Making products. Better.
Increase your profits, transform your products, and delight your customers with PERLab’s proprietary design framework.
Do you want a customer who values and relies on your product? When customers begin to see how your product solves their problems and provides a best-in-class experience, brand loyalty is born and profitability soars. We listen to your customers and create value by enhancing what matters most to them. With experts in product design, product development, sustainability, user experience, industrial design, Internet of Things (IoT), consumer insights, product engineering, packaging design, and manufacturing excellence, PERLab’s end-to-end capabilities can support your growth at any point in your product’s life cycle. By taking a comprehensive look at your product, our design and development consultants unlock profits at all stages of your product’s life.
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A platform for innovation. An exchange of ideas. A meeting of minds. The Product Pioneers Circle is a place to share best practice, spark action and accelerate growth.

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Product Excellence and Renewal Lab (PERLab) is Kearney’s global dedicated practice for “everything product.” We help our clients make products that consumers fall in love with. Our design-driven approach to gross margin transformation offers end-to-end capabilities to support growth at every point in a product’s life cycle. Our experts in product design, product development, sustainability, user experience, industrial design, IoT, consumer insights, product engineering, packaging design, and manufacturing excellence help organizations disrupt markets and leapfrog the competition.
With studios in Chicago, Stuttgart, Bengaluru, Hamburg, and Shanghai, PERLab has clients that range from Fortune 500 companies to private equity portfolio firms. With a team of management consultants, designers, and technologists, PERLab boasts of a global team of seasoned operators with the trifecta of expertise needed to build great products.