KAIZEN™ in Innovation

From Informal, Episodic and Narrow Innovation
To Innovation as a Core Business Process

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of leaders are unable to innovate effectively

innovate the same way they run operations

in 7 ideas launched succeed

of revenue is spent on R&D activities

world class value of return on research capital

Mission

If you have the mission of:

• Improving profitability of new products

• Generating a higher number of high-quality breakthrough ideas

• Improving quality, cost and delivery of research and product management

Challenges

Roadblocks impeding you from fully succeeding

Moving beyond existing products requires new skills (deviation from core business)

Services are easier to copy than products

The green revolution is changing the rules of the game

Customers are seeking to satisfy emotional wants rather than physiological needs

Short release cycles demand continuous investment in innovation

R&D resources are consumed by development activities

Solutions

You need to develop:

Open Ideation

• Generate a stream of breakthrough ideas for innovation

• Set up an ideation management funnel

• Capture strategic insights and specify winning value propositions

• Generate a stream of breakthrough ideas for innovation

• Implement an ideation management funnel

• Capture strategic insights and specify winning value propositions

Technology Roadmaps

• Define the long-term strategy for technology development

• Create processes that are required to define paced tech roadmaps

• Decide on product phase-in and phase-out plans

• Define the long-term strategy for technology development

• Create processes that are required to define paced tech roadmaps

• Decide on product phase-in and phase-out plans

Variety Reduction Program

• Review the value proposition and margins of current products

• Decide on product phase-out to reduce variety

• Improve profitability by removing unprofitable products from your portfolio

• Review the value proposition and margins of current products

• Decide on product phase-out to reduce variety

• Improve profitability by removing unprofitable products from your portfolio

Set-Based Engineering

• Develop knowledge that can be quickly incorporated into new products and processes

• Create the research processes required to solve technical trade-off problems

• Develop knowledge that can be quickly incorporated into new products and processes

• Create the research processes required to solve technical trade-off problems

open ideation, technology roadmaps, variety reduction program and set based engineering

Reach best-in-class performance

Speed of innovation

Portfolio Optimization

Agile Model

Start with a Value Stream Analysis

During the Value Stream Analysis workshop we will create an improvement vision for your organization, business unit or department. By working alongside your team, we will understand the current state of the business processes, design the Value Stream Vision and define an implementation plan to achieve the desired results.

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Find key opportunities in your Innovation & Research processes by conducting a Value Stream Analysis.

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