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Making the product development process measurable

We enable sustainable optimization of your product development by making it measurable and transparent.

Background

When developing a product, a developer typically has four key objectives in mind: implementing the product features requested by the customer, meeting the cost targets set by the company, ensuring quality, and doing all of this within a specified timeframe. Often, it is not until the product is released that the developer realizes not all of these objectives have been met. The causes are difficult for them to pinpoint. The consequences include budget overruns, delayed milestones, or the incomplete implementation of features requested by the customer.

Specific task

  • Identify factors that influence product development
  • Making development and its individual core processes measurable
  • Identify performance issues and develop appropriate measures for optimization
  • Establishing a clear roadmap for optimizing your product development

KBC's Approach

We enable you to make your product development processes measurable and optimize them at any time, using proven, cross-industry approaches. We combine decades of expertise in product development with the strategic use of proprietary tools to create transparency and drive sustainable optimization.

We…

  • identify the key factors that influence the success of your product development (features, costs, quality, time).
  • apply best-practice approaches (metrics, KPIs, etc.) to make the performance of your product development process measurable.
  • Identify fact-based weaknesses in your product development process based on the identified metrics.
  • develop specific measures to optimize your product development process.

All of this is done with the goal of bringing your product to market on time, with the expected features, in the desired quality, and within the specified budget.

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A man with gray hair and green eyes, smiling and wearing a beard, is wearing a white shirt and a dark blue suit; he is sitting with both hands resting on his lap
Jakob le Claire
Senior Partner

Impact achieved

A short-term 30% reduction in development costs for a Tier 1 supplier or a 10% reduction in the product development cycle for a motorcycle manufacturer confirms the success of our methodology.