Some Potential Options for Improving NPD Productivity

  • Designing and Deploying Product Line Planning and Strategy Processes

  • Designing and Deploying a Front-end process

  • Project Mix and Project Priority 

  • Optimizing Resource use schedules and Pipeline Throughput 

  • Deploying and Aligning Front-To-Back Process (including Stage-Gate, Front-end and Product Line Planning)

  • Measuring and managing the characteristics of NPD Projects (risk, complexity, scale) 

  • Training People Skills and Project Management Talents 

  • Redesigning Work and Organizational Structures 

  • Partnering Outside The Organization 

  • Designing and Deploying Voice of the Customer Processes

  • Establishing and Institutionalizing Performance Metrics and Views 

  • Acquiring, Customizing and Deploying Web-based Enterprise Systems Support of Process 

  • Acquiring, Customizing and Deploying Specific Tools and Support software 

  • Establishing Creativity processes
These improvement options are just some of the drivers of new product development productivity. Just which driver an organization should work on or invest in to improve NPD productivity, though, is a difficult decision. The drivers can interrelate significantly. 

The Adept Group has modeled these relationships to help organizations get their arms around the challenge. We've done this in what we call our NPD Productivity Assessment Model. Using the software model, we work with management to determine the best actions to improve NPD productivity, the best timing to conduct the improvement and the best way to carry it out.

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