Current State R&D Assessment

• Every project begins with an assessment. MACH 9 catalogs the “knowns”, risks and gaps. We set the starting line and define a finish line. The route between them will begin to take shape.

Portfolio Management, Governance and Optimization

• Embedding effective portfolio management and governance helps ensure ROI. Innovation-ready companies emphasize breakthrough or disruptive innovations, while less sophisticated innovators allocate resources more heavily to “near-in” or sustaining innovation. Let us work with your team to define this for your organization.

Product Development Process Improvements

• Transform your product development function into a competitive weapon with optimized cycle times and lower costs. We can help you create a repeatable, fast and efficient product development model, determine the essential capabilities and talent resources you need, and identify and embed the right tools to accelerate your progress.

Differentiating Capability Based Mapping

• To improve organizational flexibility, increase the efficiency of R&D investments and to ensure R&D work is done by the most appropriate resources; MACH 9 assesses the extent to which the capabilities required to execute work are differentiated, and it prescribes a resourcing approach accordingly.

R&D Architecture and Resourcing Frameworks

• It’s not always clear which work R&D should avoid doing internally. This results in higher costs, internal resources being tied up, and un-necessary trade-offs elsewhere in the portfolio. MACH 9 assesses the extent to which the capabilities required to execute work are differentiated vs. commoditized, and it prescribes an internal vs. external souring approach accordingly.