Services
Every engagement is meticulously crafted to cater to the client's unique needs, whether you need an expert guide, a seasoned partner, or supplemental leadership. You won't get buzzwords or fads. You will receive proven guidance, frameworks, and the support you need to propel your business forward.
Using a collaborative approach, we’ll identify critical gaps and opportunities then build and implement an efficient plan to optimize and accelerate delivery of market-leading products. Throughout the process, your teams’ capabilities will be refined across leadership, strategy, organization, and execution to guarantee a lasting impact.
Maximize Your Product Impact
Whether you're exploring your organization’s purpose, building a product strategy, advancing through product development, or facing challenges between concept and commercialization, Iconic Product Development Consulting is available to discuss your ambitions and how you can achieve transformative progress. Schedule an introductory meeting to discuss your specifics so we can develop your customized proposal.
Assessment
You may benefit from a broad Product and Product Development Assessment. Following a comprehensive assessment of your current business processes and performance, you will receive a personalized report detailing the most impactful opportunities to initiate transformative improvements. The report will include recommended next steps that we will collaboratively refine and finalize, ultimately agreeing on a plan to deliver maximum value in alignment with your business objectives.
Product Strategy
A robust product strategy can help ensure alignment with your mission, anticipate or even drive market changes, and focus on the few products that have the potential for maximum impact. It then informs the most efficient path through design, development, and production.
Competitive Advantage
Your company's unique competitive advantage should be a huge lever, but it must be well-understood by your teams, regularly nurtured, and consistently exploited. Refreshing your perspective on what sets you apart from your competition could be a key next step in improving your organizational clarity, informing decision-making, and bolstering confidence.
Leadership
It's not enough to have strong employees. You also need capable, well-supported leaders with aligned objectives, streamlined plans, and an operating model that informs and empowers teams and individuals. An organizational assessment followed by leadership team development or targeted leadership coaching could be your next step. Perhaps, you need a seasoned expert to lead by example for a period of time to catalyze the required change, whether at the organizational or program level.
Following Your Lead
Together, we can build a plan to address the opportunities you've identified and point out additional levers to accelerate and amplify impact. Your plan may incorporate:
Product portfolio improvements
Modular architectures
Internal capability development
External partnerships
Product development process changes
Leadership development
Organizational design
To ensure success, Iconic Product Development Consulting will support you throughout the implementation process at any level you require.
Areas of Expertise
Strategy
Product/Portfolio
Product Architecture
Critical Capabilities
Process Optimization
Innovation & IP
Product Development
PD Budgeting/Financials
Organization & People
Org Design
Leadership Development
Hiring/Coaching/Mentoring
Engineering
Modular Platforms
Optimization-Driven Design
Design Engineering/DFM/DFA
Operations
Supplier Partnering
Cross-Functional Value Engineering
Other
M&A, Due Diligence Support
Board of Directors Interface
Investor Engagement
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“Vance has an ambitious and uniquely visionary eye for product development. He consistently challenges convention and pushes the boundaries of design, which is evident in the accomplishments he’s achieved throughout his career — including being an instrumental figure in taking LiveWire public. That kind of firsthand, high-stakes execution is something most entrepreneurs and business leaders only dream of, and it gives him a depth of insight you rarely find.”
– Auto OEM, Vehicle Development, Planning & Strategy