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At Kalypso, we believe that the free exchange of innovative ideas and perspectives allows us to refine our concepts and improves our ability to serve our clients. We continuously develop thoughtware by researching and developing leading-edge ideas in innovation. This is one way that we deliver on the promise of innovation.

Kalypso practitioners regularly speak at events, lead webinars, author whitepapers, and publish articles in newspapers and professional journals containing their opinions, ideas and analyses of the latest trends in business.

Perspective Now That Your Product Portfolio Management Implementation is Complete, Where is the ROI?
Many of us have experienced the trials and tribulations of project and portfolio management (PPM) process and technology implementations in new product development.  Finally completing an implementation after the business case justification, executive alignment, software acquisition, design, testing, training and data loading can be somewhat anti-climactic.

Tags: Business Case, Implementation, Portfolio Management, PPM, PPM software, Project Portfolio Management, ROI, Software Implementation
Multimedia Podcast: Re-ignite the Innovation Engine
Kalypso podcast: Ken Parekh discusses the importance of focusing first on people to drive innovation in a post-recession environment.

Tags: Innovation, Innovation Culture, Innovation Engine, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Teams, Ken Parekh, Leadership, Organizational Alignment, People, Podcast, Resource Management, Resources
Article A Sweet Solution: Sugar Foods Sweetens New Product Launch Processes, by CGT Magazine
Sugar Foods optimizes processes for product introduction, formulation control, and risk mitigation.

Tags: Agile, Compliance, F&B, Food and Beverage, Formulation Control, New Product Development, New Product Introduction, NPD, Oracle, PLM, PLM for Process, Product Development, Product Launch, Product Lifecycle Management, Risk Mitigation, Spec Management, Sugar Foods, Traceability
Article The Private Brand Revolution: The Manufacturers’ Playbook to Drive Brand Demand, by George Young
As retailers continue expanding their private brand strategies, here are five strategies food and beverage manufacturers should consider adding to their playbooks to drive demand for their brands.

Tags: Brand Strategies, Collaborative Innovation, Disruptive Innovation, F&B, Food and Beverage, George Young, Innovation, Manufacturing, Own Label, Pricing, Private Brands, Private Label, Retail, Retailers, Value, Value Management
Perspective Bowl Championship Series Rankings & New Product Development Scoring Systems, by Bill Poston
A computer does not adequately account for heart and character.

Tags: Bill Poston, Innovation, New Product Development, NPD, Pipeline Management, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Prioritization, Portfolio Rationalization, PPM, Project Selection, Scoring Systems
Article Innovating for the New Reality: 5 Strategies to Grow & Have Fun Again, by Bill Poston
Question your entire business model—sell your product as a service, change your delivery model, tie your price to customer value.

Tags: Bill Poston, IndustryWeek, Innovation, Manufacturing, Recession, Strategy
Perspective Increased Regulatory Compliance in CPG: 4 Reasons Why Industry Leaders Aren’t Losing Sleep, by Max Cochet
Many companies in CPG and other highly regulated industries are experiencing increased regulatory scrutiny. This viewpoint discusses four best practices of industry leaders for managing changing regulations.

Tags: Compliance, Consumer goods, Consumer products, CPG, F&B, Food and beverage, PLM, Product lifecycle management, Product recalls, Regulatory compliance
Multimedia Podcast: Fuel Innovation With Disciplined Value Capture, by Brian Sharp
Kalypso podcast: Brian Sharp discusses challenges that prevent companies from capturing full profit potential of products and services and what processes are needed to drive value capture.

Tags: Brian Sharp, Innovation, Pricing, Profit leakage, Profit potential, Value capture, Value creation, Value management
Perspective Before You Partner With Others, Get Your Own House In Order, by Mick Broekhof
Many CPG companies are jumping into the hot field of external collaboration. In this article, we examine why that frequently fails and what companies should consider before aligning with a partner.

