In product development, the quality of collaboration is often more important than the quality of the individual component. In complex organizations in particular, it depends on who decides what and when, who receives what information - and how quickly a problem is actually solved.

If processes are not clearly defined or are organized too rigidly, companies lose time, efficiency and orientation. The consequences are delays, frictional losses and increasing coordination efforts - even though everyone involved is actually doing their best.

We don't believe in process manuals that sit in a drawer - we believe in structures that make work easier. For us, good processes are not an end in themselves, but a tool: they create clarity, provide orientation and promote collaboration.

Many of our customers know exactly what needs to be improved - but often lack the time or the right impetus. This is where we come in: We help you to make your processes leaner, easier to understand and more effective - together with your teams, not over their heads.

The process landscape

For efficient product development, you need a large number of interdisciplinary processes that need to be coordinated and synchronized with each other. Our experience shows that many companies are aware of their process potential - but often lack the time or structure to work on it in a targeted manner. This is exactly where we come in. Together with your team, we bring order to your product development: we systematically scrutinize existing processes, restructure them and make them consistently implementable.

We are guided by a proven process model and focus on the levers that have a decisive influence on your specific objectives:

Management processes:

Strategic planning

Product development begins with strategic planning processes. The aim here is to develop the right technologies and products. To do this, you need processes for determining your product and technology strategy and for deriving binding roadmaps.

Project portfolio management

The roadmaps result in projects that you need to evaluate, prioritize and approve with good project portfolio management. In our experience, this is the most important process step in order to avoid overloading the organization, ensure the project flow and achieve a good time-to-market.

Performance processes:

Technologymanagement

Technology management ensures that new technologies are available at the right time. The aim is to identify technological opportunities at an early stage, evaluate them systematically and develop them further in a targeted manner. This requires a structured search process, suitable evaluation and maturity models as well as clear handover points to pre-development. In this way, you ensure that technologies with potential do not disappear into the laboratory cupboard, but make a contribution to the corporate strategy.

Pre-development

In pre-development, technological ideas are transformed into viable product concepts or technology modules. The focus is on feasibility testing and proving functional limits, manufacturability and expected manufacturing costs. In iterative loops, technical risks are reduced, solution approaches are concretized and initial samples are built - from functional models to demonstrators. Good pre-development processes create a reliable transfer of knowledge into product development and reduce subsequent changes, delays and costs.

Product development

Product development realizes specific customer solutions based on clear requirements and robust concepts. The aim is to develop marketable products quickly, efficiently and with the required quality. This requires well-structured development projects with clear milestones, interdisciplinary teams and coordinated processes - from development to testing and industrialization. A smooth transition to production and the market is crucial for commercial success.

Product care

After the market launch, the utilization phase begins - and with it product maintenance. The aim here is to keep products competitive throughout their life cycle: by improving quality, maintaining variants, optimizing costs or adapting to new standards. Product maintenance processes require close cooperation between development, production, service and sales. They make a significant contribution to customer satisfaction and the company's profitability.

Support processes

Requirements management

A good product starts with clear requirements. Requirements management is about systematically identifying customer needs, precisely deriving technical requirements and keeping them consistent throughout the entire development process. This is particularly crucial in complex development projects in order to avoid misunderstandings, prevent undesirable developments and keep change costs to a minimum. Professional requirements management creates transparency and links market, technology and strategy.

Project management

Development projects are complex, dynamic and interdisciplinary - good project management is therefore the key to successful implementation. The entire spectrum of classic, agile and hybrid working methods is available to you. It ensures clear objectives, reliable schedules and transparent control. This includes structures for planning, controlling, risk management and communication. However, leadership in the project is also crucial: only if the team is focused and motivated can an idea become a marketable product - on time, on budget and in terms of quality.

Change management

Changes are part of everyday life in product development - the decisive factor is how they are handled. Effective change management systematically evaluates the impact of technical, functional or regulatory changes, decides on their implementation and controls their implementation by all affected areas. The aim is to enable flexibility without losing sight of quality, deadlines or costs. Especially in late phases of development, good change management can make the difference between project success and failure.

We not only bring methodological knowledge, but also a deep understanding of the reality of your product development. Our consultants know the challenges in development, project management and leadership from their own experience - and know that processes only work if they are understood, accepted and lived by people.

We listen, question, structure and accompany the implementation. Together with your teams, we create processes that provide orientation, promote collaboration and create space for the essentials: good products - in good time.