Consulting

Our consulting services empower product development leaders to maximize business and customer value from new product development.

Lean product development maximizes value from new products. We can help you adapt lean ideas to deliver faster time-to-market, lower costs, and greater capacity to deliver new products.

Typical client results:

• Time to market reductions of 30 - 50%.
• From 60 - 150% more products released per year.
• Product cost reductions of 20 - 40%.

A customized approach to lean product development can help deliver the results that are the most important to you.

We effectively doubled our throughput, our on-time delivery of products increased - essentially doubled also. We haven't been able to gauge the effect on revenue because our first cycle is just now hitting the market but we expect to see, obviously an increase in revenue related to that as well.

Brett Barrick
Playworld Systems
Lewisberg, Pennsylvania, USA

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Uniquely prepared to give you what you need most.

Unlike every other lean product development consultant in the market, Katherine doesn't push a model on you - whether it fits you or not.

Lean product development becomes sustainable when your teams internalize it and adapt it to meet their specific needs.

Katherine works with you and your teams to build a shared understanding of lean product development, and an implementation strategy that ensures that you get your most important needs met first.

I talked to a number of other consultants, and in certain cases, the focus was more on, well, selling certain tools rather than first learning about our actual needs - unique needs.

Katherine first tried to understand what our needs are and helped us understand what we should be working on.


Jacek Dutkiewicz
Buckeye Technologies
Memphis, Tennessee, USA

The Engagement Process

When you contact us to learn more about how we can help you, we will first talk with you about your needs and goals. We will work with you to define measurable goals for the business value the project will deliver. Once the goals are defined, we will develop a proposal outlining the specific things that we will do to help you achieve your objectives.

Example Business Objectives

These are some of the objectives that we have helped our clients meet:

• Faster time to market for innovation
  • Lower overall development time for the Xerxes Project by 18 months to deliver in three years instead of 4 - 5 years.
  • Reduce the number of unnecessary design loopbacks in product development by 20% in the next year.
  • Decrease the amount of time it takes to transition a new product into manufacturing by 4 months by reducing late design changes.
• Lower development costs
  • Reduce tooling costs driven by unnecessary rework by 40%.
  • Eliminate costs from post-production design changes by 70%.
  • Reallocate testing resources to eliminate redundant testing.
• Increase development capacity
  • Deliver six new products in the next cycle with the same resources it took to deliver four this time.
  • Manage increasing design complexity over the next three years with the same number of resources that we have today.
  • Strengthen the knowledge sharing processes between our development partners and our engineering staff so that we leverage our relationships with co-development partnerships into three new products this year.
• Lower product costs and improve product quality
  • Reduce product cost for the new generation of products over current estimates by 30%.
  • Reduce the number of post-production defects and ECOs by 64%..
  • Reduce the number of installation-related support calls by 80%.