Market Insights

Leveraging proven market research techniques, Little Mile Creek Consulting will enhance your understanding of your market, competitors and your consumers’ needs. Our tools help you identify and prioritize the must-have features that provide competitive differentiation and additional value for your product as well as and what features are simply “nice-to-have.”

From this market research, we will lay out the business case for the product including recommendations for product feature sets, manufacturing location, and pricing and margin goals. In addition, our business cases are utilized as foundational support to develop the product’s story for marketing purposes.

Product Development

Do you need a product manager who can lead your team through the development process from ideation to launch? Little Mile Creek Consulting will work on a contract basis to lead all or portions of the process for you.

Our approach works with your entire team to help ensure that your product launches on time and on budget. We offer a full range of product development support including design processes and frameworks that encompass early ideation of concepts, supervision of design teams, vendor selection and qualifying, and finally launch support. Our tools, calendars and templates can be used over again as you launch more products.

Strategic Planning

Are you stymied developing a Strategic Plan for your business? Little Mile Creek Consulting will work on a contract basis to lead all or portions of the process for you.

Little Mile Creek will work with your leadership team to develop a strategic plan for your business. We facilitate fun and interactive exercises to that dive into your business’s current state and where you want to go. Then we help you develop a plan along with a suite of tools that help your team incorporate the Strategic Plan into their daily activities. Our tools, calendars and templates can be used over again as you continue your planning journey.

Product Road Mapping

Good product roadmaps align the strategic vision of the company including brand and growth objectives with the product strategy. In addition, a good roadmap helps your team allocate resources, plan for staffing and complex tasks like research & development, and know when to begin projects.

Little Mile Creek will work with your executive team plus other key stakeholders from your marketing, sales and operations team to develop a strategic roadmap for your companies’ future products. Our tools frame your business needs and harness your team’s great ideas to produce consistent results.

Project Management Tools

Does your product development process feel out of control? Do you miss launch time lines? Do your teams have trouble communicating effectively to pass off tasks? If you answered yes to any of these question, Little Mile Creek Consulting will help implement a suite of product development tools to help your team consistently launch products on time and on budget.

Our tools are both flexible and give your process structure. They leverage both visual and electronic tracking systems and provide a meeting rhythm that actually works for your organization’s needs.

Or if you need a hands on help, hire Little Mile Creek to work on a project basis to manage your next product launch from ideation to launch.

Consumers across the product spectrum value environmentally sustainable products. Rely on Little Mile Creek’s expertise in sustainability to help make your existing or future products more sustainable through design, raw materials and packaging selection.

Whether you are just incorporating recycled materials for the first time or looking to shift from non sustainable textiles to more sustainable options, our approach helps make your products more environmentally sustainable.

Deciding between Made in the USA and made in Asia for your product? Understand the distinct advantages and disadvantages of each option. Little Mile Creek Consultants have experience in manufacturing in both the United States and in Asia and can help your team find and qualify manufacturers.

In addition to helping find a manufacturer, our approach will help you tailor your design to where you are manufacturing your products.