Lean development (R&D)

Doing an even better job of meeting customer requirements in a quick, cost-efficient manner comes at a high price for many companies: growing complexity both in products and in development processes means increased waste and, at the same time, reduced efficiency in innovation and development.

Development projects need to be networked worldwide and spread across more and more partners. In addition, customers are growing less tolerant of quality problems in market introduction and series production. The focus today is on reducing costs in development as well as through development. The winners will be those companies that are able to do the best job of managing complexity, not those that are the most technically proficient.  

If a company seeks to be lean, its product development processes and innovation must be lean as well. This means that the optimal, lean organization of development areas and innovation centers becomes a central competitive factor.

For most companies, it is possible with relatively little investment to reduce complexity using lean development approaches and engineering excellence models in order to achieve substantial effects with respect to development and manufacturing costs, quality, lead times, and development efficiency.

In this challenging environment, ROI consulting has lengthy experience in realigning innovation and development with the objective of increasing effectiveness and efficiency to the point where lean development is reached.