Tags: Collaborative Innovation, Consumer Goods, Consumer Products, CPG, Mick Broekhof, Retail
Article Five Commandments for the Next Industry Leaders, by George Young

Tags: Breakthrough Innovation, CPG, Food and Beverage, George Young, Innovation, Interactive Labeling, Label Claims, Manufacturing, Product Development, Product Sourcing, Traceability
Article Innovating For The New Consumer Reality: Four Demands Food & Beverage Manufacturers Must Meet, by George Young

Tags: CPG, F&B, Food and Beverage, PLM, PLM Implementation, Private Brands, Private Label, Retail, Store Brands, Value Management
Brochure PLM Vivo for Retail
Kalypso’s rapid implementation for the Retail industry, enabling companies to reduce the time, investment, and effort to deploy PLM.

Tags: Agile, Collaborative innovation, Implementation, Innovation, Oracle, Own Brands, PLM, PLM Vivo, Private Brands, Product lifecycle management, Retail, Store Brands
Perspective Re-igniting the Innovation Engine: Renew the Focus on People, by Ken Parekh
This article discusses the significance of developing an organization’s leadership and people to execute the strategy, process, and technology of innovation.

Tags: Innovation, Innovation Leadership, Leadership, Learning
Multimedia Lessons Learned: How to Innovate in a Down Economy
Kalypso podcast: George Young discusses eight lessons learned for innovating in a downturn.

Tags: Downturn, George Young, Innovation, Podcast, Product Development, Product Portfolio, Program Office
Perspective Fuel Innovation with Disciplined Value Capture
This paper discusses the linkage of value capture to product innovation and how to ensure the full profit potential is achieved for each incremental improvement or enhancement in a product.

Tags: Brian Sharp, Greg Adkins, High Tech, Innovation, Pricing, Value Capture, Value Management
Perspective Best Practices in Collaborative Innovation: How CPG Manufacturers & Retailers Can Partner for Profit, by Mike Friedman and Helayne Angelus
Kalypso conducted a research study with thirty global consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, and brokers to better understand how manufacturers and retailers are working together to drive profitability and deliver innovative products.

Tags: Collaborative Innovation, CPG, Innovation, Innovation Strategy, Open Innovation, Retail
Multimedia How to Win with Collaborative Innovation - Panel Podcast
Panel recording from Argyle Retail & Consumer Products Forum, September 30, 2009

Tags: collaborative innovation, CPG, innovation, open innovation, retail
Brochure Evolve Framework for Dassault Systemes ENOVIA
Kalypso’s Evolve Framework for Dassault Systemes ENOVIA is comprised of four stages to help companies to evolve and upgrade PLM.

Tags: Dassault Systemes, ENOVIA, Evolve, PLM, upgrade
Brochure Collaborative Innovation in CPG
Collaborative innovation is an open innovation strategy that enables consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers and retailers to partner for profit and provide shoppers and consumers with more innovative offerings.

Tags: Collaborative Innovation, CPG, Innovation, Innovation Strategy, Open Innovation, Retail
Perspective CPG Product Development Processes in the 21st Century: PLM Emerges as a Key Innovation Driver, by Chip Perry and Max Cochet
Chip Perry and Max Cochet penned this chapter for the new book Integrated Approach to New Food Product Development (CRC Press, 2009).

Tags: CPG, Food and Beverage, PLM, Product Development, Traceability
Multimedia Video: The Kalypso Difference
Kalypso is the world’s premier innovation consulting firm. Find out what makes us different.

Tags: Company Information
Brochure PLM Vivo for Food and Beverage
Kalypso’s rapid implementation for the Food & Beverage industry, enabling companies to reduce the time, investment, and effort to deploy PLM by up to 66 percent.

Tags: Food and Beverage, PLM, PLM Implementation, PLM Vivo
Perspective Complexity Management Webcast: Drive Cost Savings to Fund the Future
This presentation was given by Scott Gamble and Brian Sharp during the webcast “Drive Cost Savings to Fund the Future with Complexity Management.”

Tags: Complexity Management, Cost Reduction, Portfolio Management, Product Rationalization
Perspective Viewpoint on BusinessWeek’s “Innovation Interrupted”, by Bill Poston

Tags: Innovation
Multimedia Drive NPD Pipeline Cleanout with Value Management
Learn tools, techniques and methods for assessing and validating the commercial value of projects in the new product development pipeline, featuring real-world case examples.

