Human capital is the most valuable resource in your organization. Are you confident that technologists are motivated, trained and managed to operate at peak performance? Could your business quickly recover from a critical technology resource loss?

StreamlinedE offers quantitative tools, processes and skills to evaluate and provide real-time visibility to your technical leadership strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and white spaces

Technologist personal development plans (PDP’s) are unique. Great PDP’s focus on continued technical, project and leadership education. Collective plans keep your organization at the forefront of new technologies and science, while ensuring measurable and relevant developments which benefit individuals

Our process helps align individual objectives with business needs, providing a framework for measuring goal achievement and assessing individual performance while enhancing technologist skills

Is world-class innovation generated by R&D departments? Most technologists and engineers are no better idea generators than any other employee! We create healthy innovation cultures that encourage innovation by educating and supporting your entire work-force to become innovators

Many excellent tools exist to evaluate soft team-skills i.e., Thomas's PPA, but assessing hard-skills for technologists using quantitative techniques are more difficult? A mechanical engineer may have great electrical skills, but how good are their project management or Design of Experiments (DOE)?

Our tools provide unbiased assessments of technical hard skills, which include and compare self-assessments to team/peer evaluations

Knowing a team’s technical skills is useful, but matching these to current and future project/product requirements provides planning essential information and competitive advantage

Our assessment methods, analyze current and future project needs, quantifying these by experience. Match skills requirements to a skills audit, enables project scheduling and future team whitespaces/hires to be predicted and planned effectively

SWOT analyses have formed the basis of critical Go-No-Go business decisions over the past four decades, though prioritizing or quantifying SWOT outcomes is often difficult and nebulous

Our Team and product SWOT processes offer a robust family of tools to value and rank identified targets. Using quantitative, as opposed to qualitative methods, ensures resource or activity alignment can be valued and prioritized from highest to lowest based on measurable factors such as time, complexity and expected investments

The largest reasons for innovation failure are a lack of delivery-on-time, over-estimating deliverables and cost overruns. Improving technologists’ ability to consistently and accurately estimate ranges for such variables, gives your business a competitive advantage for successful new product launches

Our Standardized/calibrated estimator training, helps technology teams improve estimating unknown information, identify creative methods to measure difficult problems and select relevant measurements to quickly reduce uncertainty

Most engineers, scientists and some managers have never been taught, or had any opportunity to learn valuation strategies for new product development and R&D projects. These issues are compounded when senior management are trying to compare and prioritize different technical projects

Our introductory training teaches basic financial valuation methods. Sections cover, what are, and how NPV models can be applied to technical project forecasting. How to partner with marketing to predict market size and forecast expected shares for estimating opportunity. How to work with finance and multi-disciplined teams to quantify and agree investment ranges, risk and to calculate opportunity costs. Finally, how to use simple tools to estimate NPV ranges with standard Monte-Carlo templates, then compare and rank competing projects

Stage Gate project management has been used for over 60 years. While Agile methods have become the new buzz, lack of formal planning and an inability to integrate complex and novel requirements means Agile is typically not appropriate for non-software product developments

Our training teaches traditional phases and gates, adding responsive and iterative components to accelerate testing/tasking, between gates. We cover fundamentals of the Stage Gate process, how to write measurable concepts and defined milestones. We introduce gate phases and reviews, providing templates for different phase review requirements. After a mock review, we cover common review problems and analyze solutions

Keeping complex project tasking and critical milestones ahead of schedule and free of bottlenecks is essential to streamlining innovation. Stand-up meetings are an awesome tool for this task, but challenges are often experienced when facilitating, minuting, prioritizing and planning contingencies

Our Stand-Up meeting training targets Stage Gate type projects where work structures are broken into tasks. We focus on your organizations correct frequency for 15-minute stand-up meetings, effective facilitation, work on problems, eliminating bottlenecks and ensuring critical milestones stay on-time and have robust contingency plans

Great innovation organizations require top performing technical teams. Inclusive interviewing and majority hiring practices have consistently been shown to result in better hires

Our Interview training programs have been specially tailored to improve technologists hiring technologists. StreamlinedE provides quantitative assessments, where teams work together to divide, assess and make hiring decisions on candidates as a group

Our world is full of uncertainty, nowhere is this more evident than in R&D and new product development. Often, we are overly confident about things we don’t know and underestimate what we do

This course is for scientists with basic knowledge of statistics to enable measurements that remove bias and quickly reduce uncertainty to facilitate Go-No-Go project decisions. During a training day, we provide simple tools to estimate uncertainty, tests for relevance and what is/is not known, measures for different types of uncertainty and methods to improve both precision and trueness

Technical Big Bet Initiatives (TBBI’s) are large technology, engineering or innovation projects that typically utilize 20-50% of a R&D or engineering teams’ resource for 12 months+. Launches always require significant capital investment, strategic management and have high components of risk. Over 90% of all TBBI’s end, or are killed generating negative returns!

Our expertise ensures your organization has the right data and facilitates analyses to begin, or not, a TBBI. Always taking a why-keep-it-alive approach to TBBI’s. Why and how TBBI’s are managed differently from normal projects. We provide assistance following healthy practices, avoiding common pitfalls and quantitative tools for defining critical kill/continue milestones

War Rooms are excellent tools for managing large complex priority projects or TBBI’s. Derived from Churchill’s approach, a war room is a mindset, team and space, organized to manage many fast-moving components of large complex projects, to track and align resources, identify bottlenecks and mediate potential critical issues before they cause delays or disasters

StreamlinedE experts have over 15 years’ experience of planning and project war-room execution, requiring integration of excellent project management, phased reviews, resource balancing and scheduling, contingency planning and technical issue forecasting. Let us assist in setting up and facilitating your most important projects for successful launches and delivery on-time

Effective facilitators ensure reviews, technical strategy development, brainstorming and your technology team offsites run smoothly and achieve required goals. An impartial/unbiased technically trained facilitator removes meeting-flow, peace-keeping timing and other admin burdens from internal technical leaders and technologists, so they can focus on participating in the meeting itself

Our experienced facilitators are technologists who have over 35 years driving effective meeting outcomes, assisting in meeting planning, style generation and goal setting. We take care of all meeting admin, following agendas, staying focused and on time; allowing you and the team to achieve set goals

Failure goes hand-in-hand with success, both are healthy components of innovation and there are many reasons why projects get killed. While lessons learned assessments should be run on recently launched large projects/products, these assessments are essential after any significant size killed project

Failure to launch is not a failure if underpinning reasons are captured, quantified and actions are taken to prevent repeating similar mistakes. Our lessons learned processes/templates offer effective tools for quantifying what when right and wrong and why they were unforeseen or unexpected. Assessments conclude by implementing action procedures to include identified benefits and test future projects for similar issues

Presenting complex technical projects or achievements in white papers, at seminars, conferences and to customers is essential to leading technical organizations enhancing their reputation, competitive advantage and market share

Our experts and technical writers are practiced in simplifying complex issues and developing technical, content enhanced, visually pleasing papers and presentations with all essential and relevant content, freeing your team to continue focusing on improving your technology