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How To Overhaul An Underperforming New Product Development Process

Introduction for:
Your growth hinges on how well you get - Capturing, nurturing and selecting your
new ideas, products and services to ideas for development
market, and manage them through their - Executing development projects
lifecycle. - Integrating new products and services
These processes are the crux of customer into the business and your channels to
experience and competitive advantage. market
They are also the most complex cost - Managing products and service though
intensive, risk laden organizational their lifecycle
processes. The challenge is to ensure your hidden
Does it take too long for your new barriers to performance are revealed, and
products or services to reach the the that root causes are fixed in the right
volumes you planned? Do your people order, and do this while running the day
struggle to juggle the trade offs, to day business.
organizational disconnects and effective Revealing the Hidden Problems
use of critical resources? Is execution We facilitate workshops with people in
is a series of mini crises? Do you have the value chain to quickly surface
complex, uncertain work practices and perceived problems, and build buy in to
processes with inefficient project fix them.
methods? People need to identify the activities
As your organization has grown, it has where they experience or witness these
probably accumulated work practices, problems and identify their upstream
processes and behaviors that no longer causes. They need to easily 'see' or
fit current organizational structures. confidently describe how the organization
Has it has become harder to get the creates and delivers value and understand
organization to coordinate effectively to the downstream effect of the work that
meet the everyday challenge of getting they do.
better products and services in the hands A clearly understandable operational
of more delighted customers? blueprint or map, that describes how the
This paper discusses the challenges you organization performs the activities and
might face when overhauling and improving uses information to create and deliver
your product-to-market or idea to cash new value, enables people to become very
performance. Getting this right will have objective about cause and effect. This
a high impact on your market performance helps change vague or uncertain problems
and reduce the sources of organizational into objective and tangible 'problem
conflict, operational stress and the statements'.
costs of DOME (Duplication, Omission, and The next step is to define root causes
Misguided Endeavor). and the high impact interventions that
Concepts to Crises eliminate multiple problems and have most
Changes to products and services often impact on the business goals.
reveal failings in organizational We frequently find that this exposes any
processes, systems, project methods and misalignment between strategy and
structures. The challenges shown in the operational plans. Differences of
panel trigger a crisis management interpretation of strategy and/or the
response which deals with the symptom, execution plan, lack of agreement on what
rarely the cause. Crisis milestone drives customer value and value to the
management may be the 'stuff of life' for business, confused accountabilities,
many but often turn into the 'millstones' conflicting goals, all extend the time to
that delay customer take-up. design and introduce new services, and
These crises will often trigger erode their potential customer value.
'mindshare' around well intentioned We suggest you get a facilitator to
improvement initiatives. They may create resolve these leadership gaps or
a quick win, but not a BIG WIN. disconnects. This is critical to ensure
Initiatives are either too functionally the plans for new products and services
focussed and fail to bridge hidden are not built on quicksand.
organizational barriers and process Summary
constraints in other functions, or they Most organizations have huge
merely create new problems elsewhere in opportunities to change the performance
the value stream. of their business by improving their
An overhaul requires you to take an end 'concept to cash' or 'product to market'
to end view of the process to convert and practices.
idea to cash and ensure the improvements A well designed project to overhaul 'idea
are properly phased and sequenced. to market', 'product development',
Prioritizing Interventions 'product change and management' work
The scope, complexity and interconnected practices will identify the right
nature of your processes and practices targeted interventions to fix problem
could make prioritisation difficult. root causes and transform market
Problems reside amongst the processes performance.




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