Accelerating Time to Market |
Smart2Market offers solutions and services for improving new product development and time to market. Smart2Market helps SMEs to optimize performance in their respective design and supply chains though helping define strategy, implementing appropriate methods, and establishing cultures of collaboration.
Our solutions focus on aligning your core strengths in people, process, and technology with management's expectations of performance balanced against strategic objectives, and your 'network' capability. This allows us to frame the appropriate scope and progression of problems to address in an engagement.
Product development excellence is analogous to network optimization in the context of mastering the complexity of manufacturing in a global economy. A product development process is essentially a network of connected people. These people have skills, expertise, processes, and technology they apply.
As with any network there are infrastructure and topology issues that require examination in light of performance and scalability concerns. At S2M we equate the nodes (your PDP network) to the people in the process. They have expertise and technology (infrastructure) supporting them. The ways they communicate between the nodes are the arcs or paths (topology). And often the particular topology is constrained by a company's particular notions of organization.
First define the 'network' of expertise, supporting tools, and practices necessary to deliver your particular value to a customer. Whatever processes you use have classic network flows of transportation, scheduling resources, data and IP movement that challenge us to find the shortest path, maximize the flow, or minimize the cost. These three concepts reflect the efficiency (shortest path), the effectiveness (maximum flow), and the economics (cost control) of your PDP.
With the correct problem scoping we can work with your ‘network’ to zero in on the best combination of methods and supporting technology to apply. The expectation is that most SMEs do not possess all the 'network' capabilities they need. Part of global presence is the ability to partner effectively. The methods and means are part of the over all topology of your PDP 'network'. At S2M we have a particular strength in developing and deploying optimal communication methods.
We also realize that ability to partner is only part of the solution. To that end we are assembling a network of resources and expertise (i.e. nodes) available over a flexible topology that can be brought to bear at a moments notice to positively impact your efficiency, effectiveness, or economics.
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