Innovation & Product Development

Improve the Product Development Process

Do you find yourself in this situation? Product Development teams in your organization are under pressure to bring products to market faster, to create products that are truly innovative, and literally out-think and out-smart the competition.  Yet products often fall short of expectations or miss the mark completely wasting significant time, effort and dollars.  Who's to blame?  Everyone from R&D to Marketing gets caught up in passing blame - each wheel in the hub believing that they are doing everything that can possibly be done.  Therefore, an environment of criticism and conflict is formed that slows the process of getting products to market and diminishes overall quality.

What we do: Many product development teams take for granted that a lot of time needs to be spent in meetings that are locked in conflict and are not very productive.  They believe this to be part of the complexity of the product development process.  However, this does not have to be so.  Our experienced team will show your group how to excel under pressure by providing tools that will create a systematic framework for team meetings.  Our system will help you effectively leverage the best thinking your group has to offer. Turning previously wasted time into a productive process designed to get innovative - high performing products to market faster. 

Case Study: Suzanne Wolfe, Human Resource Director, MDS SCIEX - "Six Hats systematically provides an opportunity for creativity in an environment that's free of the criticism and confrontation we used to see.  This means that everyone can collaborate and build on even the craziest of ideas to come up with creative solutions.  It's true, we had great results using Six Hats with QSTAR (an increase in efficiency of the development process by 40%), but the long-term impact is even greater.  We can repeat our success over and over because of these changed behaviors."

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