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Resources aren’t endless and you have to give something up whenever you want something else. How do you know what to build? When to build it? How to position it? How can you optimize your speed to market, engineering resources and technical risk? How do you make your product special? These questions plague every company and every product. San Francisco Consulting Group (SFCG) helps answer them.
Done right, product development increases your market share, expedites your time to market and allows you to charge a premium for your product. So how does SFCG address product development questions? Careful research and years of experience. SFCG’s business consulting leaves you with lasting best practices on product development that make your team more efficient. Ultimately, a more efficient team delivers better products to market, faster. SFCG can also help position your product. Understanding who will buy your product and why maximizes sales.
Accept Software – Accept Requirements
Customer Value Analysis

Visibility and communication drive successful product development. Accept Requirements delivers this crucial combination by consolidating all aspects of product development into one easy to use and navigate system. An SFCG implementation of Accept Requirements ensures you use the system to its full potential. Experienced SFCG consultants marry best practice business processes in your business with a customized Accept Requirements system. This system serves as far more than a simple requirement tracking tool. With SFCG training and implementation you can truly understand your requirements’ progress, how they align with your release plan and overarching company goals. SFCG and Accept Software align your corporate structure from high level goals to details at the requirement level to help ensure the right product gets to market for the right strategic position

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What are you worth to your customer? An interesting question, but the wrong one. The real question is: How can you be worth more to your customer? SFCG Customer Value Analysis answers this question. Carefully conducted first hand interviews with your past, current and potential customers drive an objective assessment of how your company can improve. Knowing what customers thinks about your product across several dimensions allows for and understanding of how to improve and create a product with added value for current and potential customers. A more valuable product grows demand and boosts your price point helping your bottom line. Listening to your customers also ensures you keep current customers for the long term, freeing you to attack more new opportunities. A Customer Value Analysis by SFCG delivers the information you need to understand your customers and a new, better product.
Concept Testing
SFCG knows that market acceptance and position create demand and drive revenue. An effective way to understand where your innovative product fits in the market is to concept test it in a focus group. SFCG handles the focus group process from recruitment to moderation and analysis. SFCG delivers a full report of qualitative and quantitative analysis, inspecting metrics key to your products success in the market. Actionable information propels decision making—good decisions making. Improvements and positioning come into focus when you know where your product stands among end users.