Being cross functional is one of the keys to success for any R&D / NPI team. Most consumer product business value streams flow through different functions and traditional, departmental structures often slows down the flow. This can result in delays and inefficiencies from:
- Poorly executed handover’s
- Lack of ownership for parts of the value stream
- Poorly defined responsibilities
- Ineffective performance management.
BSM has an impressive track record in establishing and implementing high performing cross functional teams in consumer product organisations in R&D / NPI.
Specifically BSM will:
- Establish and support new teams
- Re-energise teams who have become unfocussed, de-motivated and complacent
- Assist with team member and team leader selection
- Assess team members key strengths and areas for development
- Provide team members with the skills necessary to achieve optimum performance
- Define and document individuals’ roles and responsibilities
- Facilitate the teams early meetings
- Help teams to set and achieve objectives clearly aligned to business goals
- Help teams to successfully manage projects
- Design templates, spreadsheets, reports, display boards, etc. to help teams to become more metric focused
- Significantly improve the measurable performance of the team.