R&D / NPI OVERVIEW

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

Managing your R&D / NPD organization for success requires a holistic approach across diverse disciplines, including opportunity assessment, portfolio management, project planning and management, resource allocation, cost center management.

What is a holistic approach to R&D? Holistic approach involves the integration of business processes and business intelligence. Simply speaking, they are: 1. Measurement Rigor: measuring your day-to-day execution metrics against your target metrics to be achieved. 2. Integration of R&D Business Processes: beyond just the formulation of your phase/gate commercialization processes, and the production of Senior Management reports.

GRIP R&D/NPI leverages the latest Oracle/XML/Internet technology to integrate all of these aspects of a corporation's product development processes. It is transparent to you, it simplifies your management tasks and it frees up time to focus on your core business. It saves dollars and frustrations that blur your path to successful product realization.

Streamlining your back-office functions improves your vision: GRIP R&D/NPI provides the high-level insight necessary to keep product lines aligned with corporate business objectives.

An effective R&D Governance system must act as a conduit or the connective fiber that enables key participants – from process managers and functional managers to senior executives-to effectively perform their roles in orchestrating a functional R&D.

GRIP R&D/NPI is a simple and nimble framework that reconciles your company's top-down business strategies with the bottom-up concerns of day-to-day project work.

GRIP R&D/NPI allows ALL managers immersed in the day-to-day activity of product development to easily and quickly provide information about projects and resources up the management chain to decision makers within the organization.

GRIP R&D/NPI empowers the decision-makers to act on that information to make tactical and strategic choices about projects and products-as well as the resources they commit to those projects and products.

Overall, GRIP R&D/NPI facilitates the clear dissemination of individual project objectives, within the context of the strategic goals of the business unit, and communicate seamlessly to the users involved in project execution.

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