pateo consulting

Catalyzing resolution of New Product/R&D challenges.
Resolving leadership, technical, new product strategy, schedule, efficiency, working relationship, cross-functional issues in tech businesses.
Turning around impossible situations in product development programs.
Providing Program Management par excellence - exploiting communication, broad technical skills and experience to matrix-manage product developments to success.
Examples of challenges we have resolved - including how we helped a company grow sales by 700% in two weeks.
Why we can probably resolve your challenge.

Approach:

Apply creative, highly developed communication-based leadership, management and problem solving methods that are independent of specific market, technology or business knowledge - in combination with:

1. Extensive, varied R&D leadership, management, technical, process, project management experience developed in large and small businesses in a range of high-tech areas on three continents.
2. Experience of developing and implementing successful product and technology strategies in a variety of technical-market situations.
3. A determined drive toward attainment of business objectives, accurate schedule prediction, and measurement of risk through use a practical, well proven, product development methodology.
4. Exploiting the independence and creative freedoms available to a consultant. Why use a consultant ?   Other FAQ's.
5. The personal excitement and enjoyment we derive from pursuing and finding problem solutions by using our communications skills - as discussed on this website.

Services:

Program Management: We provide services covering all aspects of Program Management, including product definition, technology selection, product development leadership-management, project management and introduction to production and market.
Issue/Challenge Resolution: We provide on-site, practical, hands-on R&D leadership-management skills to assist, guide, mentor, impel, lead people across your business to:

1. resolve product development challenges - see examples of challenge scenarios scenarios we can resolve.
2. strategize-define new products (e.g. to match affordable/available resource to market opportunity; identify new technology to meet market demands).
3. plan-lead-manage product developments on accurately predicted schedules with measured, communicated risk.

Management Consulting: Improving R&D productivity by introducing enhanced communication, leadership and management methods. We provide practical, creative, independent consulting on critical communication, leadership, management, business and technical approaches and issues to assist and guide Executive and R&D management in the improvement of R&D efficiency. How do we deliver our services ?

Experience:

Breadth of experience plus a focus on communication enables us to rapidly get results with minimal need to acquire specific knowledge of your business, technology or market.
Technical Experience developed in defining, architecting and/or developing (scheduling and delivering to market) some fifteen products-systems with varying mixes of software, hardware, dsp, mechanical, image processing, design process-CAD technology for the following technical and market domains:

Chip Development - DSP, processor, digital, memory, software-hdl design methodology - for Telecom and PC markets Chip Development for standard product chip markets Chip Development Systems for high complexity digital chips Telecom Product Systems Architecture Contributions Hardware Development for high volume Personal Computer Hardware, embedded software, application software for high volume PC board markets Development of an Image Processing System Architecture for an industrial automation market Development of a Technology and Product Architecture for a cellular phone/RF coverage extension system

Program Management-Project-Development Process Experience Overview:

Cross-Functional Product Development and Leadership Project Methodology Definition-Evolution Development Tool Selection-Acquisition Product Technology Selection-Evolution-Projection New Product Identification and Roadmap Development Competitive Product-Market Analysis Product Definition-Planning-Architecture Product Cost Evaluation-Control-Projection Competitive Product Cost and Technology Evaluation-Projection Project Planning-Resourcing-Budgeting Project Management

Project Schedule Development Project Risk Evaluation Project Risk Management Team and Engineer Motivation International Team Management/Leadership Intra-Team and Concurrent Process Management Program Management R&D Efficiency Improvement R&D Progress Evaluation and Reporting Intra-Business Function Communication R&D Business Process Development Customer Facing Tasks - Supporting Sales

Experience of Market-Driven Creation of New Products encompassing various aspects of product line diversification, new product definition and related market analysis/research for a number of markets - Intellectual Property, ASIC and Standard IC, Telecom, PC, Industrial Automation. We have experience in a wide variety of businesses on three continents, across the size spectrum from multi-$B global companies to $3m niche market businesses.

