Research Directions

When you understand the landscape of new technology developments expected, and have created your R&D strategy to address it, Research Directions helps you to plan and roadmap the necessary effort to research the subject area and arrive at a successful conclusion.

Research Directions is not just a plan, since in research it can never be certain that success will be found down particular routes. Instead it seeks to optimise research effort and manage risk to arrive at a workable solution via the minimum possible effort.

Our Approach

We focus on two aspects, the research advances necessary to achieve the objective, and the potential routes to meet that. The aim is to identify multiple potential routes differing in the greatest possible extent from each other, but with the possible of cross connection - using different technical solutions to met orthogonal requirements.

We then define a roadmap with the best chance of success, mapping this plan in detail. We also seek to plan quick, short and decisive risk reduction activities to determine the viability of the elements of this route, and the alternatives.

In this way we can update the plan to take account of research failures as quickly as possible - and we have scoped out the other routes early on in the process, allow an optimal system engineering approach to be used in solution development.

Benefits

Research Directions provides you with a flexible and adaptive plan that takes account of the uncertainty inherent in research and delivers resilience and efficiency. By asking key questions early we can significantly enhance your probability of success and minimise nugatory effort.

Please contact us if you have other questions or specific needs.