
Featured Mar 25, 2025
While tariff engineering offers temporary relief from import duties, medical device companies need a more sustainable approach. Value Engineering (VE) and Value Analysis (VA) provide permanent cost...

Navigating U.S. Tariffs in 2025: Why Reshoring Isn't a Quick Fix
Every medical device manufacturer and hardware-product executive has been sweating the never-ending tariff-threat headlines lately...
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Bringing a new product to market is a high-stakes race against time, where every decision, every iteration, and every collaboration counts. The DNA of a successful product development journey is...
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Imagine if we had a way to measure the fuel efficiency of our innovation engine, ensuring that every drop of effort pushes our customers’ product innovations forward just a little bit...
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While countless books have been written on teamwork, there is something unique and special about building and leading a team that delivers complex technical services in a client-facing...
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Over the past 18 years since the founding of Inertia, we’ve had a lot of opportunity to speak with both prospective and existing clients at length about their approach to physical product...
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Over the past few years, I've had a number of conversations with late-stage venture capitalists (VC), private equity (PE) investors, and operators of companies they've invested in about the role New...
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The True Cost of Going
“Slow-To-Market” Make Some Noise
It’s commonly understood that in the world of product design...
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BEST PRACTICES FOR HARDWARE AND IOT STARTUPS
For start-ups developing hardware and IoT products – the challenges they face are very different from start-ups developing pure software...
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Choosing a product development (PD) agency to help bring your product to market is a high stakes decision that should be made with the utmost care.
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