NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION

An organization’s new product development process and innovation lifecycle is a key focus area for many consumer products executives.  Strong and decisive consumers are putting the pressure on retailers and manufacturers to deliver customized, innovative, and valuable new products to market quickly. Consumer products leaders must be able to manage their product data, shorten their new product lifecycle, and produce innovative products to drive growth.

Clarkston Consulting has built a comprehensive solution for New Product Development and Innovation to help any consumer products company improve their innovation pipeline and processes based on their own unique set of challenges to address the needs of their customers and consumers.

The New Product Development and Innovation Program Management solution is designed to help companies manage complex programs, incorporate new products in the existing business units, and create new business areas. This solution helps companies establish a cross-functional approach to making decisions, managing resources, establishing new relationships and/or an open innovation model, and achieving launch dates.

Clarkston Consulting’s Product Lifecycle Management solution is designed to help companies streamline and improve flow of product information, assure product conformance with regulatory standards, create a PLM strategy that is actionable, and work towards one version of the truth within the organization.  Our service would help our consumer products clients build a compelling case to improve their process. We also have the ability to manage all aspects – people, process, and technology – for the implementation of a technology solution to support product lifecycle management.  

For companies looking to improve their New Product Development and Commercialization processes, Clarkston offers a comprehensive methodology to enhance collaboration and coordination across the organization and optimize processes with clear controls.  This proprietary business process design methodology will help consumer products companies address challenges such as the process of getting new successful products to market, measuring the success of launches, and managing the integration and collaboration between internal Research and Development teams and external sources of innovation and renovation.

Consumer products companies are increasingly considering Sustainability as they evaluate their new product portfolio from a marketing, corporate social responsibility, and packaging perspective. Visit our Sustainability page to learn more about Clarkston Consulting’s comprehensive sustainability solution.

Clarkston delivers:

• Strategy
  • Comprehensive Assessments
  • Benchmarking & Best Practices
  • Current State Gap Analysis and Improvement Roadmap
  • Defined High Impact/ High Value Processes
  • Business Case and Benefits Analysis
  • Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Vendor Selection
• Process Development
  • Process Alignment and Reengineering
  • Defined Roles & Responsibilities
  • Business Impact Maps
  • Process enhancement accelerator
  • Stage gate implementation
  • Commercialization
  • Rationalization
• Enabling Technologies
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
• Training
  • Instructional Development

To learn more about our New Product Development and Innovation solutions for consumer products manufacturers, call us toll free at 1-800-652-4274 or send an email to marketing@clarkstonconsulting.com.