Email Updates

Archive for the ‘Strategic innovation’ Category

Integrating QbD into Your PDP

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Cindi Wilson of Total Flow Limited highlights the benefits and challenges of implementing and sustaining Quality by Design (QbD). Her solution is a visual flow embedded into your Product Development Process (PDP).

Quality & QbD

Quality by Design (QbD) is an industry keyword these days – spoken equally with reverence and frustration by those trying to understand how to implement it. QbD is a system of tools that assures quality is built into the design throughout the process, rather than inspecting it in, testing it in, or bearing costly changes to get it right after the fact. Read More

Seizing the Opportunity for Creative Destruction – Food & Drinks

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

The current economic crisis has brought things to a head in several industries, especially in developed economies.

Factors like market saturation, ageing and static populations, threat of low cost competition from emerging economies etc. are not completely new and their march has continued for the past several years. However, the crisis has brutally demolished any hopes of a gradual change and time to adjust to the new landscape.

Consumer and Govt spending is likely to remain under pressure for the foreseeable future and therefore demand for better value will be widespread and remain intense. Read More