New Product Development

Representative Assignments

• Help an international flavor house develop team management skills needed to implement a new product development process.
• Develop metrics for a major consumer products company for assessing the effectiveness of their new product efforts.
• Design guidelines for reviewing project portfolios for a global manufacturing firm that allowed them to successfully balance longer term and shorter development efforts.
• Facilitate product planning meetings for a materials firm directed at clarifying the "fuzzy front end" of the development process. 
• Apply the NOMMAR® review process to provide clear business justifications for innovative proposals lacking clear sales and cost numbers.
• Conduct management training for project leaders for a computer firm dealing with issues such as conflict resolution, decision making, and motivation.
• Present executive seminars and workshops on new product development topics such as phased project review systems, review metrics, portfolio balancing, and project teams.