Innovation and Product Development

Product Development and Innovation in Emerging Markets: The New Competitive Reality

2012-05-14T05:00:00Z

Dynamic Operations: Dynamic Solutions, Decisive Results

2012-04-18T05:00:00Z

Learn how Accenture can help your organization create dynamic operations to cope with permanent volatility.

Asia Consumer Product Trends: Implications for Retailers and Manufacturers

2012-02-16T06:00:00Z

Read Accenture's report about Asia consumer product trends, implications for retailers & manufacturers and how consumer buying behaviors are changing due to economic cycles.

Open Innovation: What’s Behind the Buzzword?

2012-02-03T06:00:00Z

Read how leading companies are using open innovation to drive high performance.

AstraZeneca: Digital Application Delivery

2011-11-21T06:00:00Z

Accenture helps AstraZeneca achieve high performance through digital application delivery.

Enabling Innovation through Business Process Management

2011-09-05T05:00:00Z

Read Accenture’s research on how Business Process Management (BPM) can help create a lasting innovation capability and drive high performance.

Is Your Supply Chain Talent Ready for Growth?

2011-08-29T05:00:00Z

Read Accenture’s Geoff Deines' article analyzing what companies need to do to empower their supply chain workforces and to excel in the hypercompetitive global environment.

Improve Customer Service and Fraud Detection to Deliver High Performance through Claims

2011-08-26T05:00:00Z

Results from the Accenture Insurance Consumer Fraud Survey 2010 point to four overall key findings that contribute to the slowdown of claims performance.

Social Sales: Collaborating for High Performance

2011-07-12T05:00:00Z

Read how Accenture argues that B2B companies need to use social networking extensively to promote social sales to enable high performance.

Europe in Tomorrow’s World: The Views of Business Leaders

2011-07-05T05:00:00Z

Read about Accenture research with the European Business Summit and FEB discussing the new challenges and opportunities for European market.

How Companies Can Stay Ahead of the S-Curve

2011-06-09T05:00:00Z

Successful firms don’t just go from good to great, they do it again and again by managing in tandem today’s business and tomorrow’s

The Innovation Death Spiral

2011-05-27T05:00:00Z

Read about the nature of innovation, the characteristics of the “innovation death spiral” and how to turn things around.

Balancing Product Cost and Innovation

2011-05-17T05:00:00Z

In this article for IndustryWeek, Accenture’s Robert Forrest and Venkatesh Iyer argue that manufacturers can cut costs by creating simpler products.

Why the West Needs to Learn about Workaround Innovation

2011-03-07T06:00:00Z

A different approach to innovation pervades new economies, born of scarcity and expressed in levels of ingenuity, resourcefulness and drive.

Innovation Excellence: Creating Market Success in the Energy and Natural Resources Sector

2011-02-17T06:00:00Z

Read about Accenture’s Stephan Scholtissek book on Innovation Excellence and creating market success in the energy and natural resources sector.

Priming the Innovation Engine to Drive Growth

2011-02-03T06:00:00Z

Innovation is one of the primary drivers of value, growth—and thus ultimately of high performance.

Process and Execution Excellence: Linking Process to Customer Value and Profitability

2011-02-02T06:00:00Z

Read about Accenture video on Process and Execution Excellence and how we can help clients make the right investment decisions and develop a process-based competitive advantage.

Accenture Research and Insights into Product Development Mastery

2011-01-27T06:00:00Z

Product development has become a key capability in today’s economy. Accenture research investigates the state of play globally.

Campina: Product Life Cycle Management

2011-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helped Campina create a new platform that enabled greater business-wide transparency. This ensured that new legislative requirements were met in record time.

Product Lifecycle Management: The Innovation Enabler Goes Mainstream

2010-11-08T06:00:00Z

Until recently, product lifecycle management (PLM) was an esoteric specialty practiced deep inside the engineering departments of manufacturing companies. But today, forward-thinking business leaders in many other industry sectors see PLM as an essential cross-functional discipline.

Growth through Innovation in the Electronics and High-Tech Industry

2010-02-09T06:00:00Z

Business innovation has become imperative to meet new marketplace challenges and achieve high performance. Developing stronger organization capabilities and talent can drive innovation and innovation management.

A Matter of Focus

2010-02-01T06:00:00Z

Successful innovators do not all follow the same strategy. What matters most is deciding what kind of innovator you are—an R&D-driven leader, or a follower gaining the necessary know-how by acquisition or partnering—then putting all your resources behind that decision.

Engineering Company: Business Process Management—Life Cycle Management

2010-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helped this supplier of products and services to the US military improve its processes and create the capacity to deliver a greater range of products in the future.

Fast Innovation

2009-12-02T06:00:00Z

Fast Innovation is a book for executives and managers who want to know why it takes so long for innovations to reach the market and why these innovations so often fail.

Innovation: A Priority for Growth in the Aftermath of the Downturn

2009-11-17T06:00:00Z

Companies prioritize innovation. However, current business practices are preventing companies from realizing the full potential of their innovation efforts.

Open Innovation: How to Create the Right New Products

2009-10-21T05:00:00Z

New-product development challenges are especially acute in the communications industry.

Developing Innovation and Products Lifecycle Management (PLM) Strategies

2009-10-19T05:00:00Z

Companies that have focused on PLM show that a handful of refinements to capabilities underpinning PLM can spell the difference between product leadership and being mired in the middle of the pack.

Innovation and Execution get High Performance in Product Development

2009-09-03T05:00:00Z

Accenture research helps to uncover the secrets of product development masters, and the steps that companies intent on attaining high performance should consider in order to follow their lead.

