Chemicals and Process Industries

The chemical industry is undergoing significant transformation. Progress in technologies, social and economic change is reshaping markets, creating challenge and opportunity. Mergers and acquisitions add another layer of complexity to the organization and to executives and decision-makers specifically.

The daily challenges of regulatory compliance, capacity and supply chain optimization, quality control, recipe management and customer service to name a few, come on top of the more specific challenge of creating Innovation value to the shareholders.

Our cross-industry consultants provide a powerful difference for our clients by establishing Innovation processes that fit their culture, skills and expertise, creating lasting value for years to come.

How we help

We work with clients in the chemical and process industries to equip them with the processes, skills and tools  proven to deliver successful innovation results. Here are examples of typical services: 

Innovation Performance Assessment.

Many clients start with our Performance Gap Assessment service to identify their highest impact opportunities and improve innovation results. This service uses our proprietary quantitative scorecard, distilled from our 30 years of world-recognized academic research, to provide you with a credible, evidence-based improvement roadmap

R&D Portfolio Governance.

Winning at innovation starts with making the right bets across strategic portfolios and projects to execute your product innovation & technology strategy.  Implement our Portfolio governance program to optimize your innovation risk and return, prioritize your projects and integrate with your project Gate funding decisions.

New product & service development framework.

Apply our proprietary Stage-Gate Enterprise program to improve your new product and service success rates and integrate with your R&D portfolio governance process.  Combine Stage-Gate with your internal value-adding processes to help both business and technology cross-functional teams to define, build and launch winning new products and services.

Training, Coaching and Mentoring Services.

Organizations undergoing significant transformation face ongoing changes within their organizational setup and resources. We help our clients by assessing skill and capability gaps and addressing them with customized training, coaching and mentoring programs that deliver short-term results and support the execution of the ongoing Innovation initiatives

Client Examples

A few of the Chemical and Process Industry companies we have worked with: