Healthcare

The healthcare industry is one of the largest, most complex and fastest growing in the U.S. economy.

It consists of all businesses and organizations involved in the provision and coordination of medical service;, the manufacture of medical devices, equipment or drugs; and medical insurance services. From new technology-driven products and digital services to higher-volume, lower-cost manufacturing techniques, this industry is always looking for new ways to enhance quality of life and care and deliver superior solutions that customers want. 

Our clients in this industry span the full range of the supply chain from material sciences, biotechnology, medical device and drug development to insurance services and the operators of hospitals and healthcare facilities including not-for-profit organizations. 

How We Help

We have successfully applied our expertise to solve a wide range of innovation and product development pain points within these businesses and organizations. Our innovation management solutions are widely implemented throughout this industry, especially our flagship offerings, Stage-Gate and Portfolio Governance. As many of these businesses continue their efforts to digitize their business processes (e.g., innovative technologies and new product ideas, 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 of monitoring progress against your strategic goals, simplifying and enabling 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 healthcare providers we have worked with: