Course Summary
This advanced program equips product, R&D, clinical, quality and commercial leaders to build a stronger innovation pipeline across orthopaedic supports, braces, orthoses, compression products, rehabilitation aids, sports recovery and preventive wellness. Participants learn to identify clinical and consumer needs, define intended use and product claims, apply biomechanics and material-selection principles, integrate design controls, evaluate manufacturability and manage portfolio complexity. The workshop is followed by a 90-day application journey in which teams develop or strengthen a live product or portfolio opportunity.
Who Should Attend
- Product, Portfolio and Category Heads
- R&D, Design and Product-Development Leaders
- Clinical, Medical and Regulatory Affairs professionals
- Quality, Manufacturing and Strategic Sourcing Leaders
- Marketing, Consumer Insights and Commercial Excellence teams
Business Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Build an innovation pipeline around validated clinical and consumer needs.
- Improve product differentiation through biomechanics, materials, fit and usability.
- Reduce development risk through design controls and early regulatory alignment.
- Improve speed to market through stronger cross-functional stage-gate execution.
- Increase portfolio productivity through structured SKU, category and lifecycle decisions.
Value-Creation Measures
- Share of premium and differentiated products
- Revenue contribution from new products
- Innovation pipeline value
- Concept-to-launch cycle time
- Stage-gate conversion rate
- Percentage of projects terminated before major investment
- Gross margin of new products
- Design-to-cost achievement
- Number of SKUs rationalised
- Portfolio revenue per active SKU
- Product return and complaint rates
- Fit and usability performance
