R&D / NPI OVERVIEW

SOFTWARE AND PROCESSES TO
BETTER NAVIGATE YOUR R&D TO SUCCESS

To achieve success in managing your R&D / NPD organization, you need to see and act upon it as a whole, not as individual functions, such as opportunity assessment, portfolio management, project planning and management, resource allocation, and cost center management. These functions greatly influence each other. If one is aspect is overlooked, the other disciplines could suffer and this could have a negative impact on the organization as a whole.

Designed through meticulous research, industry experience and Customer feedback, we have developed GRIP R&D as a holistic approach that helps companies solve the dilemma of ineffective R&D / NPD organization management. GRIP R&D holistic approach involves the integration of business processes and business intelligence. Basically, they are:

1. Integration of R&D Business Processes:

Beyond just the Phase/Gate processes, construct and wire the workflow of the entire R&D organizational functions together.

2. Implementing Metrics Measurement Rigor

As part of the process integration, extract Metrics in real-time and map it to R&D Business Metrics.

Using state-of-the art Oracle/XML/WEB technology, GRIP R&D/NPI integrates the different aspects of a corporation’s product development processes.

GRIP R&D/NPI will:

* Provide you the high-level insight necessary to keep product lines aligned with corporate business objectives

* Connect ALL your key participants - from process managers and functional managers to senior executives to allow them to effectively function as an R&D organization

* Reconcile your company's top-down business strategies with the bottom-up concerns of day-to-day project work

* Allow ALL of your managers to quickly relay vital information to decision-makers within the organization

* Empower decision-makers to optimize the use of that information to make strategic judgment regarding projects, products and resources to be used

We help remove barriers to successful product realization by minimizing costs and eliminating frustrations. With GRIP R&D/NPI, you can have more time and energy to grow your core business.

GRIP R&D / NPI makes your governance a non-issue.