Problem:

• Our process is too complicated and slow. It’s full of waste
• Our Stage-Gate process is broken. It’s too cumbersome and bureaucratic.
• Design loopbacks, re-work and piles of engineering changes are killing us.
• Our cycle times are too long!
• We are constantly late and over budget.

Most Stage-Gate processes get corrupted over time. Process managers add more reviews and more deliverables to every phase. A technique that was supposed to enable more efficient product development has become a roadblock to many, many project teams. More disturbing is the reality that good, old-fashioned innovation, engineering fun and problem solving has been replaced with tedious process compliance and boring status reporting.

Fundamentally, most product development processes lock-in requirements and designs way too early and cause the learning (required to develop innovative and successful products) to occur way too late! LATE LEARNING IS EXPENSIVE LEARNING and is the root cause for why most projects end up late and over budget.

Based on the premise that the fundamental VALUE in product development is the CREATION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, mc2solutions brings a knowledge-based approach to product development that is founded in proven LEAN principles and emphasizes early testing to learn approaches. The mc2solution includes:

• Set-Based Design
• A3 Thinking
• Chief Engineer
• Cadence, Pull and Flow
• Value Stream Mapping

Please be assured that we are not advocating eliminating your Stage-Gate process, but we will definitely “LEAN out” this process to eliminate WASTE and increase VALUE.

Usually your mc2solution begins with a diagnostic of your current product development process. Whether we value stream map your current process or perform a comprehensive Product Development Assessment (PDA) is up to you.

From this baseline, we can define your process and performance gaps and develop an implementation plan to achieve an improved future state.

Very often, when we are talking about Lean Product Development, there will require some investment in the Tools for Transformation, our exclusive workshop series to put lean principles into practice in your organization.

• For more information on how to get started, contact us