecycles narrow the window of opportunity to successfully bring new products to market. With little room for error, the pressure is on to maximize return on R&D investment and increase growth rates more than ever before.
With many organizations fighting to consistently meet their product development effectiveness objectives for time, cost, and quality, they will need to fire on all cylinders if they want to beat competitors to market.
Though often quoted, the statistics are true - the best performing companies grow twice as fast and have double the margins. To meet product development objectives while hitting growth targets, these top performers utilize new product development execution as a source of competitive advantage. And, they must execute flawlessly to remain at the front of the pack.
Using proven innovation and product development best practices to benchmark, at Kalypso we work with clients to identify gaps in current practices to identify the systematic and organizational changes needed to achieve step function capability improvement. Our team has the expertise to help clients become more aligned, collaborative, and competitive in their product development processes.
Specific areas of our New Product Development and Introduction practice include:
- Requirements Generation
- Program Management and Project Execution
- Interim Management & Critical Project Recovery Services
- Project Governance & Decision Making
- Collaborative Development
- Pipeline Rationalization
- Technology Development
- Product Launch Strategy, Planning, and Execution
- IP Management
- Product Data Management
- Design Methodology Implementation & Training
- Product Development Maturity Assessment
Kalypso is focused on helping our clients realize optimal product development performance and transform the enterprise to sustain real, lasting results. Whether accelerating product introductions, increasing time to revenue, implementing technologies, or enabling better informed product decisions throughout the lifecycle, our team has the implementation experience necessary to drive transformation.
Our team has helped clients achieve development cycle time improvement of over 40 percent, two-fold improvement in return on R&D investment, and development pipeline throughput of over 60 percent.
Related service offerings include:
- Program Management and Project Execution
- Execute programs and projects flawlessly to support mission-critical strategic and corporate initiatives.
- Interim Management & Critical Project Recovery
- Effectively get complex programs that are critical to your operation back on track with a trusted team of advisors.
- Project Governance & Decision Making
- Structure governance and decision making processes to achieve clarity around the “who, what, when and how.”
- Product Launch Strategy, Planning, and Execution
- Execute on all elements of the launch process, including message development, pricing, communications and promotion strategy, channel strategy, sales support, and strategic account development.
- IP Strategy & Management
- Understand, manage, protect and leverage IP portfolio by developing an IP strategy that supports the business strategy.
- Voice of the Consumer/Customer
- Capture consumer and customer insights and translate them into user needs, product requirements and product specifications to drive successful new product development.
- Product Leadership Transformation
- Transform product development to achieve product superiority by delivering innovative products that meet ever-evolving customer needs.
- R&D Management Framework
- Improve return on R&D investment, identify improvement areas and manage R&D as a business.