Product requirements are becoming increasingly imprecise and incomplete.
Die Evolution der
Produktentwicklung
erfolgreich managen.
Successful management
of product development
Maybe these challenges
look familiar to you:
WE TAKE CARE OF THE PROBLEMS
AND OFFER SOLUTIONS.
Reduce Costs
- Your development costs are too high?
- Your products are too expensive?
- The development does not have the product costs in focus?
We not only reduce the development costs of our customers, but also show ways to reduce product costs.
In the early phases of product development, the course is set for the later product costs. Through targeted measures and methods, we ensure that our customers recognize and set the correct
and keep them under control during further development.
The way in which product development is planned and managed has a significant impact on development costs. We ensure that development activities are planned and controlled in a cost-transparent manner.
- Want to learn more about how to reduce costs?
Faster to Market
- Your developments need too much time?
- Your competition is developing faster than you?
- Your prototypes are not ready for important milestones?
- The various disciplines are not synchronized in terms of time?
We make product development from the idea to series production noticeably faster, so that the time to market can be significantly reduced.
Lean and parallelized processes, intensive and simultaneous collaboration, targeted agility and the avoidance of late corrections can significantly reduce the duration, to name just a few levers.
Shorter development cycle times mean lower risks, fewer changes during the project, better planning, fewer resource conflicts and more completed developments per time.
With the same manpower, more parallel product development projects can be handled, thus increasing the revenue per developer.
- Would you like to learn more about the possibilities for cost reduction?
Quality Increase
- The quality costs of manufacturing new products are high?
- Are you struggling with high friction losses when transferring development results to production?
- Do you recognize quality problems only late?
We increase the quality of development results for our customers so that they meet the announced quality requirements.
The quality requirements of all parties involved are managed across the board and from the outset as an integral part of development, for example in the context of maturity models.
Quality-relevant risks are identified and eliminated at an early stage.
The transfer of development results to the series product runs more smoothly, the start of series production can be planned more easily, and quality costs and expenses for rework are reduced.
- Want to learn more about how to improve quality?
Satisfied Customers
- Do you fail to exceed your customers' expectations?
- Are you struggling to respond to your customers' flexibility with incomplete or frequently changing requirements?
- Is your organization struggling to involve customers in product development?
The development department keeps a close eye on customer needs and reacts flexibly and quickly to customer change requests.
We show our customers how they can quickly and purposefully develop the right products and delight their customers despite unclear or incomplete requirements.
The development activity has the customer’s needs firmly in mind and reacts flexibly and quickly to change requests.
We show our customers how, despite unclear or incomplete requirements, they can quickly and purposefully develop the right products and delight their customers.
- Want to learn more about ways to increase customer satisfaction?
Project Example 1
SCRUM in the development of physical products
- Reduced costs and effort for troubleshooting
- Improved product concepts lead to lower manufacturing costs
- Lower quality costs in development and manufacturing
- Increased focus on project goals and milestones, results orientation and speed of project sorting
- Early detection of problems and risks, high speed in problem solving
- Better transparency of the project progress
- More intensive and positive interdisciplinary collaboration of teams
- Analyze feasibility and potentials of the Scrum methodology in the given context
- Set up and coach two Scrum pilot projects
- Act as Scrum Master, train teams in Scrum methodology and roles, train internal Scrum Masters
- Make a recommendation for the introduction and expression of the Scrum methodology
- Design of a customer-specific, hybrid Scrum concept taking into account given constraints regarding organization and processes
- Training, coaching and stakeholder management
- Elements of the Scrum Guideline, Scrum artifacts such as Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog, Scrum Meeting Structures
- Risk list, problem list, visual management board, KPIs
Project Example 2
Optimization of the documented and lived PEP
- Reduced quality costs at product handover and in series production, effective for all subsequent projects
- Reduced resource requirements, potential revenue per employee is increased
- "Design to Cost" and "Design for Manufacturing" are improved, resulting in reduced manufacturing costs
- Shortened time to market and to break even
- Acceptance of and compliance with the development process
- Interacton, collaboration and working towards common goals has been improved
- Problem solving skills improved
- Reduced number and severity of problems encountered
- Analysis and redesign of the development process
- Improve project management methods, tools and governance
- Introduce interdisciplinary and cross-site communication and collaboration
- Optimize the process of proposal preparation in terms of duration and costs
- Value stream mapping and redesign for product development
- Structured problem solving and risk management
- Incremental planning and progress control
- Communication standards and rules
- Coaching of project managers and line managers
Project Example 3
Optimization of product development in a matrix organization
- Reduced costs of development projects, effective for all subsequent projects
