Services

Educational:  We pride ourselves on being one of the first firms to develop and teach how to reduce time-to-market to executives.  Since 1989, our Fast Cycle Time courses have been used world-wide to intelligently improve time-to-market.  Through a combination of interactive discussion and case studies, we tailor each course to specific needs including:

  • Accelerating Product Development:  A 2 day comprehensive seminar to accelerate new product development
  • Driving Customer Experience into Your Business Decisions:  How to use customer experience measurement to drive business decisions
  • Recent project retrospectives:  We use a recently completely project to identify cycle time opportunities.
  • Portfolio metric development:  Using your current portfolio, participants define the most appropriate metrics for speed in your business
  • Product development team analysis:  We help your people assess the structure, capabilities and interaction requirements between teams and functions 

Companies that have used our educational services include:  Genzyme, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Controls, Northrop-Grumman, Abgenix, Applied Materials, Cisco, Texas Instruments, ALZA, Biosense Webster, Abbott Laboratories, Emerson Electric, Ford Motor Company, Sealed Air, Ericsson, Exxon-Mobil, Heineken, France Telecom, Nokia, John Deere, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent, Mercury Marine.

Consulting:  We can provide you with an individual consultant or a team.  Each choice has its advantages and limits which we'd be delighted to discuss.  

Fast Cycle Time:  Assessment (baselining/benchmarking), improvement strategies, implementation strategies and support.

Innovation:  Innovation audit using model.  Improvement strategies including identification of customer value, portfolio development, process improvement and education.

Strategy Development:  Using the Strategic Alignment model from Fast Cycle Time, our focus is to make strategy development and execution an ongoing part of business.  

Growth:  Opportunity assessment, acquisition assessment, portfolio definition, cultural assessments and leadership development.