Tags: Product Development, Value Management
Brochure R&D Management Framework
Kalypso's R&D Management Framework provides concrete steps to improve return on R&D investment, identify improvement areas and develop appropriate solutions needed to deliver on the promise of innovation as well as on the demands of today.

Tags: R&D, Strategy
Brochure Complexity Management
Kalypso’s Complexity Management methodology can help your company deliver sustainable profitability growth today and provide the fuel for your future innovation growth.

Tags: Complexity Management
Perspective Improving Traceability in CPG with PLM
PLM for CPG companies is maturing to help manufacturers guarantee compliance and allow traceability back and forward from any lifecycle state of a product, ingredient or process from concept to commercially-available product.

Tags: Compliance, CPG, PLM, Traceability
Brochure Product Leadership Transformation
Product Leadership transforms your organization and product development approach to achieve product superiority by delivering innovative products that meet ever-evolving customer needs.

Tags: Product Leadership
Brochure Pricing and Value Management
Kalypso’s Pricing and Value Management methodology is designed to help you develop and implement a strategy to attain pricing excellence, effective transaction management, and profitable value management.

Tags: Pricing, Value Management
Article Speed to Market or FDA Compliance? It Must Be Both
Medical device manufacturing companies don’t have the luxury of being able to choose between either focusing on speed to market or FDA compliance. Rather, they must address both equally. Balancing product development effectiveness with regulatory compliance is yet another strategy on the road to success. This article provides tips on how this can best be accomplished.

Tags: Compliance, Medical Device, Product Development, TTM
Multimedia Roadmapping - Linking Boardroom Strategy to Your Development Pipeline

Tags: Roadmapping, Roadmapping Pipeline, Strategy
Brochure Idea Management
Kalypso conducted a global side-by-side comparison study and developed a successful approach to help clients select the right Idea Management information system to meet their unique requirements.

Tags: Idea Management, Innovation
Perspective Beyond Compliance: Medical Device Product Development, by Noel Sobelman
Kalypso recently completed research to explore how leading medical device companies - from startups to multibillion dollar enterprises - are balancing new product development with compliance requirements.

Tags: Compliance, Decision Making, Innovation, Medical Device, Product Development, Project Governance
Brochure PLM Strategy
Kalypso’s PLM Strategy offering leverages a proprietary PLM Capabilities Framework to accelerate the process of defining your strategy, increasing project success, and achieving optimal implementation results.

Tags: PLM, PLM Strategy
Brochure Evolve Framework
The Evolve Framework assists PLM clients with the evolution of their PLM processes and systems. Applying this framework, companies will be able to anticipate needs and learn from the experience of others.

Tags: PLM, PLM Implementation
Brochure Rapid Results
The Rapid Results methodology helps you accelerate decision-making and business results by making sure that you start off on the right foot, and chart the most efficient path to your goals.

Tags: PLM, PLM Implementation, PLM Strategy
Brochure Kalypso Firm Overview
Learn who we are and how we can help you.

Tags: Company Information
Perspective Advanced Information Access: The Application of Search and Analytics in Product Development, by J. Justin Manford
Kalypso conducted interviews and independent research to understand how advanced information access technologies can drive increasingly efficient innovation.

Tags: Advanced Information Access
Article Competing with the Truth: Master Data Management in Discrete Manufacturing
This article discusses major business hurdles created by redundant and inconsistent data in discrete manufacturing, and outlining new tools, techniques and governing principles that are emerging to address the issue.

Tags: Discrete, Manufacturing, Master Data Management
Perspective PLM Transformation in CPG
CPG companies are showing growing interest in the results achieved with PLM, due to industry factors and recognition of the significant gains attained in the high tech, aerospace and automotive industries.

Tags: CPG, PLM
Brochure Intellectual Property Services
Intellectual Property services help companies develop and implement solutions that deliver significant and sustainable value from their IP portfolios.

Tags: Intellectual Property, IP
Perspective Semiconductor Product Lifecycle Management, by Bill Poston and Joe Dury
Kalypso researched 25 leading semiconductor companies to understand industry challenges and PLM adoption.