Service Delivery:

Methodology: Focussed exclusively on the challenge, we work intensively with your people - holding intensive rounds of carefully focussed discussions with individuals and groups - to turn their existing, on-hand, information into the knowledge that solves the challenge whilst selectively introducing new information to manage risk and restrain 'wild goose chases'. We continually seek to exploit the view that 'necessity is the mother of invention' by carefully defining the necessity ('the bounds of the box' defined by your business's objectives, resources, market) to encourage practical, relevant innovation and creativity. More on our methodology.

Example Services:

• Tactical Problem Resolution: 1-3 months of hands-on focused leadership-management-facilitation to (e.g.) define and resolve a specific project, technical, managerial or leadership issue in an R&D Group.
• R&D Consulting: 1-3 months of intensive discussion, exploration, problem definition, proposal development, commitment and implementation, working with executive management and a broad selection of your engineers and their management.
• Interim Management: 2-9 months of intense leadership-management activity to (e.g.) define new products, develop new product strategy, restructure-rebuild an R&D organization, rework and implement new development schedules, create process and structures for new product definition and development.
• Long Term: Program Management of an individual project (or of multiple projects) or a 6-15 month sequence of some of the tasks listed above.

Contact:

To explore finding a solution to a current issue or discuss something mentioned here call Andrew Herrington - (519) 635-5308.

Pateo Consulting

mobile: (519) 635-5308;
email: xxxpateo@pateo.com.
76 York Street,
Kitchener,
Ontario N2G 1T7,
Canada.

pateo consulting

Catalyzing resolution of New Product/R&D challenges.
Resolving technical, new product strategy, schedule, efficiency, working relationship, cross-functional issues in tech businesses.
Turning around impossible situations in product development programs.
Providing Program Management par excellence - exploiting communication, broad technical skills and experience to matrix-manage product developments to success.
Examples of challenges I have resolved - including how I helped a company grow sales by 700% in two weeks.
Why I can probably resolve your challenge.

Approach:

Central to my approach is focused, led, excited discussion. The communication that happens during involved, vital discussion is one of the most innovative things people do, creating critical knowledge as it unites information in a shared, agreed, understood context.
My Role: I develop a context with key players - then, using multiple focused discussions and a range of other communication techniques, plus my technical skills, I systematically assemble information to build relevant knowledge - providing the basis for solving the business's challenge.
Rationale: People are often resistant to publicly, interactively developing information with other people; commonly used meeting styles and under-developed personal interactive skills prevalent in some employee groups reinforce this resistance.
The Opportunity: In this resistance lies the opportunity I exploit by adroitly interacting with the players to release the efficiency, energy and creativity of focused, led discussion. My focus on communication enables me to rapidly get results with minimal need for specific knowledge of your business, technology or market.
Link: Click hovering link for my article on 'Vital Discussion'. Apply creative, intense, highly developed communication-based horizontally-orientated problem solving methods - in combination with:

1. Extensive, varied R&D leadership, management, technical, process, project management experience developed in large and small businesses in a range of high-tech areas on three continents.
2. Experience of developing and implementing successful product and technology strategies in a variety of technical-market situations.
3. A determined drive toward attainment of business objectives, accurate schedule prediction, and measurement of risk through use a practical, well proven, project development methodology.
4. Exploiting the independence and creative freedoms only available to an outside consultant. Why use a consultant ?   Other FAQ's.
5. The personal excitement and enjoyment I derive from pursuing and finding problem solutions by using our specialized communications skills - as discussed on numerous pages in this website.

Services:

Program Management: I provide services covering all aspects of Program Management, including product definition, technology selection, product development leadership-management, project management and introduction to production and market.
Issue/Challenge Resolution: I provide on-site, practical, hands-on R&D leadership-management skills to assist, guide, mentor, impel, lead people across your business to:

Issue/Challenge Resolution: I provide on-site, practical, hands-on R&D leadership-management skills to assist, guide, mentor, impel, lead people across your business to:
1. resolve product development challenges - see examples of challenge scenarios scenarios we can resolve.
2. strategize-define new products (e.g. to match affordable/available resource to market opportunity; identify new technology to meet market demands).
3. plan-lead-manage product developments on accurately predicted schedules with measured, communicated risk.
Management Consulting: Improving R&D productivity by introducing enhanced communication, leadership and management methods. I provide practical, creative, independent consulting on critical communication, leadership, management, business and technical approaches and issues to assist and guide Executive and R&D management in the improvement of R&D efficiency. How do we deliver our services ?

