3.  Process

Catalyst can help you develop or streamline your organization's concept-to-customer process (illustrated below).  We help develop the ideas and opportunities and screen them into the development pipeline.  What emerges are well targeted products that provide distinctive advantage.

Develop ideas and product concepts that provide competitive advantage and link to portfolio strategies.  Catalyst provides techniques for selection of best concepts for development and other techniques designed to improve the "fuzzy front end" of the development process.

Develop the optimal number of stages and gates and determine whether a flexible gating process is most appropriate for the client

Understand the tradeoffs needed to balance speed, product performance, and expenses

Fit project phasing strategies into each stage

Catalyst can help you develop a structured development process that assures the right opportunities receive the right priority, and are appropriately aligned with resources.  (This is also known as stages and gates.)  We can define and document existing processes and find opportunities for improvement.  Many of our clients have ISO-certified NPD processes.

Develop scorecards and metrics for improving the process

Run gating meetings crisply

Capture learning and create knowledge reuse

As there is no one best practice for product development process applicable to all firms,  Catalyst Management Consulting can help you examine the available options and select a method that best fits your business strategy.

Next stop on your guided tour:  4. Manage Pipeline

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

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