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Process development

Improving process development competence

PA's process development experts have often been asked to assist clients whose process technology investment has been made without the right level of internal infrastructure and expertise in place. These types of investments often start with optimism and can easily end in disaster. If process technology development is important to your business, then it is essential to ensure your overall competence to develop the technology is adequate.

Our experience shows there are four key essentials for a competent development organization:

  • continuous alignment between development goals and business goals
  • development of focus and core competency in key areas of technology
  • the ability to deploy project teams (internal and external) quickly and efficiently
  • the existence of various elements of business infrastructure that enables project work to be conducted, controlled and delivered.

For dramatic changes like these to be made, a typical company will require a Board-level lead and external help.

Contact us

For more information on PA’s approach to improving process development competence, please e-mail: innovation@paconsulting.com or call +44 1763 267492.

Case studies in improving process development competence

  Critikon - Increasing competitiveness of patient-monitoring equipment for the health sector
  SmithKline Beecham - Ribena Smoothie - putting the ‘fast’ in FMCG
  Bosch - Designing and developing the DMO 10 digital metal detector
  Eircell - Swift assessment and evaluation of potential GPRS providers

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