Client Success Stories
| The results for these
companies speak for temselves. These technology-driven
companies tell you how QRPD:
"Quality Rapid Product Development"
reduced their product development time by at least 50%: |
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Niles Audio
At Niles Audio, a leading in-home entertainment manufacturer
based in Miami, Florida, Vice President of Sales Frank Stern
reports: "From the time we convened and said, 'let's make
a keypad,' to the time we shipped was seven months. If we had
done it the old way it would have taken a year and half."
The first Niles Audio product born of QRPD,
the "Intellipad", won best product of the year at
the CEDIA show, and greatly exceeded sales forecasts for the
next three years. Read Full Niles
Audio Success Story >
Tellium, Inc.
Tellium announced in April 1999 it's next-generation Aurora
Optical Switch at the SuperComm show in Atlanta, Georgia and
on June 8 signed a multi-year $250 million agreement with Dynegy
for the delivery of the first intelligent optical switching
network. This success only came as a result of having introduced
QRPD
training, facilitated, and coaching in January of that year.
Ed Glassmeyer, founding general partner of the venture capital
firm Oak Investments, the leading financial partner for the
Tellium start-up, had the foresight to suggest to the company
that it bring in the QRPD
methodology and a qualified QRPD
consultant. Read Full Tellium Success
Story >
Semiconductor Equipment Company
A well-known semiconductor equipment company had struggled for
a couple of years with problems including excess particle damage
on its machine that it sold for $1.5 million used for chemical
vapor deposition on wafers. With sales floundering and major
customers wishing to jump ship, the company issued a do or die
edict to that division in the fall of 1998. That's when Rick,
the director of Engineering, and General Manager of the PCVD
Division decided to bring in QRPD. In 60 days nothing short
of a miracle transpired. The COO, or Chief Operating Officer,
of this 4000-person company later said that in those 60 days
more technical progress was made on the development of that
machine than in the two prior years. Read
Full Semiconductor Equipment Company Success Story >
A Slick Software Miracle Story at a Major International
Oil Company
In the IT department a time-bomb was ticking. The members of
the project team for the division's critical data warehouse
initiative was 6 months into a 9 month project--and the team
was still mired in gathering customer requirements. This project
was critical to delivering performance insights to the division's
business analysts. With the right information, these analysts
would be able to make better pricing decisions that could result
in millions of additional dollars in revenue; and pinpoint the
sources of customer shipment issues quickly to reduce lost revenue
and costs associated with their correction. The prospects were
grim for delivering these benefits on time. Read
Full Oil Company Success Story >
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