I help companies to build and manage their technologies and their capabilities surrounding and enabled by technology.

Technology Strategy

• choosing where and how to compete with technology capabilities
• identifying critical technologies needed and developing or sourcing them
• better exploiting current capabilities and assets
• discerning likely future technologies and trajectories

R&D Strategy and Management

• developing research agendas that support the needs of the business
• designing and managing portfolios to optimise reward and risk, outcomes and timing
• developing management processes to underpin effective and efficient research, development and transfer to practice – from idea generation all the way to manufacture
• identifying and building team capabilities – both domain expertise and team effectiveness

Product and Process Development

• developing New Product Development strategies and product portfolios that support and enable Product Strategies and Market Strategies
• optimising portfolios of product development for reward, risk and resilience
• enabling competitive use of Process capabilities to create differentiated products and compelling consumer offerings
• designing management processes to optimise creativity, innovation and then effective development for swift, cost-effective manufacture and launch to a profitable lifecycle, support and withdrawal
• coaching task forces in special projects seeking radical innovation, unusual speed, or project recovery

Protection and Innovation in intellectual property

• working with experts in the area, identifying innovation opportunities from IP
• predicting future likely technology trajectories and developing strategy accordingly
• designing and developing products to optimise their protection