Tags: High Tech, PLM, Semiconductor
Article Driving Sustainable Innovation with High Performance Teams
While innovation has become a mantra for delivering growth, the challenge lies in achieving and sustaining innovation to realize year-in and year-out success. This article describes a critical component this achieving this success - your people.

Tags: Innovation, Resources, Teams
Article Why Your Intellectual Property Isn’t Generating Cash Flow, by Bill Poston
This article featured in PDMA Visions Magazine provides a process for assessing the value of these assets and unlocking their value.

Tags: Intellectual Property, IP
Perspective Your Approach to Training Can Be the Difference: 5 Effective Ways to Deliver Real PLM Results
Taking the right approach to training on PLM concepts and roles by developing a sustainable training program can help you achieve a successful PLM implementation.

Tags: Learning, PLM, Training
Article Improving Time to Market with Product Lifecycle Management
Insights on deploying a best-in-class PLM implementation approach to improve time to market.

Tags: PLM, TTM
Perspective Piloting Your Way to PLM Profits: Engage the Organization or Run the Risk of Failure
Execute a pilot that engages your organization and delivers real PLM results.

Tags: PLM
Perspective Product Lifecycle Management Transformation: The Journey to Best-in-Class Product Development
Best practices and the multi-step process of developing a comprehensive PLM Strategy and preparing your organization for the journey.

Tags: PLM, PLM Strategy
Brochure Leading Practices in Roadmapping
Kalypso’s roadmapping services help clients implement effective roadmapping practices that improve strategic, market, technology, and product planning processes.

Tags: Roadmapping, Strategy
Case Study Innovation Diagnostic: Process and Specialty Chemical
Innovation Diagnostic case study in the process and specialty chemical industry.

Tags: Innovation, Manufacturing
Case Study Product Leadership Case Study: Consumer Products Manufacturing
Product leadership case study in the consumer products manufacturing business.

Tags: CPG, Product Leadership
Case Study Pricing Model Case Study: Petroleum and Chemical
Pricing model case study in the petroleum and chemical industry.

Tags: Energy, Pricing
Case Study Pricing Strategy Case Study: Manufacturing
Pricing strategy case study in the specialty chemical and manufacturing industry.

Tags: Manufacturing, Pricing, Value Management
Case Study PLM Strategy Case Study: Consumer Business
PLM strategy, systems selection and implementation case study in the consumer business industry.

Tags: CPG, PLM, PLM Implementation, PLM Strategy
Case Study Portfolio Management Case Study: Telecommunications
Portfolio management case study in the telecommunications industry.

Tags: Portfolio Management, Telecom
Case Study IP Services Case Study: Healthcare and Medical Device
IP portfolio screening and market assessment case study in the healthcare and medical device industry.

Tags: Healthcare, Intellectual Property, IP, Medical Device
Case Study Procurement Training Case Study: Pharmaceutical
Procurement training case study in the pharmaceutical industry.

Tags: Learning, Pharma, Training
Case Study Innovation Framework Implementation Case Study: Healthcare and Life Sciences
Innovation framework implementation case study in the healthcare and life sciences industry.

Tags: Healthcare, Innovation, Life Sciences
Case Study Roadmapping Case Study: Manufacturing
Roadmapping case study in the manufacturing industry.

Tags: Manufacturing, Roadmapping, Strategy
Case Study Technology Commercialization Case Study: High Tech
Technology and IP commercialization case study in the high tech industry.

Tags: Commercialization, High Tech, Intellectual Property, IP
Brochure Evolve Framework for PTC Windchill
Kalypso’s Evolve Framework for PTC Windchill is comprised of four stages to help companies to evolve PLM.

Tags: PLM, PLM Implementation, PTC
Brochure Evolve with PTC Windchill
Top 10 Truly Transformational Objectives for evolving strategically with PTC Windchill PLM solutions.

Tags: PLM, PTC
Perspective Thinking Strategically About PLM: Top 10 Transformational Objectives
Several examples from recent Kalypso client engagements highlight practices that are fundamentally changing the way companies bring products to market. Here are the top 10 Transformational PLM Objectives for you to consider as you plan your PLM program.

Tags: PLM