Bridge the Gap: Empower Your Cross-Functional Team with Quality During Design
Avoid false starts. Instead, get clarity and buy-in.
You're starting with a new product idea. You try to talk with your team, but there's challenges:
As a member of a cross-functional product development team, you bring invaluable knowledge and perspective – whether from marketing, sales, manufacturing, regulatory, or other functions.
But effective collaboration isn't always easy; communication can be challenging, and ensuring your insights influence design decisions from the start is crucial.
You want to better develop ideas before you get too far down the design path.
You want to bridge the gap, reduce inter-departmental friction, and ensure your team's collective knowledge leads to product success.
Achieving high-quality products and fostering better relationships across functions requires structured methods for knowledge sharing and gathering fact-based design inputs early.
This is where the ADEPT Team Framework and the Concept Space Model come in – and the book "Pierce the Design Fog" is your ultimate guide to putting these powerful frameworks into action together as a team.
Unlock Your Team's Collaborative Power
Seamless Collaboration
The ADEPT Team Framework provides a repeatable process for structured, purposeful team co-work sessions, helping your team move beyond typical meetings.
It ensures everyone has a clear understanding of the goals and provides a framework for sharing diverse viewpoints effectively. This leads to clearer handoffs and reduces friction.
Shared Understanding of User Experience
The Concept Space Model is a targeted tool used within these sessions to guide your team's exploration of the user experience – Benefits, Symptoms, and the Use Process.
By focusing discussions this way, your team builds a shared understanding of user needs and the concept, ensuring everyone is on the same page.
Your Input Shapes Design
Together, ADEPT and the Concept Space Model provide a system for the team to collect, examine, and prioritize ideas and knowledge.
This structured approach helps translate your valuable insights from various functions directly into actionable inputs that influence the technical design from the beginning, demonstrating how your input is valued and incorporated.
"Pierce the Design Fog": Your Team's Playbook for Innovation.
- The foundational principles of team-based concept development.
- Practical strategies for using the Concept Space Model and targeted templates with the ADEPT Framework.
- Actionable guidance on translating shared knowledge into concrete design inputs.
- Methods to work together that drives engineering design forward with more success.
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Podcasts for the Cross-Functional Team
Product Design from a Marketing Viewpoint, with Laura Krick (A Chat with Cross Functional Experts)
This interview focuses on product design from a marketing viewpoint, including sales and commercial operations. “A Talk with Cross Functional Experts” is a Quality during Design interview series. Our focus is speaking with people that are typically part of a cross-functional team for new product development. We discuss their viewpoints and perspectives regarding new products,…
Use Force Field Analysis to Understand Nuances
We can use a force field analysis to understand nuances or to get a handle on a change that involves many different people or departments.
Use Meetings to Add Productivity
We need our time to be productive, individually. We can use meetings to add productivity to our day, if done right.
Get clarity on goals with a continuum
Seeing if we have alignment on goals is easy if we gather the team and stakeholders for 10 minutes and use a continuum.
The Gifts Others Bring
What are the gifts others bring to new product development? We consider a mindset to bring design inputs into our designs from other people.
Challenges Getting Team Input in Concept Development
We summarize teamwork Design Engineers can use for concept development of a design. This is the final and 7th part of a podcast series.
Our Interview Series: A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts
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