Electronic Manufacturing Company from the Renewable Energy Industry
 
British oil and gas company Renewable Energy portfolio company Manufacturer of solar battery storage for private and commercial use, operator of Virtual Power Plant
 
Identified Intervention Areas

• Lack of alignment between R&D activities and corporate strategy

• Significant delays in new product development

• Negative impact on top-line due to delayed market launches

• Excessive country-specific product variants

• Uncontrolled variety of changes with cost-driving effects

• Insufficient service offerings despite high complexity

• Inefficient resource allocation in distributed development locations

• Fragmented development competencies without global governance

• Lack of supply chain integration into the development process

• High dependency on external service providers

• Absence of first-time-right approach in product development
   

Implemented Measures

• Implementation of global R&D governance for Europe, USA, and Australia

• Introduction of simultaneous engineering

• Implementation of a systematic change management process

• Establishment of global R&D competence clusters with agile project management

• Redesign of the product development process with target costing

• Integration of marketing, development partners, and supply chain

• Standardization of international critical service requirements

• Transformation to a first-time-right development approach

• Development of scalable functional modules through platform strategy

• Implementation of systems engineering

• Introduction of IT-supported retrograde resource planning

• Integration of Global Tech and Advanced Data Analytics
   

Results

• Significant improvement in development schedule adherence

• Successful implementation of a global platform strategy

• Establishment of an effective One-Global-Team

• Transformation to process-oriented cluster structure

• Improved quality and cost efficiency

• Increased customer satisfaction through integrated services

• Ensuring design-to-cost product availability

• Strategy-compliant alignment of all R&D activities

• Optimized resource utilization through competence clusters

• Reduced complexity through standardized functional modules
   

Applied Competencies

• Extensive experience in transforming global R&D organizations

• Expertise in implementing agile development methods

• Profound knowledge in systems engineering and platform strategies

• Proven success in global change management

• Experience in integrating distributed development locations

• Competence in developing and implementing target costing

• Ability to orchestrate complex stakeholder landscapes

• Expertise in implementing design-to-cost processes

• Experience with IT-supported resource planning systems

• Intercultural leadership competence for global teams