Break Through Sessions
Get your product development moving again. To a working prototype.
When product development stalls, more meetings rarely help. In a Break Through Session we test with a multidisciplinary team what does work and make the next step tangible.
Book a free introductionFor R&D and innovation teams with a specific product challenge that needs a breakthrough.
Where it often gets stuck
From lots of meetings to one tangible next step.
A Break Through Session is intended for the moment when sufficient knowledge exists, but the team can’t agree on a shared, buildable direction.
It stays at meetings
Design, engineering and business talk past each other. There are slides and opinions, but no prototype on which the team can base a decision.
The concept only works on paper
Materials, geometry or electronics turn out not to work together. What convinces in a presentation collapses once you have to build it.
Risks only become visible too late
Manufacturability, assembly or testing only come into view once the design is fixed. Correcting course then means redesign, delay and extra budget.
There is no shared next step
Everyone feels it’s stuck, but no one can say what the very next tangible move is. The project stays open without an executable direction.
What you have at the end
No extra report. Instead proof to move forward with.
You finish the session with something the team can see, test and defend: a working result, a shared decision and a concrete next step.
A working prototype
Not a visualization or advisory document, but a prototype or demonstrator that shows what does work.
A decision the team shares
Which direction you keep, what is discarded and why. Less debate and a common starting point.
A concrete follow-up
What the next build or test step is and what you need for it. Concrete enough to schedule immediately.
How a Break Through Session works
Start small. Build purposefully. Decide on evidence.
We start non-confidentially. Only once the challenge is clear do we deploy the right team and the Pilot Factory.
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Introduction
A short conversation about where it’s stuck, what already exists and what success looks like. No pitch. If we proceed afterwards, we arrange an appropriate NDA.
- 02
The session
Designers, engineers and specialists in prototyping and production work directly on your blockage. Iteration and testing take place in-house.
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Delivery
You receive a working prototype or demonstrator, the shared decision and the next build or test step. Ready to share internally.
Free introduction
Where is your product development getting stuck?
Briefly tell us what’s happening. We’ll contact you to explore the challenge and determine whether a Break Through Session is the right next step.
The first conversation is without obligation and can be entirely non-confidential. We only share sensitive information after appropriate agreements.
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