Shared Services: Operating "Lean and Mean" with Kaizen

2009-06-05T05:00:00Z

Reducing cost and response time in shared services for high performance

Managing New-Product Development in Challenging Times

2009-02-20T06:00:00Z

How can communications companies continue to support essential product development activities at a time when budgets are being cut & headcounts are being reduced?

Consumer Products: Target Practice

2009-01-22T06:00:00Z

For most leading consumer products companies, “crowdsourcing” is a way to combine consumer insight and the insights of frontline, customer-facing employees.

How to Get the Most from Your Best Ideas

2008-09-15T05:00:00Z

If organizations are to achieve and sustain high performance, they need to regard innovation as a business discipline, and then manage and execute it accordingly—as an end-to-end process.

Fabricating Innovation in the Semiconductor Industry

2008-06-11T05:00:00Z

In the semiconductor industry, producing the right product in the right quantities at a competitive cost is essential to success.

How to Capture the Essence of Innovation

2008-01-15T06:00:00Z

The key essence to successful innovation is an internal network that actively involves people throughout the organization distilling fruits dialogue into value-generating ideas.

Product Cost Management: Optimizing Product Differentiation and Life Cycle Costs to Achieve High Performance

2007-04-30T05:00:00Z

Accenture has found that some of the most successful organizations are particularly adept at managing product costs without compromising the ability to offer new features and functions that resonate with existing and new customers.

Accenture Innovation Center for Communications, Media and Technology in North America

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The Innovation Center in North America works closely with clients in the communications, electronics, high tech, and media and entertainment industries to present real-world technologies and customer-centric solutions to help solve critical business problems.

Accenture Analytics Innovation Center in Barcelona

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The Accenture Analytics Innovation Center, Barcelona, provides a showcase for Accenture’s sophisticated analytics solutions.

Leading Financial Services Provider: Optimizing Critical Processes

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture helped this large Southeast Asian banking group in optimizing its business processes from its newly installed core banking system.

Global Electronics Manufacturer: Growth Strategy/Sustainability

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture helped this global electronics manufacturer to identify and prioritize new markets for its growth strategy.

Global Electronics Manufacturer: Innovative Service Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Escalating service costs led an Asia-based global electronics manufacturer to invest in service management innovation to contain costs and sustain profitable growth. Its decision is paying off.

Global Service Provider: Business Process Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture helped a Global Service Provider in understanding the connection between its applications and the business processes they support.

Product Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management for Consumer Goods and Services Companies

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Effective product lifecycle management is extremely complex for most consumer goods and services companies, requiring them to integrate many internal and external resources and capabilities, not all of which are controlled by the manufacturer.

Innovation Performance: Services Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture innovation solutions help clients improve innovation performance to drive sustained and profitable growth.

Accenture Innovation Center for Media and Entertainment

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The Accenture Innovation Center for Media and Entertainment in Bangalore develops the latest technology to help clients in Asia achieve high performance.

Accenture Solutions for New Product Development and Innovation for the Communications Industry

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Driving high performance through cost-effective delivery of innovative products and services

Leading Consumer Packaged Goods Company: Identifying Opportunities for New Ventures

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Operating in the highly competitive consumer packaged goods industry, the client has always strived to find new ways to stay ahead of its peers.

Innovation Value Roadmap: Services Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture Innovation Value Roadmap enables the rapid buildup of sustained innovation capabilities and ultimately drives high performance.

Timken: SAP-Based Solutions

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture assisted Timken with replacing a large portion of its systems infrastructure with an SAP-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, leading to one business platform and one set of processes that are driving improved operating efficiency and customer service.

Concept Development: Service Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture Concept Development leverages deep consumer & organizational insights to build a portfolio of bold & truly differentiated product and service ideas.

Open Innovation: Service Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture Open Innovation radically reinvents the innovation process & helps in realizing higher value from innovation investments & drives high performance.

Product Lifecycle Management: Service Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture Product Lifecycle Management optimizes the product life cycle from idea to end of life in order to maximize revenues & profit while minimizing cost.

Consumer Products Lifecycle Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Innovation Engine: Service Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture Innovation Engine manages all parts of the innovation process & improves innovation ROI by boosting speed to market systematically and successfully.

Managed Collaboration Services Telestration

Watch Accenture's video and learn how managed collaboration services, between retailer and supplier, can bolster shopper loyalty, drive more sales and improve brand reputations.

Accenture Innovation and Product Development Services Overview Video

Watch Accenture’s innovation and product development services overview video which highlights our capabilities in new product development, innovation and support.

Product Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management for Electronics and High Tech Companies

Accenture provides electronics and high tech companies three distinct services to help dramatically improve their product innovation efforts: Embedded Software Development and Testing, Product Life Cycle Management and Product Cost Management.

Fast Innovation and Growth: Service Overview

Fast innovation & growth - Drives sustainable and repeatable breakthrough innovation that is fast, differentiated and disruptive.

Telematics Services for the Industrial Equipment Industry

Innovative companies in the manufacturing and construction industries are starting to use telematics as an essential tool for driving high-performance business.

Oil-Field Services Firm: Innovation

Accenture helped this oil-field services firm transform its research and development engineering (R&DE) processes based on governance, lean processes and market-focused innovation.

Global Packaged Foods Company: Sales Promotions Process Improvement

Accenture helps a food company develop a promotional recipe for achieving high performance through operational excellence.

Innovation and Product Development: Services Overview

Accenture’s Innovation and Product Development (IPD) services cover the end-to-end spectrum of the product and service life cycle, from discovery and execution to the commercialization and termination.