2. Align With Strategy

Catalyst Management Consulting helps client organizations align product development efforts with strategy, including: 

Validate growth goals and articulate with metrics - As organizations realize that innovation is a key to growth, they need help in assuring realistic growth goals.  Catalyst can assure that the organization will buy into and support aggressive breakthrough innovation goals.  Catalyst can provide an effective process to determine metrics that encourage the right actions, including a "metrics shopping cart" and seven-step process for developing NPD metrics.

Portfolio management, the strategic framework for linking and aligning products to strategies and resource capabilities.

Co-Development is the emerging practice of organizations combing NPD resources and competencies to gain competitive advantage.  As a recognized leader for this topic, Catalyst serves as faculty for the PDMA-Management Roundtable conference on Co-Development.  Catalyst can support you with a simple analysis tool for evaluating fit with potential partners, as well as the supporting data on the differentiators between successful and unsuccessful co-development approaches.

Lean product development is the capability and capacity of the process to launch the right products quickly, without waste.

Leveraging technical competencies.  We can help you select strategies for design reviews and project status reporting.  Clients need the ability to focus people on milestones and deliverables, but you do not want to get them locked up in "administrivia."

Strategic agility is the organizational capability to sense and respond to threats and opportunities.  We can show you how to avoid firefighting and crisis management, or reverse the process.

Next stop on your guided tour of NPD Capabilities:  3. Process

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