“MANAGING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN 2009"
Thursday December 17, 2009 - Minneapolis
Savvy is a consortium of product development engineering leaders. Savvy offers a timely symposium for product development engineering leaders to address the questions:
How are product development engineering leaders getting their arms around this economic uncertainty? What tools are they implementing? What initiatives do they have underway to:
1. Implement product cost reductions for long-term financial viability.
2. Eliminate waste in order to do meet schedules with fewer resources and constrained budgets.
3. Continuously engage technical knowledge workers to improve their performance quality.
4. Ensure continued flow in the product development pipeline.
5. Implement “Knowledge based” lean product development.
This is a “must attend” symposium for individuals who do want to benchmark the initiatives of others. Leaders know that they cannot engage their people, projects and processes in isolation given the uncertainty.
Plan to get answers and implement useful knowledge about how others address changing management expectations, customer value expectations and simultaneously implement change.
The symposium content will draw on the results of the Savvy Chicago symposium in March.
Savvy Symposium
Thursday December 17, 2009 2:30-5:00 PM
Symposium Cost: $40.00
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Lean Product Development Conference VII
“Knowledge Wins - Chief Engineer Leads”
October 7-8, 2009 Minneapolis
“Knowledge Wins - Chief Engineer Leads”
October 7-8, 2009 Minneapolis
“Designing Knowledge Based Product Development and Implementing Chief Engineer Leader System”
Gary Kassen - Director of Engineering, Power Products Division - Eaton Corp.
Gary Kassen is cofounder of the Savvy Consortium along with Dave Klis of the Toro Company. Gary will briefly describe his product development transformation initiative that started in 05. Using set based design practices resulted in meeting development timelines. Gary will describe subsequent initiatives implemented on the transformation timeline. Development project management improvement started with chief engineer project leadership implementation. Gary will describe the business case and the “organizational” case for this initative. and impacts of this initiative. Gary will discuss the “better than expected” impact of knowledge based product development on Eaton Hydraulics’ multi country product design organization.
Vince Duray - Chief Engineer, HLA Hybrids - Eaton Corp.
Vince has launched a potentially market changing new product. Vince will describe his product vision and elements of his knowledge based product development system. He will describe knowledge flow, timelines, customer interface, tradeoff curve knowledge, ”test before design” practices, set based design concurrent engineering, virtual design, rigorous problem solving, design integration events, vendor interface, managing “lots of meeting,” project administration, and the outcome: a game changing new product. In addition, Vince will list “better than expected” contributions that drove the success of this new product project.
Jaime LeClair - Chief Engineer, Motors, Gear & Vane Products - Eaton Corp.
Jaime will describe how he engages team individuals and his process tools/methods. He will highlight customer interface, his product vision, design goals, writing executive reports, problem solving collaboration, mini-obeyas , lean project management practices in the new knowledge based product development system. Jaime will list the “better than expected” contributions coming from individuals and how the knowledge from them apply to current and future development projects.
Event content, presentation materials and presenters may change without notice, but with intent to maintain or increase quality and relevance.