Welcome to HDA Consulting Click on the icon below to see our chapter "Gaining Competitive Advantage by Leveraging Lessons Learned," in The PDMA Tooklbook for New Product Development, John Wiley & Sons, October 2007. HDA Consulting helps clients to consistently transform innovative concepts into profitable products. Our integrated services focus on three key needs: Leveraging organizational knowledge as a source of competitive advantage: Achieving faster time-to-market through re-use of business and technical IP Attaining  measurable continuous improvement by embedding "lessons learned" into standard work flows  2.   Create New Product Development Processes that:     Promote in-depth undersanding of customer needs, market size and competitive forces Aggressively, yet realistically define project risks, costs and task durations Align project resource plans and project schedules  Provide robust project management Limit scope creep   3.   Establishing high performance teams, enabling:     Enhanced resource planning and utilization Reduction in delays attributed to unavailable team members  Motivated team members committed to team success