Innovation Consulting

As the race for new products and services is more competitive than ever, we are transforming our customers’ innovation ability and the efficiency of their R&D. S7Clear provides consulting expertise oriented towards operations, able to answer the challenges of companies seeking efficiency in their R&D. S7Clear Innovation Consulting Firm brings personalized expertise based on the best practices.

S7Clear Innovation Consulting Fundamentals

Definition of innovation models

Despite the occasional successes of a few innovative projects, revenue from “disrupted” products or services is insufficient for the General Management. From this perspective, it is strategic to reinvent the company’s innovation model in order to strongly contribute to its growth.

R&D and Innovation Projects Portfolio Management

Focusing teams on the most relevant projects and accelerating the marketing of new products or services is an essential challenge for the R&D and Innovation Departments. Portfolio management responds to this problem by making it possible to dynamically select projects that meet the strategy, taking into account the availability of design resources which are by definition limited.

Lean Engineering

In terms of R&D scope, a Lean engineering project has a common objective to eliminate waste from the upstream design of a solution, through t its mass production. S7Clear Innovation Consulting Firm’s “fast-track” approach, capitalizing on the complementary expertise of our Innovation and Operations practices, aims to reduce the time required to materialize the gains by targeting the subjects on which the teams waste the most time and resources.

Optimization of New Product Development Processes

Innovation processes are not always sufficiently adapted to meet the Company’s Quality / Cost / Time requirements. On the strength of our benchmarks in sectors at the forefront of innovation, we revisit the processes throughout the development/industrialization cycle (definition of objectives, feasibility, design validation, product/process validation, standardization). Roles and responsibilities are clearly defined, as are synchronization and multi-business interfaces. Tools and methodologies are also offered to facilitate collaborative work and make the development of new products and services more agile.

Design at Cost Objective: Functional Analysis / Value Analysis

Functional analysis/value analysis remains an essential part of technical and economic optimization in order to achieve what is necessary. Our teams deploy the methodology to our customers in a multi-business logic, relying on our internal S7Clear experts but also external resources: architect, an engineering firm, suppliers.