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4.  Manage Pipeline

We help clients design and implement NPD Pipeline Management, including:

Governance structures like project offices and centers of excellence for leverage good practices in across the NPD process.  We can show you agile project management that creates engaged, empowered groups of individuals that can quickly execute organizational strategies.  Catalyst's support includes:
  • Techniques for project screening and prioritization
  • Techniques for project planning and execution
  • Techniques for product development and product launch

Developing operational strategies for project phasing - selection of rapid, evolutionary, or waterfall development models that support the product development strategy

Metrics that encourage the right actions.

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

Building cross functional project teams.  We can help you clarify authority issues so people know how and when to make decisions, and measure developmental maturity (with a simple questionnaire).

Selecting and applying Concurrent Engineering methods. We have familiarity with industry-specific practices such as Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA).

Developing and applying templates and knowledge reuse through documented procedures and repositories

Facilitating the application of Quality Function Deployment 

Next stop on your guided tour of NPD Capabilities:  5. Build Buy In

Other related Catalyst Management Consulting web pages:  Metrics,   Requirements, Voice of the customer,  NPD Experience

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