Innovation Consulting Firm

Our
Commitment

Defining a relevant innovation model
Understanding the megatrends that drive innovation
Betting on the most promising technologies
Building an ecosystem boosting innovation

Value Chain Mapping and Market Analysis
Generation of Innovation Ideas / Feeding Process
Innovation Model: Process, Governance, Tools
Decision Criteria to Guide Research and Technology Topics
Open Innovation: Organization and Support for Initiatives

Inventing the Business of Tomorrow

Choosing the Right Projects / Doing the Projects Right
“Make or buy” for Product Development
Optimizing Design and Standardizing Developments
Leveraging R&D Data for Greater Efficiency
Anticipating Risks and Manage the Product Lifecycle
Measuring Innovation Performance

Benchmark and Roundtables on Good R&D Practices
R&I Projects & Portfolio Management
Redesign-to-Cost and Value Analysis
Design and Support of R&D Transformation Projects: Digitization, Technology Standardization, Improvement of Sustainability, …
R&D Supply Chain Optimization (contract manufacturing…)
Innovation Funding

Increasing the ROI of R&I

Improving Innovation and R&D Time-To-Market
Adapting to Rapid Changes in the Market
Bringing Agility in Project Management
Delivering Atypical Projects and Anticipating their Risks
Intensifying collaboration with the Main R&D Interfaces

Project Management Office for Complex Projects
Agile Methodologies on Product Development
Lean Engineering and Efficiency of Development Processes
Optimization of Interfaces: from Research to Development and from Development to Industrial

Accelerating Time-to-Market

Improving the Efficiency of R&D Organizations
Defining Global Footprint Strategies
Empowering R&D Staff
Anticipating and Maximizing the Use of Talents and Expertise
Managing Change within Teams

R&D Re-Organization: Diagnosis, Design, Deployment
R&D Footprint Design
Talent Development Plan
Expertise Channels Plan

Engaging the R&D Community

Aligning R&D and Innovation strategy with the company’s CSR commitments
Identifying priority levers by modeling environmental and economic issues
Integrating CSR into the development strategy of future products
Accelerating eco-design to meet new market expectations
Engaging teams in the sustainable R&D and innovation transformation

Roadmap for the sustainable transition of R&D
Management of the R&D sustainable transition program
Gap Analysis on good eco-design practices
End-to-end eco-design program
Operational management of sustainable breakthrough innovation projects

Innovating Sustainably

Our
Consulting Approach

Innovation actively contributes to the development of the company. To create a competitive and sustainable advantage, it is necessary to establish an ecosystem that fosters the emergence of the products and services of tomorrow. KEPLER provides consulting expertise very oriented towards operations, which supports our ability to respond to the challenges of companies seeking efficiency in their R&D.

An exclusive focus on high impact challenges related to the strategy and management of innovation and the performance of R&D organizations
Added value enhanced by cross-fertilization practices in multiple sectors and frequent benchmarks fueling the diagnosis

Strategic analysis with decision-makers to define their priorities and objectives
Educational approach with operational teams: co-design of solutions for faster implementation
Operational reinforcement thanks to Kepler’s expertise in operations, supply chain, and purchasing

Skills, tools and digital partners to accelerate the transformation of innovation and R&D activities
Agile coaches
Senior advisors, former VP R&D, representing different business sectors and directly involved in our projects for their functional / sector expertise

Long-term and “tailor-made” approach to customer relations and methodologies
- Great flexibility in project management and working methods to adapt to client / team constraints
- No costly over-engineering in the way we deliver our projects

Innovation Consulting Business Cases

Innovation Consulting Automotive

Redesigning the Acquisition Process and Tools for a Tier 1 Automotive Supplier to Enhance Competitiveness in RFQ

Duration: 6 months

Innovation Consulting Automotive

Developing Efficiency: Lean Engineering Transformation for a Leading Tier-1 Automotive Supplier

Duration: 3 months

Innovation Consulting Cosmetics

Developing a Group-Wide Strategy for Implementing Sustainable Packaging Objectives for a Global Cosmetics Leader

Duration: 5 months

Innovation Consulting Automotive

New Business Factory: from catching opportunities to Business Experimentation

Duration: 12 months

Innovation Consulting Cosmetics

Designing and Implementing a New Organization for the Knowledge of Competitive Environment Activities of a Cosmetics Leader

Duration: 6 months

Innovation Consulting Agrifood

Eco-Design Transformation: Implementing a Sustainable “Product Development & Innovation” Process and Tool for an Agrifood Industry French Leader

Duration: 8 months

Innovation Consulting Cosmetics

Simplifying the Formula Development of a Cosmetics Leader

Duration: Long Term Program

Innovation Consulting Automotive

Robustifying the Products Development from Exploration to Standardization of a Mobility Start-up

Duration: 7 months

Innovation Consulting Automotive

Reinforcing the Transformation Roadmap Monitoring of a European Leader in the Automotive Industry

Duration: 15 months

Innovation Consulting Automotive

Boosting the Innovation Model of an Automotive Equipment Manufacturer to Keep his Market Leader Position

Duration: 12 months

KEPLER Innovation Consulting Fundamentals

Definition of innovation models

Despite the occasional successes of a few innovative projects, revenue from “disrupted” products or services is insufficient for the General Management. From this perspective, it is strategic to reinvent the company’s innovation model in order to strongly contribute to its growth.

