New Product Development Delivery

Deliver new product development on time and with a clear sales forecast. Weed out weak products with Stage Gated Plans. Keep progress & metrics visible on Project Dashboard with rollup to Portfolio dashboard. Available for Smartsheet Core or Control Center.

Easy and clear management of new product development at a product and portfolio level

Make new product development easier with a purpose-built solution. Stage gated Project Plans highlight launch readiness. Confidently track Sales Forecast to ensure launch of winning products. Automated reporting gives visibility across the Portfolio.

Project Dashboard

View key metrics and progression of the project in one place. Surfacing key information from each of the project sheets, the Project Dashboard is the real time status update that every project needs. Hosting links to each Smartsheet used in the project, it enables the team to navigate quickly & easily to the sheet they require. The dashboard is configured for the project to also include a RAID and Weekly Update sheets.

Project Plan

Set plan timings and assign task within each stage of the project. Track progression on tasks and stages using to ensure product launch on time.  
The plan has a range of pre-built features to make planning and tracking easy: automated status coding based on dates and completion; optional milestone designation; critical path task flagging; live plan vs original plan time variance calculation.

Sales Tracking & Forecast

Be confident that in your sales in the market by recording all customer feedback and purchase commitments in one sheet.  
Built in calculation & automations produce a live forecast for launch and an estimated sales margin. As well as highlighting which step of the sale process each customer is at, an automation collates customers by those steps for display on the project dashboard.

Portfolio Dashboard

Aimed at senior leaders and managers, this dashboard automatically assembles the key information and metrics from every live project in one place, with the ability to drill down into individual projects for more detail. Updated in real time, this ensures that a live overview of the portfolio of projects is available 24/7. Reduces the time and effort spent on reporting, so the team can get on with their real job of launching great products.

Deliver new products on time, with a clear sales forecast in a purpose-built solution. Track product readiness to launch, sale forecast and customer commitment across products. Portfolio reporting provides visibility of key decision-making information.

Key Features

 

How to get it:

Contact Cheetah Transformation for the New Product Development Delivery solution. This solution is available to purchase as seen or customised to your organisation’s specific requirements. It can be used as the basis of Smartsheet Control Center configuration, but you will need to have/purchase Smartsheet Control Center, with which we can assist. Cheetah Transformation is available for consulting on New Product Development processes and ways of working.