Rapid Learning Cycles:
Agile Accelerant for Physical Products
Our clients become truly agile - faster, more flexible, & more responsive — even in challenging industries.
As a result, they get products to market at least 30% faster, at 50% of the cost and the potential to get twice the products out with the same investment.
Companies do this by eliminating waste and removing obstacles that hold back successful on-time product launches.
Katherine Radeka developed the Rapid Learning Cycles framework in 2012, and more than 800 companies around the world use it today.
Since 2012, clients ranging from startups to large multi-nationals and universities have achieved their goals, generating an average ROI on our services of at least 400% on their first projects — with benefits compounding for years after our initial work together.
Featured Client Stories
Clients in New Zealand, The Netherlands, and the United States share their experiences with Rapid Learning Cycles.
Client Success
INCREASED CAPACITY
Rapid Learning Cycles drove a major consumer products group to quadruple their capacity to deliver new products to market — with the same resources.
ACCELERATED GROWTH
Rapid Learning Cycles accelerated a medical device company’s growth curve, helping them take over the #1 position from their competitor through improved on-time delivery of new products.
NEW MARKETS
Rapid Learning Cycles provided the right structure for an innovation team as they developed a new line of business for their company, with stronger decision making around prioritization, product design, positioning, placement and price.
FASTER TIME TO MARKET
A global industrial tools group cut time-to-market by more than 50% by integrating Rapid Learning Cycles into their standard Product Development Process.
Impact of Rapid Learning Cycles on New Product Development (NPD) Results for a Consumer Product Category in Full Adoption
Our Clients Benefit Through:
Guiding teams running mission-critical projects to streamline and supercharge their PDP, so they minimize R&D costs and shrink time-to-market.
Providing on-going services to support our clients’ teams with expertise and insights, to maximize efficiency and beat the competition to market.
Certifying project leaders in the application of our methodology, to confidently lead their teams towards realizing more savings on future projects.
Wouter van Essen
Sonion
"The most important thing we expected to get from Rapid Learning Cycles is that it offers a system, a framework for the Lean product development practices that we were already pursuing.
So now, instead of saying "you have to do LAMDA", "you have to do Test to Fail", "you have to do Set-Based Concurrent Engineering" — we could make it much more simple and say "you have to do Rapid Learning Cycles", because Rapid Learning Cycles is a natural home for all those practices."
