New Product Development Transformations: How to Begin

The decision to dramatically improve your organization's new product development is a significant one, requiring substantial commitments of time, resources and personal investment from the organization's leadership.

This is an area where a little bit of investment in up-front advice from a person who's "been there, done that" can save your organization a lot of time, frustration and effort while delivering more rapid results.

We have several ways to maximize your return on investment by leveraging our knowledge and practical experience.

Engaging with Us

We offer levels of engagement ranging from 1:1 mentoring and coaching through extensive engagements to support a product development transformation:

• Mentoring: Gain access to our expertise via phone and email for rapid response to your questions.
• Coaching: Focused 1:1 work to help you create value-centered objectives, develop plans, build sponsorship and gain commitment for product development improvement programs, delivered with a customized blend of face to face and virtual interaction.
• Speaking: Introduce your group to the latest thinking in new product development by hosting Katherine for face-to-face or virtual presentations.
• Training: Leverage the highly successful training courses we have developed to support teams in learning new ways of doing product development.
• Consulting: Engage us to help you develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for dramatically improving product development performance.

Independent Exploration and Learning

If you want to spend some time learning on your own before bringing in someone to help, we have selected some resources to get your journey off to a good start.

Our Recommended Reading List is a selection of books and articles that contain today's best thinking on product development.

The New Product Development Resource Center has a growing number of resources available for New Product Development transformation teams. It has links to all of our current publications and many of the materials we use with our clients. This part of the site changes weekly, so check back often for updates.

For Katherine's latest insights into product development transformation, subscribe to the New Product Development Field Notes, a blog sharing her observations about product development best practices.

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