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NPD
Capability Maturity Assessments: Expert
analysis of and reporting to management on NPD practices,
processes, and methodologies. Our focus is on delineating
the best path forward for fast benefit gains. Includes
comparison / benchmarking against best-in-class, in-depth
interviewing, cross-organization surveying, process and
documentation evaluation, project tracking, behavior and
performance assessment, metrics evaluations, and statistical
portfolio analysis. Deliverables include current state
and gap analysis, as well as project plans detailing specific
tasks to quickly realize benefits from improvements to
NPD processes, practices and overall productivity. We
work diligently with management to craft a single,
workable plan for moving organizations forward.
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NPD
Process Implementation: Comprehensive
consulting, expert facilitation and one-on-one coaching
for implementing integrated and robust Stage-gate,
Front-end, Product Line Planning, Lifecycle Management,
and Portfolio and Pipeline Management processes. Adept
emphasizes "best practices in implementation"
coupled to “best practices in NPD process.” Our
focus is on rapid accrual of benefits through the best
design and deployment methods.
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Stage-Gate
Redesign and Streamlining: Evaluation and
redesign of an existing Stage-gate or phase gate type
process. Adept works to strengthens good elements of
existing process, improve weakness, and establish
improved, streamlined approaches. Throughout Stage-gate
Redesign engagements, Adept remains focused on helping
clients realize rapid accrual of desired benefits. Our
goal is to minimize process constraints and maximize
process gains.
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NPD
RiskAssessor(TM) Team Reviews: Expert
facilitation of NPD project teams using statistical
(based on the notable NewProd academic research) and
qualitative assessment of NPD projects. This in-depth
service drives teams to develop a common understanding
of both project risks and the specific actions needed to
mitigate the risks. Deliverables include a detail
analysis of a project, a specific path forward for the
project team, and a common understanding risks and
opportunities.
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NPD
Benchmarking Summit: Top managers and senior
executives interact with their peers from other
organizations, focused on specific topics in New
Product Development. This team-to-team, expertly facilitated work
session lasts three days and involves up to seven companies.
Each Benchmarking Summit cuts across specific issues related
to New Product Development productivity. Summits enable
top managers and their teams to interact directly with
their peers from non-competitive organizations, guided
by a world-class expert in NPD.
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NPD
Systems Support Assessment: Identifying NPD
system needs and constraints, crafting RFP's, fully evaluating
all product development and lifecycle management software
support systems, crafting a short term and a long term
systems deployment plan. This service helps speed the
evaluation of systems -- both local systems and
enterprise wide - and their match to both the needs and
the organization and the constraints oc the
organization. Adept brings a foundation of
Knowledge, insight, and experience to these assignments
so as to complement the internal knowledge of those
familiar with the organization's NPD activities.
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Portfolio
and Pipeline Analyses: A detail review of an
organization’s portfolio of new product development
projects and the assignment of project resources. Includes
review of strategic buckets, systems risks (statistical),
resource management, inter-project dependencies, pipeline
bottlenecks, metrics, views, data collection and storage,
and integration with other NPD processes and practices.
Deliverables include recommended near term “triage”
decisions and actions, as well as specific and detailed
practice improvement plans.
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Workout
Sessions for Improving New Product Development:
Purposeful, in-depth, facilitated dialogue among management
or product teams. Adept expertly facilitate these intensive
sessions to produce specific documents or output related
to strategy, NPD processes, or Product Innovation Charters.
Strategy-based surveys and one-on-one interviews often
precede sessions. Such sessions improve the
quality of the desired output and greatly accelerate its
creation.
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Customized
NPD Training: Creation and delivery of customized
programs for all levels of an organization. Specialized
in leadership and team-oriented just-in-time training,
specific to ongoing projects or processes.
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Expert
Sessions: Focused brainstorming session using
world-class, scientific, technical or marketing experts
recruited from outside the client organization. These
one to two day sessions tackle fundamental product development
challenges such as creating technical solutions, generating
meaningful concepts for potential development, finding
product applications to new technologies, or generating
and evaluating business models and strategies.
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Product
Development Briefings: Our briefings inform
R&D groups, marketing groups, top management and all
others touching the world of new product development the what's, why's and how's of different NPD practices. We place particular attention on the use and benefits of methods, as well as the pro's and con's of different approaches to deployment.
Depending upon the needs of the management team, briefings may last between one and four hours. In all cases, we tailor briefings to the specific audience.
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