Our Programmes to help you

Time to Market's programmes relating to new product development, new product introduction, product introduction projects , new product innovation and Product Management are built on our products and services and consist of three main types:

Implementation programmes
Training and skills development programme
Benchmarking programmes

We can provide a free proposal for any of the above types of programme, including programme outline with costing, to meet your requirements - please contact us

Implementation programmes
An Implementation Programme is designed to generate and deliver improvements and better results from Product and Service Innovation. It can also include elements of a skills development programme. From our wide experience of new product development, product introduction and product innovation in different international markets and industries, such as:

• Electronics; Telecoms;
• Software and High Technology
• Engineering and Manufacturing
• Food and Beverages
• Chemicals
• Ceramics and Building products
• Financial Services
• Retailing

we can translate and implement best practices and methods into those best suited to a specific company, business unit, market or industry

Product, Service Offering or Solution Development principles and practices can be tailored for: physical products and associated services; non-physical products and services; Business to Business (B2B); Business to Consumer (B2C) and Business to End-User (B2E) applications.

The mix of topics in an implementation programme is typically unique to each client's needs and situation, however, past programmes have included:

• New Product Development framework or process definition or upgrade then transfer to an intranet application
• Improvement and implementation of roadmap and tools for product, service or solution definition
• Implementation of Market requirements, Voices of Customers and Competitive Offering analysis methods and tools
• Definition and implementation of project management methods and tools for New Product Development or Product Introduction
• Integration of Reward/Risk/Resource management of New Product Development
• Definition and utilisation of project and product metrics within NPD, NPI or Project Management processes
• Generation and use of Digital Metrics Dashboards or scoreboards for product development and associated projects
• Time to Market compression
• New Product Innovation method and tools implementation
• Evaluation and implementation of Design for Six Sigma and Six Sigma Product Development methodology
• Application of Pragmatic Quality Function Deployment (pQFD) and Design for X (DfX) methods

Typical Programme Steps
Each programme is tailored to the client's situation, but typically comprises the following deliverables: roadmaps and models; toolkits, facilitated workshops and software.
A typical programme comprises:

An assessment of current product, service and solution ranges and management practices and processes.

Agreement of programme objectives and methods

Agreement of programme deliverables

Tailoring of framework or model, toolkit and software for client's specifics

Facilitated workshops, 1:1 and 1:n coaching

Off-line telephone and e-mail support

Skills transfer to for example, Product Developers, Product Managers, Product Marketers, Product Marketeers, MarComms folks et. al.

Toolkits
Our approach installs an advanced set of tools to help achieve improvements and results. We assemble these tools into a toolkit for for a client's specific situation. Examples of tools include:

Kano Model
Contextual Enquiry
Ansoff Matrix
Value Proposition
SWOT Chart
Lennonisms (Imagine …..)
Pragmatic Quality Function Deployment (pQFD)
Base Case and sensitivity analysis
Stakeholder Map
Milestone Tracker
Concurrency of phases and tasks
RACI Matrix
Resource Histogram
Metrics Digital Dashboard

these and other tools are referenced on this web site

Software Packages and Templates
Many of the tools are provided with Excel or Web based software packages or templates, known as SoftTools, to facilitate practical use and ease of learning. These include:

Market Requirements Definition (MRD) template
Market, Business and Build (MBB) Definition template
Customer, Business and Build (CBB) Definition template

Click here for information on SoftTools

Free Proposal
We can provide a free proposal, including programme outline with costing, to meet your requirements - please contact us.

Time to Market offers a comprehensive Product Development, Product Introduction, Product Innovation, Product Marketing and Product Management training programme to meet the needs of companies seeking to improve the skills and know how of their people and to leverage improvements in their Product or Service Life Cycle Processes.

Examples are as follows:

Product Development Training Course Workshop Programme
New Product Introduction Training Course Workshop Programme
Product Innovation and Time to Market Training Course Workshop Programme
Six Sigma Product Development Management Training Programme

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Benchmarking Programmes
These can comprise a mix of:

• Healthchecks or assessments of current practices and tools leading to recommendations for improvements in practices and performance

• Explicit Information Gathering - 'Research' and 'Report'

• Participative Knowledge Gathering - participative knowledge gathering

• Group Knowledge Sharing - knowledge gathering involving a group of companies

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