Outsourced Product Development
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In Amritt’s experience, the sophistication and trustworthiness of outsourced product development partners can be highly variable. Many well-known vendors who claim to be qualified at product-oriented outsourcing have limited skills outside of IT and project work. Capable outsourced product development vendors are often understaffed, or unable to hire, train and retain new staff to cope with escalating demand. We help match client needs with current and future vendor capabilities.
Whether it’s Electronics City in Bangalore or Zhongguancun in Beijing, we have evaluated vendors and initiatives for our Western clients there. We have been from Pune to Pudong, Noida to Nanjing, and we will go from Gurgaon to Guangzhou for our clients. And we’ve found good outsourced product development centers in out of the way places in Western China, Eastern India, in the Ukraine, sometimes even in Canada. We are guides and advisors as our clients extend distributed development, co-innovation and extended engineering to its limits.
It often makes sense to outsource sustaining engineering for an existing product. In response to client requests, we’ve also successfully enabled outsourcing original product development; we have found capable partners who had very specific domain experience in technologies that were unfamiliar to our clients.
In other situations, it makes sense to outsource a particular function, such as unit testing, or finite element analysis, or chip verification, or clinical trials to a product development partners. We help our clients find and develop such vendors. We also help you to extend the vendor’s capabilities.
Clients who seek our expertise in guiding their outsource product development efforts range from Global 2000 corporations, to emerging companies and venture-funded startups.
We can benchmark the supplier’s performance relating to their skills, staffing, local reputation, management capability, and financial wherewithal. We can develop offshore ecosystems of mutually cooperative suppliers for clients and this can include not only service companies but also manufacturing operations and materials suppliers. We can extend this ecosystem to research partners who bring in local intellectual property or the ability to do contract or sponsored research.
Clients retain Amritt for services such as:
- Identification, qualification and selection of R&D suppliers
- Structuring execution plans with such outsource suppliers
- Providing monitoring and corrective action guidance for supplier milestones and deliverables
- Ongoing performance improvement and long term planning expertise
We are the experts improving your success with outsourced product development, with outsourced global research and with your in-house offshore research and development as part of our global innovation practice. Contact us to determine how we can help.
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Management Roundtable Audio Sessions - Gunjan Bagla discusses 10 mistakes in outsourcing product development.
Product Development and Management Association - The PDMA is the premier global advocate for product development /management
Outsource Product Development - Time and Reasons - Ezine Article looks at When does outsource product development make sense?
