2005
PA Consulting Group to host Innovation Workshop, sponsor Frost & Sullivan’s Medical Devices 2005 Executive Summit
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23 February 2005
Workshop will feature tools and techniques for effective delivery of innovative products
New York, NY – PA Consulting Group will sponsor Frost & Sullivan’s Medical Devices 2005 Executive Summit, to be held on 13-17 March , 2005 at the Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. The firm also announced that Daniel F. Walsh, Jr., a member of PA’s Management Group, will be leading an interactive workshop at the event titled “Delivering Innovative Products: Effective Innovation Needs Discipline” on 14 March at 3:45 pm.
This workshop will provide attendees with a set of valuable tools and techniques that will help them and their organizations more effectively deliver innovative products – across all business functions. The workshop is also designed to teach attendees to investigate ways of focusing and managing innovation and innovative thinking in a manner that benefits customers and the organization.
Attendees will learn how to understand customer and user needs and determine technology options and strategies through the use of Voice of the Customer and technology roadmaps. They will utilize techniques such as Quality Function Deployment, Form/Function Matrix, and the Universe Matrix to define product requirements and technology risks. They will also be able to investigate and communicate what will drive or constrain their target market using tools such as market modeling and PA’s own FutureWorlds, a process designed to quantify market environments at a future point in time by identifying various drivers in the market.
PA developed FutureWorlds to help organizations build a coherent view of the future, as a guide to both strategic planning and new product development. FutureWorlds provides a framework to bridge the significant gap between great ideas and actually bringing them to life. This is achieved facilitating creation of a shared vision between marketing and technical functions, and then carefully constructing a series of scenarios to facilitate the team’s understanding of how the future could unfold. These scenarios are used to generate insights into consumers’ likely desires and what new products would have to deliver against. Once a dialogue has been established around these worlds, it is easier for the group to exchange their ideas, by exploiting the reference point that FutureWorlds provides.
According to Walsh, “Innovation is not just novelty, but novel solutions to problems. Innovation should answer the question, ‘In what way can I best solve this issue?’ This workshop will help attendees learn how to define the issues in tangible terms, but answer the questions as completely as possible and use tools to help a team to focus on the critical elements of a solution set and constrain the solutions to fit the problem.”
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About PA Consulting Group
PA Consulting Group is a leading management, systems and technology consulting firm. Operating worldwide in more than 35 countries, PA draws on the knowledge and experience of 3,000 people, whose skills extend from the initial generation of ideas, insights and solutions all the way through to detailed implementation.
From the development of innovative strategies and solutions right through to their successful delivery, all of our work and support is based on deep sector insight and expertise. We work across the private and public sectors, with particular strengths in financial services, energy, life sciences & healthcare, government & public services, manufacturing and telecommunications. We help our clients to design optimal strategies for growth, deliver effective IT that improves business performance, mobilize human resources, deliver complex programs and major business transformations, and develop breakthrough products and processes through our unique applied technology capability.
As an employee-owned company, with no audit arm nor exclusive alliances with third-party vendors or service providers, we are answerable to our clients and ourselves only. This independence means the advice we give to clients, and the work we deliver, is unencumbered by any considerations other than what is best for our clients’ business.
PA’s independent, benefits-driven approach is founded on our strength in innovation, our responsiveness to our clients’ needs, and our unyielding focus on delivery:
Innovation. Innovation comes in a variety of forms -- in how customers' needs are identified and satisfied, in business models, in motivating and aligning staff, in the use of technology, and many more. PA has an unsurpassed track record in innovation, from developing pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting measures and wireless technologies, to helping launch an innovative online bank, to development work that is helping alleviate poverty and boost the economies of developing countries.
Responsiveness. We recognize that each client and each problem has its own challenges and issues. Our solutions are therefore tailored to our clients’ specific circumstances, drawing on the deep industry insight of our consultants. Our relationships with clients are characterized by respect, flexibility and collaboration, and we pride ourselves on the speed of our response and the dedication of our people.
Delivery. At PA, delivering client value is ingrained in our culture. We focus on detailed implementation, with a renowned track record of delivering innovative solutions that achieve lasting change. At PA, we see projects right through to the finishing line - and beyond - delivering significant and measurable value to our clients.
PA: Innovation. Responsiveness. Delivery.
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