Smart Product Development
Profound changes are taking place across all industries. Customer demands are growing continuously, product ecosystems are spreading across different sectors, highly qualified people are becoming increasingly hard to find, and everything is becoming digital.
To achieve excellence, business leaders have to take an integrated approach. This means adapting the structure of their organizations and their product portfolios, in order to create sustainable value for their businesses and their customers.
Where we can help you
Whatever your challenges we will find a tailored approach with you
Being a step ahead of competition and reaching the market earlier, potentially boosting your revenues.
Working on cost-effectiveness in all dimensions and focusing on what really brings value to your customers.
Scaling the output of your existing organization while increasing the motivation of your employees.
Enabling you to develop innovations instead of spending time cleaning up errors.
The EFESO touch
A tailored approach to meet your needs
At EFESO we have a long track record of supporting businesses in four core areas: product; organization; processes; and integration.
We have worked with 120 clients over the last five years, helping them to unlock the value of their products – and the potential within their innovation teams. Our consultants are highly experienced, each offering over 19 years of expertise – and delivering an average 10x return on investment.
We are experts in cross-industry projects. We learn the best practices from the leading players across different sectors and adapt them for your business. We understand your ecosystem. From strategy to realization, we work with you to deliver on the top and bottom lines. Working shoulder-to-shoulder with your teams, we deliver results right from the outset.
By combining top-down and bottom-up perspectives, we create long-term, positive structural and behavioral change.
Some of the results we deliver for Clients
20% - 60%
increase in
Sales Revenue YoY
25%
increase in
Rate of Idea Generation
20% - 40%
decrease in
Manufacturing Cost
€ 2.000
decrease in
Cost of Quality per review
5% - 20%
decrease in
Time to Market
20% - 40%
decrease in
Portfolio Diversification
Client Success Stories
Delivering tangible results
Our Services
Our Smart Product Development services will help you deliver – quickly and effectively
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We help you create profitable products that maximize customer satisfaction. Working alongside you, we can make a difference in the following areas:
Product portfolio management
Enable & exploit the commercial potential of smart products
Complexity and variant management
Manage many product variants, without increasing costs
Frugal innovations
Simplify product functions down to the core requirements
Customer value co-creation (Design-to-Value)
Sustain customer satisfaction by making their requirements integral to design
Sustainable products
Enable eco-oriented product design and re-use
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We help you develop and launch your products faster and more effectively. Working alongside you, we can make a difference in the following areas:
Product & system lifecycle management
Ensure that product data and business functions are aligned
Innovation management
Focus efforts and creativity to achieve a competitive edge
Lean development
Enable customer-orientation, efficiency, and adaptation
Industrialization & launch management
Minimize effort, quality issues and sales delays
Quality in product development
Reduce waste, rework, and complaints
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We help you develop a more adaptive, effective, and customer-oriented organization. Working alongside you, we can make a difference in the following areas:
Global competence footprint
Create sustainable global organizations with clear interfaces with the outside world
Collaboration and network structures
Set common goals and facilitate organizational improvement
Engineering floor management
Enable agile working and move towards “lean” goals for your organization
Agile organization
Create empowered organizations capable of fast reactions and customer-centricity
Minimum viable organization
Focus efforts and streamline structures to meet key essentials
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We work alongside your teams to ensure your innovation initiatives are aligned with your strategy – and the processes connecting your ecosystem are digitally streamlined. We can make a difference in the following areas:
R&D portfolio & strategy synchronization
Align your ambitions and actions with capabilities, and growth
Co-design in ecosystems
Work with partners and suppliers to achieve new results and collaborations
Development 4.0
Apply DigiTech and automation in R&D and lifecycle management
Innovation & engineering operating model
Take a holistic approach to setting the milestones for innovation in your organization
News & Insights
Giving you inspiration and an outside view
Meet our Smart Product Development Experts
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