Tuesday October 5, 2010
Savvy Seminar I: The 21st Century Product Development System: Agile, Flexible, and Waste Free
This half day seminar introduces the essential elements of the 21st Century product development system which product development organizations in the manufacturing sector are adapting. More recently referred to as “agile product development,” some call it flexible product development while a few call it “lean” product development. Fundamentally, this is a system in which skilled, technical knowledge workers generate product designs, develop the designs for timely manufacture and launch to satisfy 21st Century customer demands for high quality/performance.
Deliverables include ten large visuals of the system and its key components. A glossary of terms and a leader’s reference plan are included with instruction how to introduce the system to colleagues.
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TIME: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
COST: $249
Cost: gratis (underwritten by The Toro Company)
This seminar presents A3 thinking and tools in current use with product design teams . The problem solving A3 , design intent A3, knowledge brief A3 will be presented along with twelve other variants. The use of A3 in a phased and gated process will be highlighted. The impact of A3 thinking/practice on product design, people performance, process improvement and project waste reduction will be included.
Deliverables include A3 formats and samples.
AFTERNOON SESSION
TIME: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
COST: FREE
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
"The Foundation for Knowledge Engineering Worker and Systems Improvement: Learning and Implementing the Virtues"
Dr. Deborah Savage - University of St. Thomas
As a worker, supervisor and manager for many years in clean room production of USA based semi conductor manufacturers, Deborah Savage pioneered many successful productivity improvement initiatives.
Her workers were Asian and non Asian workers. The work ethic, habits and virtues of the various workers led Deborah Savage to conduct deep research into Asian Virtue and Western Virtue systems and to understand the drivers of work ethic in the technical workplace: the virtues.
Dr. Savage will present valuable knowledge and practical methods from her management experiences and her research. This knowledge will be elaborated in a forthcoming book that makes the business case for virtue based, knowledge worker productivity improvement at all levels of any technical worker based organization.
Event content, presentation materials and presenters may change without notice, but with intent to maintain or increase quality and relevance.