At Arthur D. Little, we offer customized Technology & Innovation Management services to help your organization succeed in an increasingly competitive world.
Many consulting firms offer a single methodology or a set of standard software tools to solve a company’s innovation challenge. At Arthur D. Little, while we have many proven methods and tools, we customize our approach fully to suit the needs of our customers. We know that the way companies innovate in the chemical industry is very different from the way companies innovate in the automotive world. From our experience, the innovation approach is not a single process or method; it is a “holistic process” that needs to be tailored to the company’s strategy and culture.
Arthur D. Little has been at the forefront of technology and innovation management for over 120 years. In addition to advising our clients, we have developed our own technologies and innovations along with our partners in the Altran Group. This provides our customers with unique advantages and opportunities from a leading firm who knows how to build the innovation engine for companies. One of our key strengths is how we bridge the gap between technology and business strategy - maximizing the value creation potential of our client’s business. Below are a few examples of significant innovations where we have been a driving force:
There are three key factors that differentiate Arthur D. Little from its competitors in innovation management:
- The deep and broad technological, scientific and industrial expertise of our consultants who are often sought out by name and reputation;
- Our ability to leverage this expertise to align a client’s innovation initiatives with its business strategies and corporate goals; and,
- Our holistic approach, covering all the critical elements required for success. In addition, helping clients generate and frame big ideas, select the best, and position their business in new ways to exploit them.
At Arthur D. Little, we provide companies with a “holistic” view of the innovation terrain so that innovation results are fully aligned with business strategies. Here is how we help organizations do it!
Innovation Excellence Model©
Business Strategy & Vision
We help you to:
- Develop corporate and business unit vision and strategy with special attention to the area of innovation covering both the "what?" and the "how?"
- Identify, assess and plan new business opportunities
Intelligence Management
We help you to:
- Develop insight in your customer needs
- Assess the technology/patent landscape
- Characterize technology trends and future scenarios
- Gain insights into competitive strengths and weaknesses
- Develop and improve your business and technology intelligence management
Idea Management
We help you to:
- Enhance the effectiveness of your Idea Management
- Identify and develop new radical opportunities - product, technology, service, process and/or business model
Product/Service Portfolio Management
We help you to:
- Optimize and align your product or service portfolio to your business strategy
- Leverage platforms and modularization
- Reduce product cost
- Inject new product and service offerings
Technology Portfolio Management
We help you to:
- Restructure and streamline your research and technology functions
- Align technology strategy and management with product and business strategy
- Develop and improve technology road maps
Resource & Competence Management
We help you to:
- Characterize and develop strategic core competencies
- Organize and restructure your Research and Development resources
- Optimize resource utilization short-, medium-, and long-term
- Identify and secure technology partnerships and collaborations
- Capitalize on hidden IP and technology potential
- Diagnose and address cultural and behavioral obstacles hindering innovation
Development & Launch
We help you to:
- Accelerate time-to-market and capture the global potential of an innovation
- Improve delivery precision
- Increase throughput
- Increase quality
- Decrease budget overruns
- Improve your management of development risks
Post Launch
We help you to:
- Manage product modification requests, e.g., quality improvement, cost reduction, market adaptation
- Learn from experience
Customer & Business Results
We help you to:
- Develop and implement appropriate key performance indicators
- Gather and analyze innovation results
For companies, making the right choices is equally as important as their proper execution. Finding new opportunities for growth, being the fastest to the market or just increasing product development results are goals that all companies desire. Arthur D. Little recognizes these challenges by working closely with its clients to create an innovation approach that delivers the results required to achieve a company’s strategy.
Typical benefits companies achieve by upgrading their innovation management
