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Overview

Innovation Spectrum works with companies to drive profitable results through

  • Product and Package Innovation and Development
  • Developing Critical Consumer and Technology Insights and Linkages
  • Technology Scouting©
  • Technology Reformatting©
  • Strategic Planning for Product and Package Development
  • Enhancing Organizational Innovation Effectiveness

Broad consumer product category experience

  • Fabric Care
  • Dish Care
  • DIY Home Care
  • Household Care
  • Personal Care
  • Medical Care
  • Food Products
  • Children & Adult Art & Stationery
  • Adhesives, Paints, and Inks

Extensive functional expertise and capabilities

  • Product & Package Innovation
  • Product & Package Development
  • Delivery System Development
  • Institutional Innovation
  • Consumer Understanding
  • Cost Savings/Profitability
  • R&D Effectiveness
  • Technology Forecasting
  • New Product Processes/Systems
  • R&D Project Portfolio Development
  • Intellectual Property Strategy
  • Technology Monitoring

Proven track record

  • Successful, innovative new products and packages
  • Profit enhancing initiatives
  • Refining technology into superior new products and new businesses
  • Identifying new consumer-based product and package opportunities
  • Integrating innovation into both established and new businesses
  • Establishing profitable strategic alliances

 

Key Capabilities

Product and Package Innovation and Development

  • Over 50 years experience developing successful consumer products across many broad product platforms including household care, personal care, food, art & stationery, DIY home improvement, and medical care.
  • Strong technology leaders in world class consumer product companies. Responsible for setting new product and technology direction for growth strategies.
  • Focused program and project delivery. Delivered over 70 new growth initiatives to the marketplace providing over $1 Billion in revenue.
  • Responsible for the issuance of over 50 patents.

Product and Package Optimization

  • Product and Package Improvement. Delivered product and package improvements that corrected consumer issues, established product superiority and enhanced usage.
  • Cost Savings. Delivered over $60 million in cost savings without denigrating quality or consumer acceptance.

Consumer Insight Generation and Leverage

  • Ability to develop and leverage consumer insights to drive product and package development. Delivered step change results for Fortune 500 companies.
  • Translation of consumer wants and needs into technical requirements/specifications for product and package development. Delivered insights that accelerated new product development timetables and exceeded performance objectives.
  • Applied Technology Forecasting Techniques to consumer solutions to develop multi-million dollar new business platforms.

Broad Consumer Product Category Knowledge

  • Household Care, Personal Care, Food, Art & Stationery. Broad base allows Innovation Spectrum to take your company in new innovative directions.
  • Reformatting of technology across product categories to deliver innovation. Extensive knowledge of technologies across a broad range of disparate industries provides creative cross-fertilization and bundling of technologies to create unique solutions.

 

Services Provided

Product and Package Innovation and Development

  • From conceptualization through commercialization

Developing Critical Consumer and Technology Insights and Linkages

  • Development and integration of critical consumer and technical insights necessary to drive product innovation and superior product and package development
  • Consumer and Technology Trend Forecasting

Technology Scouting©

Technology Reformatting©

Strategic Planning for Product and Package Development

  • Project Portfolio development and management
  • Intellectual Property strategy
  • Marketplace and Industry analyses
  • Strategic Technology Partners identification
  • Technology Monitoring and Threat Analysis

Enhancing Organizational Innovation Effectiveness

  • Identifying and implementing Best Practices
  • Working with organizations to become more consumer focused
  • Working with organizations to identify external opportunities
  • Tools and processes to enhance innovation and new product development success rates
  • Infrastructure development

 

Summary

Innovation Spectrum offers a number of services to help your company prosper:

  • Product and Package Innovation and Development
  • Consumer and Technology Insights and Linkages
  • Strategic Planning for Product and Package
  • Enhancing Organizational Innovation Effectiveness
  • Technology Scouting©
  • Technology Reformatting©
  • Disruptive Challenges©

Principals

Rick Kaiser
1082 Kressler
Road
Allentown, PA 18103

ph 610-435-8776
fx 610-435-9298
rick@innovationspectrum.com

Frank Schiro
3495 Clay Road
Doylestown, PA 18901
ph 215.794.2051
frank@innovationspectrum.com