Experience:

Breadth of experience plus a focus on communication enables me to rapidly get results with minimal need to acquire specific knowledge of your business, technology or market.
Experience overview:

Product Development and Leadership Project Methodology Definition-Evolution Development Tool Selection-Acquisition Product Technology Selection-Evolution-Projection New Product Identification and Roadmap Development Competitive Product-Market Analysis Product Definition-Planning-Architecture Product Cost Evaluation-Control-Projection Project Planning-Resourcing-Budgeting Project Schedule Development

Project Management Project Risk Evaluation Project Risk Management Team and Engineer Motivation International Team Management/Leadership Intra-Team and Concurrent Process Management Program Management R&D Efficiency Improvement R&D Progress Evaluation and Reporting Intra-Business Function Communication R&D Business Process Development Customer Facing Tasks - Supporting Sales

Technical Experience developed in defining, architecting and/or developing (scheduling and delivering to market) some fifteen systems with varying mixes of software, hardware, dsp, mechanical, image processing, design process-CAD technology for the following technical and market domains:


Chip Development - DSP, processor, digital, memory, software-hdl design methodology - for Telecom and PC markets Chip Development for standard product chip markets Chip Development Systems for high complexity digital chips Telecom Product Systems Architecture Contributions Hardware Development for high volume Personal Computer Hardware, embedded software, application software for high volume PC board markets Development of an Image Processing System Architecture for an industrial automation market Development of a Technology and Product Architecture for a cellular phone/RF coverage extension system

Experience of Market-Driven Creation of New Products encompassing various aspects of product line diversification, new product definition and related market research for a number of markets - Intellectual Property, ASIC and Standard IC, Telecom, PC, Industrial Automation. I have experience in a wide variety of businesses on three continents, across the size spectrum from multi-$B global companies to $3m niche market businesses.

Service Delivery:

Methodology: Focussed exclusively on the challenge, I work intensively with your people - holding intensive rounds of carefully focussed discussions with individuals and groups - to turn their existing, on-hand, information into the knowledge that solves the challenge whilst selectively introducing new information to manage risk and restrain 'wild goose chases'. I continually seek to exploit the view that 'necessity is the mother of invention' by carefully defining the necessity ('the bounds of the box' defined by your business's objectives, resources, market) to encourage practical, relevant innovation and creativity. More on our methodology.

Example Services:

• Tactical Problem Resolution: 1-3 months of hands-on focused leadership-management-facilitation to (e.g.) define and resolve a specific project, technical, managerial or leadership issue in an R&D Group.
• R&D Consulting: 1-3 months of intensive discussion, exploration, problem definition, proposal development, commitment and implementation, working with executive management and a broad selection of your engineers and their management.
• Interim Management: 2-9 months of intense leadership-management activity to (e.g.) define new products, develop new product strategy, restructure-rebuild an R&D organization, rework and implement new development schedules, create process and structures for new product definition and development.
• Long Term: Program Management of an individual project (or of multiple projects) or a 6-15 month sequence of some of the tasks listed above.

Contact:

To explore finding a solution to a current issue or discuss something mentioned here call Andrew Herrington - (519) 635-5308

Pateo Consulting


Canada - Cell: (519) 635-5308;
email: xxxpateo@pateo.com.
76 York Street,
Kitchener,
Ontario N2G 1T7,
Canada.
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Our Name:
"Pateo" is intended to be an allusion to our focus on developing clear communication in discussion, discussion being considered to be amongst the most creative things people do.
From Latin:
Pateo: To lie open, be exposed to any thing. In general to be open, free, allowable, accessible, attainable.
Of the hearing, etc., to be open, ready to hear. To be clear, plain, well known, evident, manifest.
Also:
Pateo: To be revealed, to stand open, to be clear, plain.
From:
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Pronunciation:
pat-ay-oo