Product and Process Innovation, Inc.

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PPI provides consulting services on project management, process management, and innovation. A normal PPI consultancy starts with PPI conducting an evaluation of current business practices and processes. This evaluation often entails comparing the processes to industry standards or benchmarks. An improvement path is selected based upon the client's strategy and business environment. Then the appropriate projects, training, and systems needed to progress down the path are identified.

Business improvement and changes are usually implemented through projects. When providing project management consulting, an evaluation of the current business maturity using a Capability Maturity Model is used to determine the current state of the business' project management methodology and the appropriate improvement path. When conducting New Product Development project management consultancy, PPI uses a scorecard for evaluating current business practices. The scorecard has been developed based upon the PMI Project Management Body of Knowledge and industry best practices for product development. PPI has assisted in the establishment of Project Management Offices (PMO). In establishing these, business practices and processes are changed or introduced that are compatible with the corporate philosophy of project management. All project management consulting is consistent with the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).

Excellent process management is a core competency for sustained business performance and improvement. Whether the process is taking an order, manufacturing a product, conducting administrative processes, or any other business process, process management is needed to sustain the business. PPI's process management consulting focuses on understanding the business process of interest through process mapping, value stream mapping or value creation mapping. With the process understood, improvements are made at the required points and measurements are established to provide continuous real-time information on the process health. Depending upon the nature of the process, techniques such as Lean Manufacturing, Advanced Problem Solving, Six Sigma, Re-engineering or Constraint management are applied.

Since most improvement efforts require some level of organizational change, change management and leadership issues are typically addressed. The cycle of change and situational leadership are used to identify the organizational and personal issues that are essential to a successful implementation of the new initiative or product.

Consulting engagements can be contracted for either by the project or on a time and material basis. Recent consulting clients include Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Instrumentation Laboratories, Kaman Aerospace, Dominion Power, NSTAR, General Electric, and Harvard Clinical Research Institute - a division of Harvard Medical School.