The Product Development Challenge

Companies of diverse sizes and from a breadth of industries are turning to collaboration tools as a means to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. The ultimate goal: to deliver better products and services to their customers, faster and more economically.

The process of product development is a collaborative yet complex, highly variable and costly one, involving numerous stakeholders both inside and outside the organization. These stakeholders use various software applications to create a multitude of documents, images, spreadsheets, schedules and other digital data, all critical to the successful design and launch of a product.

The idea behind collaboration is the creation of a shared environment that enables individuals and teams to work together, regardless of time and place, through the exchange of ideas and information.

Choosing the right product development management solution is a competitive necessity to ensure success and growth. A PDM strategy must be backed by three critical factors:

• Innovation - harnessing improvements within the processes that touch a product
• Execution - achieving cost reductions, quality improvements, optimized time-to-market and strong ROI through communications, collaboration and project management
• Speed - improving speed and control with repeatable processes and reliable technology
  
  
  

The Baton Solution

Baton Technologies’ response to this demand for collaboration technology is a cost effective and easy to implement solution that offers teams and managers the agility they need to overcome product development challenges.

Baton believes that product development management can adopt an approach that increases productivity and dramatically cuts product development time. The technology solution must capture and disseminate the expertise found amidst disparate teams. The goal is to unite this collective expertise and actionable data into one central repository.

Until now, most comprehensive collaborative solutions have been expensive, cumbersome and labor intensive. Baton offers the first comprehensive product development tool that does not require extensive training and dedicated personnel to be effective.

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