Food and Beverage

The Food and Beverage Industry is large and diverse with a sophisticated network and supply chain.It’s one of the oldest industries on the planet yet is still full of innovation.

From new products and services to higher-volume, lower-cost packaging and production techniques, this industry is always looking for new ways to produce the food customers want at the best possible price.

Our clients in this industry span the full range of the supply chain from agriculture and ingredient specialists to manufacturers of food, beverage, packaging and equipment to the operators of national chains.

How We Help

We have successfully applied our expertise to solve innovation and product development pain points within these businesses, as well as across the supply chain through our long-term partnerships with associations. Our innovation management solutions are widely implemented throughout this industry, especially our flagship offering, Stage-Gate. The Stage-Gate Model is the industry standard to govern and guide diverse portfolios of project types to success because simplifying and streamlining innovation for internal teams, co-development partners and the supply chain is critical.  As many food and beverage businesses continue their efforts to digitize business processes (e.g., innovative idea generation, new product requests, portfolio management for new products, roadmaps and new product development), they look to us for software solutions, implementation support and cross-functional training 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-renown academic research, to provide you with a credible, evidence-based improvement roadmap

NPD Portfolio Governance.

Winning at innovation requires making the right bets and allocating the right resources across strategic portfolios and projects to execute your product innovation & technology strategy. Our Portfolio Governance Program will bring visibility to your dynamic, evolving pipeline of innovation projects with the aim to monitor progress against your strategic goals and simplify and enable timely and strategic investment decisions.

New product & technology development process.

Winning at new products, repeatedly, is made possible when your organization can rely on a professionally designed process equipped with functional and cross-functional best practices and modern management to guide teams and decision-makers. Whether you are implementing a process for the first time, improving an existing process or streamlining several current processes into a smart design to enable the execution of a diverse set of project classifications, we can help.

Digital transformation.

Organizations managing R&D with a plethora of spreadsheets, documents and disparate software tools can gain significant cost and time savings with a next-generation innovation management system.  Our Digital transformation program will streamline your R&D portfolio and product development processes, eliminate spreadsheets and implement our certified software to automate the whole process, integrating with (or replacing) your existing, disconnected software tools and data.

Client Examples

A few of the Food and Beverage clients we have worked with include: