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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?
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Perspective Bowl Championship Series Rankings & New Product Development Scoring Systems, by Bill Poston
- A computer does not adequately account for heart and character.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Article Five Commandments for the Next Industry Leaders, by George Young
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- Article Innovating For The New Consumer Reality: Four Demands Food & Beverage Manufacturers Must Meet, by George Young
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Multimedia Lessons Learned: How to Innovate in a Down Economy
- Kalypso podcast: George Young discusses eight lessons learned for innovating in a downturn.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Multimedia How to Win with Collaborative Innovation - Panel Podcast
- Panel recording from Argyle Retail & Consumer Products Forum, September 30, 2009
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- Multimedia Video: The Kalypso Difference
- Kalypso is the world’s premier innovation consulting firm. Find out what makes us different.
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- 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.
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- 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.”
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- Perspective Viewpoint on BusinessWeek’s “Innovation Interrupted”, by Bill Poston
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- 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.
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- Brochure R&D Management Framework
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Multimedia Roadmapping - Linking Boardroom Strategy to Your Development Pipeline
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Brochure Kalypso Firm Overview
- Learn who we are and how we can help you.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Brochure Intellectual Property Services
- Intellectual Property services help companies develop and implement solutions that deliver significant and sustainable value from their IP portfolios.
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- Perspective Semiconductor Product Lifecycle Management, by Bill Poston and Joe Dury
- Kalypso researched 25 leading semiconductor companies to understand industry challenges and PLM adoption.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Article Improving Time to Market with Product Lifecycle Management
- Insights on deploying a best-in-class PLM implementation approach to improve time to market.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Brochure Leading Practices in Roadmapping
- Kalypso’s roadmapping services help clients implement effective roadmapping practices that improve strategic, market, technology, and product planning processes.
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- Case Study Innovation Diagnostic: Process and Specialty Chemical
- Innovation Diagnostic case study in the process and specialty chemical industry.
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- Case Study Product Leadership Case Study: Consumer Products Manufacturing
- Product leadership case study in the consumer products manufacturing business.
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- Case Study Pricing Model Case Study: Petroleum and Chemical
- Pricing model case study in the petroleum and chemical industry.
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- Case Study Pricing Strategy Case Study: Manufacturing
- Pricing strategy case study in the specialty chemical and manufacturing industry.
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- Case Study PLM Strategy Case Study: Consumer Business
- PLM strategy, systems selection and implementation case study in the consumer business industry.
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- Case Study Portfolio Management Case Study: Telecommunications
- Portfolio management case study in the telecommunications industry.
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- 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.
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- Case Study Procurement Training Case Study: Pharmaceutical
- Procurement training case study in the pharmaceutical industry.
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- Case Study Innovation Framework Implementation Case Study: Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Innovation framework implementation case study in the healthcare and life sciences industry.
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- Case Study Roadmapping Case Study: Manufacturing
- Roadmapping case study in the manufacturing industry.
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- Case Study Technology Commercialization Case Study: High Tech
- Technology and IP commercialization case study in the high tech industry.
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- Brochure Evolve Framework for PTC Windchill
- Kalypso’s Evolve Framework for PTC Windchill is comprised of four stages to help companies to evolve PLM.
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- Brochure Evolve with PTC Windchill
- Top 10 Truly Transformational Objectives for evolving strategically with PTC Windchill PLM solutions.
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- 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.
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