Innovation Consulting Firm
As the race for new products and services is more competitive than ever, we are transforming our customers’ innovation ability and the efficiency of their R&D. KEPLER provides consulting expertise oriented towards operations, able to answer the challenges of companies seeking efficiency in their R&D. KEPLER Innovation Consulting Firm brings personalized expertise based on the best practices.
Our
Commitment
- Defining a relevant innovation model
- Understanding the megatrends that drive innovation
- Betting on the most promising technologies
- Building an ecosystem boosting innovation
- Value Chain Mapping and Market Analysis
- Generation of Innovation Ideas / Feeding Process
- Innovation Model: Process, Governance, Tools
- Decision Criteria to Guide Research and Technology Topics
- Open Innovation: Organization and Support for Initiatives
Inventing the Business of Tomorrow
- Choosing the Right Projects / Doing the Projects Right
- “Make or buy” for Product Development
- Optimizing Design and Standardizing Developments
- Leveraging R&D Data for Greater Efficiency
- Anticipating Risks and Manage the Product Lifecycle
- Measuring Innovation Performance
- Benchmark and Roundtables on Good R&D Practices
- R&I Projects & Portfolio Management
- Redesign-to-Cost and Value Analysis
- Design and Support of R&D Transformation Projects: Digitization, Technology Standardization, Improvement of Sustainability, …
- R&D Supply Chain Optimization (contract manufacturing…)
- Innovation Funding
Increasing the ROI of R&I
- Improving Innovation and R&D Time-To-Market
- Adapting to Rapid Changes in the Market
- Bringing Agility in Project Management
- Delivering Atypical Projects and Anticipating their Risks
- Intensifying collaboration with the Main R&D Interfaces
- Project Management Office for Complex Projects
- Agile Methodologies on Product Development
- Lean Engineering and Efficiency of Development Processes
- Optimization of Interfaces: from Research to Development and from Development to Industrial
Accelerating Time-to-Market
- Improving the Efficiency of R&D Organizations
- Defining Global Footprint Strategies
- Empowering R&D Staff
- Anticipating and Maximizing the Use of Talents and Expertise
- Managing Change within Teams
- R&D Re-Organization: Diagnosis, Design, Deployment
- R&D Footprint Design
- Talent Development Plan
- Expertise Channels Plan
Engaging the R&D Community
- Aligning R&D and Innovation strategy with the company’s CSR commitments
- Identifying priority levers by modeling environmental and economic issues
- Integrating CSR into the development strategy of future products
- Accelerating eco-design to meet new market expectations
- Engaging teams in the sustainable R&D and innovation transformation
- Roadmap for the sustainable transition of R&D
- Management of the R&D sustainable transition program
- Gap Analysis on good eco-design practices
- End-to-end eco-design program
- Operational management of sustainable breakthrough innovation projects
Innovating Sustainably
Our
Consulting Approach
Innovation actively contributes to the development of the company. To create a competitive and sustainable advantage, it is necessary to establish an ecosystem that fosters the emergence of the products and services of tomorrow. KEPLER provides consulting expertise very oriented towards operations, which supports our ability to respond to the challenges of companies seeking efficiency in their R&D.
- An exclusive focus on high impact challenges related to the strategy and management of innovation and the performance of R&D organizations
- Added value enhanced by cross-fertilization practices in multiple sectors and frequent benchmarks fueling the diagnosis
- Strategic analysis with decision-makers to define their priorities and objectives
- Educational approach with operational teams: co-design of solutions for faster implementation
- Operational reinforcement thanks to Kepler’s expertise in operations, supply chain, and purchasing
- Skills, tools and digital partners to accelerate the transformation of innovation and R&D activities
- Agile coaches
- Senior advisors, former VP R&D, representing different business sectors and directly involved in our projects for their functional / sector expertise
- Long-term and “tailor-made” approach to customer relations and methodologies
- Great flexibility in project management and working methods to adapt to client / team constraints
- No costly over-engineering in the way we deliver our projects
Our Innovation Expertise Leaders
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