Chuck Libourel

About Chuck Libourel

Are you satisfied with the status quo of new product development in your company?Plain and simple: I make your NPD projects more effective, less expensive, and faster. I serve manufacturing business stakeholders who must quickly and inexpensively improve their product portfolios and resolve operational issues due to material events. I\'m a holistic new product developer who emphasizes NPD process excellence, network depth, and speed-to-profit.Many companies\' product development efforts are ad-hoc, minimally defined, engineering-centric, prioritized by brute force, glacially paced, and as expensive as buying an NFL team. My approach is very different. I lead a complete and disciplined new product development process that manages risk, maximizes profit, and minimizes the time it takes for a new product idea to produce positive cash flow.

Experience

1. Managing Director

   Hello New Products

   Jan 2008 — Present · Cincinnati, OH, US

   HNP is the recognized authority in Managed Risk Innovation™, a proprietary revenue and profit driven process that manages event-driven new product development.We serve the stakeholders of manufacturing companies whose product portfolios and operational issues have led to a need for dramatic and rapid change in the face of existential material events and crises. We deliver managed-risk product innovation and business process improvement.The keys to our approach are process, network, and speed to profit. Companies that engage HNP recognize a need for dramatic change, but lack the internal resources or ‘know how’ to execute. We engage and organize your entire business team, fill in the gaps in your roster, and manage the end-to-end new product development lifecycle from “potential to profit”. Our experience spans a broad spectrum of industrial and consumer markets, products, technologies, manufacturing processes, material science, supply chains, and B2B & B2C distribution channels.First, we analyze your business holistically to understand how each part of your internal structure interacts with the whole. Next, we apply our product development and process improvement framework in an even-handed manner. Finally, we generate both long and short term new products with a focus on an all-weather stream of revenue and profit.HNP is engaged by business owners, private equity firms, Boards of Directors, and CEO’s who are dissatisfied with the status quo of product development and process improvement in their companies.

Education

• Metropolitan State University of Denver

  BSMET

• Colorado Apprenticeship Council

  Tool and Die Technology/Technician

Skills

• Product Design
• Manufacturing
• Engineering
• Business Process Improvement
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Competitive Analysis
• Testing
• Team Building
• Management
• Program Management
• Project Planning
• Strategy
• Product Management
• Project Management
• Leadership
• Lean Manufacturing
• Strategic Planning
• Value Stream Mapping
• Product Development
• Innovation Consulting
• Integration