ABOUT VELOCITY NPD
Experience from inside global NPD.
Velocity NPD was founded around a simple idea: organizations should be able to get more value from Planisware without making product development harder for the people doing the work.
NICK DUNCAN
Practitioner first.
Nick Duncan has spent years working at the intersection of new product development, enterprise systems, portfolio management, and business-process improvement.
His Planisware experience includes ownership and evolution of a global enterprise implementation supporting NPD in a major consumer-products organization.
The work has spanned system implementation, Stage-Gate evolution, product ownership, business-process automation, portfolio visibility, cross-functional execution, NPD best-practice leadership, and Planisware customer advisory leadership.
THIRD-PARTY PROOF
Publicly documented Planisware experience.
Planisware's speaker profile identifies Nick as the product owner of Beam Suntory's Planisware implementation, notes that he co-led the original implementation and a later Stage-Gate iteration, led the NPD Best Practices Working Group, and was part of the team that won a 2022 Planisware Excellence Award.
Planisware's award write-up describes Beam Suntory using Planisware Enterprise as the source of truth for Stage-Gate KPIs, executive pipeline scorecards, macro-level risk visibility, and the five-year global pipeline.
BROADER PERSPECTIVE
What other customers do matters.
Leading an NPD Best Practices Working Group for several years and serving in Planisware customer advisory leadership created exposure beyond a single implementation.
That perspective includes how other organizations approach Planisware governance, NPD processes, Stage-Gate, portfolio management, resource planning, configuration, adoption, automation, and platform evolution.
It helps Velocity NPD distinguish between what is technically possible, what other organizations are trying, and what tends to work operationally.
FEATURED CUSTOMER STORY
End-to-end new product implementation with Planisware.
Watch Nick discuss global NPD and Planisware in practice.
CONSULTING PHILOSOPHY
Live with the result.
Velocity NPD approaches consulting from the position of someone who has had to own the system after implementation, respond when users push back, maintain configuration as requirements evolve, and keep a high-volume NPD process moving.
That means recommendations are judged by what happens after the project ends—not only by whether the design looked good during implementation.