Further detailed design, manufacturing and marketing activities are required to deliver the solution. Indeed most organisations already have robust, well defined processes for delivering new products to market. Developing inclusively designed products should not require wholesale alteration of these existing approaches.

The key challenge is to deliver the project on time and on budget, without compromising the design intent. In reality, design teams often make numerous small decisions that individually appear to be cost-effective or pragmatic, but in combination erode the product’s ability to meet the original inclusive design requirements, therefore reducing its commercial success.

It is essential to quickly identify the barriers that will inevitably impede the development process, such as

• Cost and time restrictions
• Intellectual property issues
• Reluctance of key stakeholders

Decisions to overcome these barriers must be evaluated according to their impact on critical aspects of the requirements specification.