LEQ Case Study: Leading Innovation
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Client
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Global Medical Products Company
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Consulting Engagement
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Consulting for Leading Innovation
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Client Goals
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Accelerate commercial success of new technologies and products
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LEQ Deliverables
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Conducted structured interviews to seek input from corporate leaders and functional experts across disciplines on company-wide business needs, competitiveness of business needs, competitiveness of product categories, organizational problems, process issues and expectations
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Analyzed interview findings and distilled from the diversity of perspectives:
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Key strategic and operating issues
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Challenges and opportunities
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Areas of disagreement
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Platform for common ground
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Established among members of the senior leadership team agreement on innovation goals and corporate funding of priorities
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Facilitated strategic offsite for cross-functional management team accountable for delivering new technologies and products
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Collaborated with Director of R&D on innovation strategy and new organization structure needed to solve operations problems and to execute the new innovation strategy
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Results
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Gained unanimous support for proposed innovation goals, strategies, organization structure and execution plan
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Funding was approved to implement solutions and the innovation strategy
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Management of functional teams immediately applied more rigorous investigation, planning, project management and collaboration
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Client praised the process and outcomes of the consulting engagement
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