“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
“Hyper Short Development Cycle Transformation”
Wendell Short - Director of Product Development - Sauder Corporation
Sauder designs and manufactures consumer products distributed through a variety of distribution channels that demand “hyper short time to market project cycles. Wendell will describe his “original state” and current improved state of new product development. He will show his “back to basics” system and his experiences implementing Toyota system elements on product development projects that measure the design cycle in weeks, not months or years. Wendell will demonstrate Set based design, obeya tools, Lamda, parallel design methods, and problem solving rigor practices on short time lines that meet “customer defined value….” (Morgan/Liker).
Event content, presentation materials and presenters may change without notice, but with intent to maintain or increase quality and relevance.