R&D and Innovation Projects Portfolio Management

Focusing teams on the most relevant projects and accelerating the marketing of new products or services is an essential challenge for the R&D and Innovation Departments. Portfolio management responds to this problem by making it possible to dynamically select projects that meet the strategy, taking into account the availability of design resources which are by definition limited.

Lean Engineering

In terms of R&D scope, a Lean engineering project has a common objective to eliminate waste from the upstream design of a solution, through t its mass production. KEPLER Innovation Consulting Firm’s “fast-track” approach, capitalizing on the complementary expertise of our Innovation and Operations practices, aims to reduce the time required to materialize the gains by targeting the subjects on which the teams waste the most time and resources.

Optimization of New Product Development Processes

Innovation processes are not always sufficiently adapted to meet the Company’s Quality / Cost / Time requirements. On the strength of our benchmarks in sectors at the forefront of innovation, we revisit the processes throughout the development/industrialization cycle (definition of objectives, feasibility, design validation, product/process validation, standardization). Roles and responsibilities are clearly defined, as are synchronization and multi-business interfaces. Tools and methodologies are also offered to facilitate collaborative work and make the development of new products and services more agile.

Design at Cost Objective: Functional Analysis / Value Analysis

Functional analysis / value analysis remains an essential part of technical and economic optimization in order to achieve what is necessary. Our teams deploy the methodology to our customers in a multi-business logic, relying on our internal KEPLER experts but also external resources: architect, an engineering firm, suppliers …

Digital and AI. will revolutionize the daily life of R&D and innovation teams in the coming years. On the one hand by being at the heart of disruptive innovation issues in a large number of sectors and on the other hand by radically transforming the practices of R&D teams to improve performance and efficiency of developments.

Our Innovation Expertise Leaders

Julien Besse

Partner

Julien graduated from both École Centrale de Nantes as an engineer and HEC Business School, before joining Thales Research & Development management teams. He then dedicated himself to…

Julien Besse

Julien Besse

Partner

Julien graduated from both École Centrale de Nantes as an engineer and HEC Business School, before joining Thales Research & Development management teams. He then dedicated himself to operational consulting. Partner at KEPLER, he is in charge of the Innovation Practice where he specializes in wide range of sectors : Cosmetics, Agrifood, Chemicals, Aeronautics and Automotive.
Sebastien Grilli

Partner

Sebastien graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE). He has over 20 years of experience in Management and Organizational consulting. Partner at Kepler, he manages the Innovation…

Sebastien Grilli

Sebastien Grilli

Partner

Sebastien graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE). He has over 20 years of experience in Management and Organizational consulting. Partner at Kepler, he manages the Innovation practice in France and globally. He specializes in the Automotive and Mobility, Defence and Space, Agrifood and Pharmaceuticals sectors.
Mathieu Pailler

Partner

Mathieu graduated from Centrale Supélec as an engineer and the MSc from both Imperial College and ESSEC Business School. His career started in the Defence sector as a Business Developer…

Mathieu Pailler

Mathieu Pailler

Partner

Mathieu graduated from Centrale Supélec as an engineer and the MSc from both Imperial College and ESSEC Business School. His career started in the Defence sector as a Business Developer before moving towards Management consulting in 2008. Mathieu specializes in the challenges of innovation & transformation of R&D organizations in the Automotive, Air Space and Defence, Chemicals, Cosmetics and Agrifood industries.
Gregory Blokkeel

Director

Holder of a master’s degree in applied mathematics and physics from MatMeca in Bordeaux, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Marseille II, in partnership with the…

Gregory Blokkeel

Gregory Blokkeel

Director

Holder of a master’s degree in applied mathematics and physics from MatMeca in Bordeaux, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Marseille II, in partnership with the PSA Peugeot-Citroën Group and with the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he spent 18 months during his thesis, Gregory has a rich background in the fields of innovation built over a 23 years career. He brings his solid expertise in the automotive and mobility sectors to the teams in charge of Innovation at KEPLER. Specialized in Open Innovation, IT integration and Data & Digital transformation, his priority mission is to develop the firm’s know-how in breakthrough innovation and the experimentation of new business.

Innovation News

Offer

New Business Factory: an Approach to Sustainable Innovation

6 Nov. 2024

Approach

Quick Lean Engineering: Increasing the Efficiency of a Research & Innovation Department

12 Feb. 2024

Theme

The Innovation and R&D 2030 Vision - KEPLER

6 Dec. 2023

In Support of Our Innovation Consulting Initiatives

Innovation Consulting Services by KEPLER

Innovation Consulting is said to be a practice or process of identifying new methods and directions to create value for customers trying to implement growth strategies in order to achieve sustainability and organization goals.

KEPLER is a consulting firm with a focus on Innovation and R&D functions. A benchmark player among the TOP Innovation Consulting Firms in the world of innovation, KEPLER supports organizations in reinventing their innovation model, managing R&D and Innovation project portfolios, optimizing new product development processes, Lean-Engineering, and Target cost design. The innovation consulting approach offered by KEPLER is recognized among the most efficient on the market. KEPLER Global Innovation Consulting Firm has its offices in United States(U.S), France, China, and India.

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KEPLER CONSULTING GROUP

Innovation Consulting Firm

Our
Commitment

Inventing the Business of Tomorrow

Increasing the ROI of R&I

Accelerating Time-to-Market

Engaging the R&D Community

Innovating Sustainably

Our
Consulting Approach

Innovation Consulting Business Cases