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About Knowledge Based Product Development Consulting

Replace the “Fear of the Unknown” in your new product development with Knowledge and increase productivity by a factor of four.

  • Are you getting the most out of your product development investment?
  • Are your new products delivered on time without any costly design loopbacks?
  • Are your new products helping you gain market share?
If you answered no to any of these questions, you need to learn how to implement Knowledge Driven Product development (KDPD) in your business. It works for Toyota...it can work for you.

What you will learn:

  • How to increase development productivity by a factor of four.
  • How to move from a Phased Gate process to the KDPD process.
  • How to use the LAMDA (Look, Ask, Model, Discuss, Act) process; and how it will help you understand true customer interests, and how it can help generate the knowledge required to develop products.
  • How to utilize Knowledge Briefs (in an A3 format) to build and communicate knowledge throughout your organization.
  • From the Teledyne Benthos case study, about how to get started with the transformation, and how to launch your first new products using the principles of knowledge based product development.
See Ron's Bio, or order the book.