- Reduced need for human resources per project, or increased revenue potential of development resources
- Lower production costs
- Transparency and timeliness of project status
- Speed of the project progress
- Ownership and active collaboration in project teams
- Early anticipation and handling of risks and problems
- Time in meetings, no-shows in meetings, lack of preparation for meetings
- Optimize interdisciplinary collaboration in product development in a global, locally distributed matrix organization
- Improve operational planning and control of projects and departments in the matrix organization
- Create transparency regarding project status, problem solving and risks
- Convince and engage management and employees
- Visual management for projects, programs and departments
- Agile methods for control and communication
- Design of roles and responsibilities
- Communication rules, standards and tools
- Coaching of project managers, line managers and teams
Project Example 4
Duration of development projects reduced by 30%
- Lead time of development projects demonstrably reduced by > 30%
- Order intake and sales increased
- Development costs reduced
- Reduced personnel requirements, revenue potential of development personnel increased by 40%
- Reduced quality costs in the project phase and in the series producton
- Increased transparency, timeliness and trustworthiness of project status, risks and issues
- Improved collaboration in project teams, problem-solving competence and personal responsibility
- Reduce duration of development projects
- Introduce project portfolio management
- Dovetail project control and management in the specialist departments
- Design and implement the Obeya room
- Train and coach problem solving and risk management
- Visual management for projects, programs and departments
- Agile methods for control and communication
- KPIs and Hoshin Kanri / Policy Deployment
- Communication standards and rules
- Coaching of project managers, line managers and teams
What drives us
Our vision is to make our customers the fittest and best at developing products. We are passionate optimizers, we want to make workflows as fluid as possible and reduce the unnecessary. We want to help organizations to apply modern structures and methods that can cope with current and future demands. We enjoy working with people and want to offer our clients’ employees the opportunity to develop their skills. As scientists and engineers, we are passionate about technology and want to help our customers develop the most competitive products.
How we work
We agree on clear goals against which we measure ourselves.
We keep our knowledge at the cutting edge of technology. Our expertise is based on solid foundations and many years of practical experience. We are experts in product development and focus on this niche.
We act with the necessary flexibility to involve the people and achieve sustainable improvements.
We make clear recommendations and implement them transparently. This applies to both planning and progress.
We transfer the knowledge necessary for sustainable improvement to the employees of our customers.
And this not only through training, but essentially through support during application (process coaching).
With a strong focus on sustainable implementation by our customers, we ensure the conscious experience of successes made possible by the changes. In this way, rapid and targeted cultural change is supported.
LEAN DEVELOPMENT
AGILE DEVELOPMENT
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
Personal industry experience
Not only do we know consulting, but as product development executives we have also come to know and understand our customers’ perspectives. We know the constraints and boundary conditions that our customers have to cope with and take these into account in our approach.
Walk the talk
What we communicate as profitable, we also apply in our own work. We act lean, agile to a reasonable degree, customer-focused and with an outstanding management of our consulting projects.
We implement
Our recommendations and activities aim to have implemented sustainable improvements by the end of the project. For you as a customer, it is evident that you can successfully continue on your way without external support. This also includes that your management and employees have been empowered by us to the necessary extent.
We help our customers develop products quickly and efficiently without compromising on quality or cost.
For 6 years now, we have been giving companies a clear competitive edge.
DR. RER. NAT. PHILIPP OLEINEK
Managing Partner
Dr. Oleinek studied physics at the Technical University of Munich and earned his doctorate at the Technical University of Dresden and the Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden.
Subsequently, Mr. Oleinek was active for more than 10 years in large companies in the electronics and automotive supply industries, gaining hands-on experience in the areas of development management, technical sales, project management and innovation management. In his consulting work, Mr. Oleinek has focused on the topics of lean development, agile development, project management, innovation management and systems engineering. The industries he has advised include automotive OEM and suppliers, mechanical engineering, plant engineering and aerospace from small mid-sized to large companies.
DR.-ING. JOACHIM WAGENBLAST
Partner
Dr. Wagenblast graduated from Aalen University with a degree in mechanical engineering in the field of plastics technology and from the Technical University of Berlin with a degree in engineering and a doctorate in materials science.
He has 20 years of experience as an executive in the automotive and plastics processing industry with responsibility for product and process development, business development and general management in Germany, China, India and North America. Dr. Wagenblast has profound experience in restructuring and reorganizing development/business units as well as in creating and implementing product technology roadmaps. He has achieved extensive success in establishing agile development methods and innovation management on a global basis in cooperation with renowned consulting companies.
