R&D management

Value generation for customers and business

The Product Development Process Improvement

Technological and product innovation is one of the main levers available to companies to keep and develop their competitiveness on the market. Tend towards a higher quality of design and reduce at the same time any productivity losses, enables companies to obtain high volumes of development using limited resources in the most effective way.  This translates into the capability to:

  • Create rapidly and more frequently new products appreciated by the market;
  • Manage the always latent contradiction between the push to diversify / customize the product and the need to standardize costs and margins containment).

To determine these capabilities, it is necessary to act on specific improvement of the R&D, focusing on the definition of R&D standards, without disregarding the leadtime reduction and the management of product development teams and the reduction of related costs as well.

Insights

Liz Truss was in JMAC Tokyo!

Liz Truss was in JMAC Tokyo!

Liz Truss has been elected as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She actually visited JMAC Tokyo before. There was a commemorative photo taken when she visited our headquarters. We are very happy to introduce it! On September 21, 2017, Liz Truss, Chief...

Toshiba Tec Corporation – Part 2

Toshiba Tec Corporation – Part 2

By converting to ‘Technological starting point’, they further enrich their ideas. This is where the third approach started with JMAC support. In the approach of (3) "Technological starting point", they gathered the information on promising technologies in the world...

Toshiba Tec Corporation – Part 1

Toshiba Tec Corporation – Part 1

“New business development is “Sen-Mitsu”. It is Japanese saying which means 3 (Mits) out of 1,000 (Sen) will succeed. There are the researchers who continue to challenge in such world. They are the members of Toshiba TEC’s “Future Create Activity”. What method did...