$Delay

$Delay...know the economics of delay for your next new product

One key finding from the fastworks best practice study was that fast teams knew the economics of delay; what each late day costs them in lost profit. They used this information to create urgency and quickly make informed decision trade-offs. $Delay implements this best practice and helps new product development teams function more like businesses.

$Delay uses a products business case for a new product development project and generates the Cost of Delay, margin, profit, return on investment (ROI), etc. Sensitivity analysis is performed on the business case and a simulation function permits users to dynamically model trade-offs between Schedule, Average Selling Price, Cost of Goods Sold, and Research & Development Expense to determine the cost-benefit of alternative decisions.

A consolidation function rolls-up the business cases of multiple development projects into portfolio-level financials.

FEATURES
- business case includes Unit Sales, Average Selling Price, Cost of Goods Sold, R&D expenses and SG&A
- cost of delay calculated (two methods)
- sensitivity analysis on the business presented graphically
- dynamic trade-off simulation function, i.e. what-if?
- consolidation of multiple business cases to generate portfolio-level (roll-up) financials
- support for multiple portfolios of business cases
- support for multiple currencies
- e-mail screenshots and text versions (that can be cut & paste into Excel and Numbers)
- on-line help and screencast tutorials

See screencasts of $Delay here including a 2 min overview:
http://www.fastworks.us/fastworks/delay-screencasts.html

See the fastworks Video Channel at
http://www.youtube.com/user/fastworksvideo

Training and consulting services are provided by fastworks. The best practice study on which $Delay is based is a free downloaded from iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=300605020&mt=8.