Comprehensive Product Management
KRG provides solutions that help retail and service clients develop, learn, optimize, and operate. KRG’s services are offered in two disciplines. First, we provide management consulting services, advising clients on a wide range of strategic decisions and guiding the implementations of those decisions. Alternatively, KRG excels at parachuting into any point in their client’s product lifecycle, from concept through replacement, instantly accelerating product development and deployment.
Advisory Services
KRG management consulting creates value for clients by optimizing business performance. Working with top management, we utilize our deep functional expertise in strategy, analytics, and operational excellence to develop and implement recommendations that deliver tangible, sustainable results. KRG’s offerings include:
Interim executive services
Data-driven business process analysis
Supply chain, transportation, logistics and manufacturing optimization
Retail technology and software development
Data science implementations
Product Lifecycle Management
KRG provides in-depth expertise for all phases of product lifecycle management for automated interactive solutions. Using our integrated and collaborative approach, we develop your automation concept at any point in its lifecycle. From an idea on a napkin to producing a scaled go-to market solution, KRG’s proven process and team of automation experts can rapidly get your solution to the next phase and beyond. KRG’s expertise in the five phases of product development:
Concept & Design
Ideation to develop and validate a product concept based on market, customer, and competitor analysis, and then convert concept into a design:
Discovery and clarification to define product requirements
Concept ideation
Concept design and iterative refinement
Market research validation
Certification and regulatory compliance review
Intellectual property and patent review
Production & Launch
Finalizing the design based on feedback from the pilot to produce a market-ready version, followed by manufacturing and scaled product launch:
Design for manufacturing and assembly (DFMA)
Quality and performance testing standards
RFP and selection for contract manufacturing services
Manufacturing production planning and liaison services
Certification testing and maintenance
Product launch, including deployment and supporting supply chain
Development
Iterative building, testing, and enhancing the design to achieve desired performance specifications, in preparation for production manufacturing:
Software development and integration
Component selection and supplier sourcing
Acceptance testing criteria definition
Alpha prototype manufacturing, assembly, and lab testing
Design enhancement based on analysis of test results
Beta prototype build and controlled pilot testing
Product network system infrastructure design
IP and patent development and filings
Service & Support
Additional services required to implement and sustain successful operation of units in the field:
Site selection and acquisition services
Supply chain planning and management
Deployment and installation services
Field support and maintenance services
Performance management analytics: design, develop, deploy and manage reporting
Network operating center services
Retirement
Planning and implementing the appropriate steps to remove a product from the market:
Project management for product sunset
Transition to updated product
Captured learnings to incorporate into future product designs
Plan and communicate end-of-life timeline and supporting processes
Product deconstruction, refurbishment, or disposal