Innovation & R&D Cosulting | MACH 9 Solutions

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Setting a Clear Ambition and Goal

Top performing innovators set aspirational goals aligned with business strategy, along with specific value creation targets that inspire teams to invent better products and services to serve customers

Establish the Right Playing Fields

The best innovators have a deep understanding of shifting customer priorities and explicitly focus on a limited number of domains where they have a right to win

Establishing Strong Innovation Teams

Empowered, multidisciplinary teams accelerate innovation by bringing together external insights, a clear view of the company’s strategic advantage, and technical know-how to realize compelling new value proposition

Making Performance Management a Priority

Ready innovators create clarity on medium-term ambitions and playing fields with clear KPI’s linked to incentives that reward both predictable, incremental progress and successful step change innovation

Developing Talent, Processes and Culture

Leaders follow a culture in which innovation roles have prestige and thoughtful challenges to the status quo are welcomed, ensuring the best talent is tackling the most ambitious innovation challenges

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.

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