Innovation & New Product Introduction
Being innovative in designing new products and services is the lifeblood of successful and sustainable businesses. Not every business can be the lowest cost producer, so building and protecting the best holistic customer experience is increasingly important to most European businesses as they respond to increasing competition from low cost economies across the world.
But investing in Innovation and New Product and Service Design is costly, time consuming, and requires discipline if you don’t want budgets and project plans to get out of control. We believe It is critical that your innovation process is both effective and efficient, particularly when being 6 months late to market can open the door for your competitors and wreck the forecast revenues and profits within any business plan…
CULTIVAR Consulting has years of experience in managing the delivery process behind successful product and service design and product introduction programmes across several industry sectors - from FMCG to Aerospace to Furniture... from Financial Services to Pharmaceuticals.
We work with our clients to audit their current approach, provide training in best practice methods e.g. PRINCE2 - or we can help develop an end-to-end solution that integrates a stage-gate process with leadership of the function, and a supporting organisational culture that fosters innovation but provides a disciplined approach.
We underpin our approach to managing the design and product introduction process with robust project and programme management tools that are designed to plan activities at the outset, yet highlight when things are going off-track, and introduce hazard control mechanisms that are appropriate to their level of severity.
We have strategic partnerships with leading Intellectual Property (IP) lawyers who can advise on the International Patent process.