Decade Devices

Transparency & Accessibility

I believe in open and fast communication with clients and colleagues. I am only an email, text, or phone call away.

 

Strong Foundations

I work with my clients to build strong foundations for their products, marketing strategy, and businesses.

Global Focus

I travel the world to ensure my clients have the right intel, vendors, business partners, customers, and connections.

 

Real Products

I go the extra mile to help clients bring useful, well-received products to market safely, efficiently, and quickly.

Teamwork

I train local teams to work together in a functional way to test, market, and sell their products successfully well after I am gone.

 

Design Control

I work with product managers, engineers and Q.A./regulatory professionals to make sure requirements of design control are met, from clinical data to surgical validation.

PURPOSE

Strategy

Creativity

Technology

I believe underdogs will be responsible for the next wave of groundbreaking innovations in our industry, and seek to help them rise to new heights.

“The reason big new things sneak by incumbents is that the next big thing always starts out being dismissed as a ‘toy.’”

Clay Christensen’s “disruptive technology” theory.

CONTACT

SERVICES

    Decade Devices Consultancy specializes in:

    • Business Development, conduct contract negotiations with direct distribution and OEM customers.
    • Reviewing and analyzing business and product proposals to determine if benefits justify expenditures.
    • Defining new product concepts and conduct preliminary design reviews.
    • Working with vendors and suppliers to develop specialty components or products.
    • Conducting on-going market research.
    • Managing design controlled development projects.
    • Developing and working with clinical evaluators and advisers.
    • Compiling clinical report data and write reports for expert review.
    • Conducting usability evaluations and studies.
    • Managing new product validation, including developing validation protocols and being present for surgical evaluation.
    • Communicating with customers to monitor quality and to learn of ideas that could lead to product improvements.
    • Conducting post-market surveillance and gather clinical data.
    • Conducting sales and marketing training.
    • Maintaining an on-going knowledge base of the regulatory environment worldwide.
    • Managing product registration, worldwide.
    Business Development: 100%
    Product Development: 90%
    Vendor & Supplier Relations: 80%
    Clinical Data Analysis: 60%
    Market Research & Intelligence Gathering: 90%
    New Product Validation: 70%
    Product Compliance & Registration: 60%

    PHILOSOPHY

    Decade is more than a measure of time…

    When you look at the great products and the project that beget them, you learn that they often have a similar measure of time, from their inception, to their demise.

    dec·ade

    /ˈdekād/

    noun

    1. a period of ten years.
    2. a set, series, or group of ten, in particular.

    Devices are many things…

    Some people think of a device as a physical thing but devices are also ideas and intellectual mechanisms that can be used to create virtually anything.

    de·vice

    /diˈvīs/

    noun

    plural noun: devices

    1. a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment
    2. a plan, scheme, or trick with a particular aim.