ITI leads and facilitates companies to achieve Best Practice New Product Development processes, capabilities and support systems. For our client's top management this translates to three-times or more world-class new product development programs with current new product development budgets.

CPPD®

CPPD is the acronym used by ITI to define all aspects of Concurrent Product and manufacturing Process Development; i.e. processes, methods, integration requirements and global collaborative support systems. Ideally, we start by understanding where our client's new product development processes, capabilities and support systems are relative to the "Best Practice" in the world and the "Best in Class" in their respective markets.

We then work as part of our client's development teams in support of near and long term strategy definition and deployment. These changes are deployed on real new product development projects and consider the unique realities of each client in terms of skill levels, culture and pace of change amidst other technical, operational and business constraints.

ITI Roles & Responsibilities:

• Leader / Facilitator (idea exchange, technology transfer, assist teams in deploying process, keep project on plan)
• Observer, Review & Coach
• Participant (e.g. challenging SE/ALD modeling, customer use loads profiling, data analysis & collaboration)
• Facility and resource provider (e.g. lab and field testing and support)

Roles of clients vs. ITI depend on:

• Newness of process & supporting tools within our client environment
• Client�s current skill levels & availability of qualified resources
• Client culture & acceptance of outside support

Facilitation

For each new Best Practice / process deployed, ITI typically acts in a lead role to demonstrate how processes are applied. We then actively lead a team's deployment of this process on a real new product development program.

Once a sufficient number of client team members are familiar and comfortable with the processes and supporting systems, ITI moves into a role of observing the effectiveness of the client's activities, in effect, a coaching activity to assure the process is deployed. Alternatively, we can act again as a leader/facilitator to advance a best practice to new capability levels.

Implementing Best Practices

Through a project-by-project implementation approach, successes are seen over time at a pace that an enterprise, and its culture and mind sets can absorb change with minimal commercial risk. One of the key rationales for a workshop-based approach is to promote group and one-on-one interactions as part of assuring the best practice new product development processes, capabilities and support systems are transferred and used.

In some cases, deployments may occur across multiple products/platforms. Once an approach succeeds for a single project, it is rolled out to a broader range of products. As changes are formally adopted, as we jointly make progress, ITI projects focus on defining and assisting in the deployment of next generation Best Practices.