Areas of concentration include the examination of core product creation processes and leadership deployment:
| Product Management | The challenge of developing and maintaining focus on the scope and definition throughout the life cycle of a product development program — while achieving harmony among the attendant customer, regulatory, functional, process and financial targets — requires a strong leadership model, effective objective setting processes, robust bill of material and change management systems and strong program management and operating systems. |
| Value Management | Creating a compelling value proposition for new products that provides a visceral “want to buy” customer intent along with a good return to shareholders requires processes that breed and encourage close collaboration by all stakeholders in the product creation enterprise. Value Management places “relevant innovation” where customers most appreciate it while removing “waste” from the value chain. |
| Quality Management | While making significant progress in the last decade, many companies still lag their competitors in the reliability and durability of their products; thereby creating to significant damage to brand equity and reputation. Warranty costs represent a heavy financial drain on companies. Quality and issue management techniques and process improvement focus on both preventive and problem solving methods during product development yield immediate and lasting effects on increasing customer satisfaction and reducing field costs. |
| Execution Management | Technology accelerators and simultaneous engineering principles dramatically impact the speed and fidelity of product creation. The fastest and best product development companies in the world are most successful at weaving the people, process and technology dimensions into a culture where innovation, continuous improvement, speed and quality of execution drive the aligned behaviors of product development teams. |
| Leadership Transformation | Leadership in product creation represents the single largest contributor to performance improvements. The execution discipline of product development leaders in today’s fiercely competitive global industries requires the style, behavior and methods that unleash the intellectual capital potential of any product creation enterprise. |
The St Clair Consortium’s unique and client-customized approach creates immediate and sustainable results in product creation.