Lean Management Symposium

“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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Savvy Consortium Clients

Since its inception, the Savvy Consortium has conducted five seminars, two conferences, and co-sponsored workshops for lean product developers in many industries. Clients and participants include professionals from the following corporations:

3M
Alcoa
Andersen Corporation
APG Cash Drawer
Appleton Papers
Arctic Cat
Arizant Healthcare
Banner Engineering
Boston Scientific
Caterpillar Global Paving, Inc.
Centerpoint Energy
Central Research Laboratories
Compex Technlogies, Inc.
CyberOptics
Datacard
Degelman Industries
Deluxe
Donaldson Company, Inc.
Eaton Hydraulics
Ecolab, Inc.
EcoWater Systems, LLC
Emerson Process
Entegris
Ergotron Inc
ESCO Corporation
Exlar Corporation
Fargo Elecronics
Genie Industries
Graco
Guidant Corporation
Hoffman Enclosures Inc
ITW Engineered Fasteners
John Deere
Johnson Screens
Katun Corp.
Loram, Maintenance of Way, Inc.
LSI, Inc.
Marvin Windows and Doors
Mate Precision Tooling, Inc.
McLean Thermal
Medtronic
Miller Manufacturing
Nordic Ware
Nypro Inc.
Parker Hannifin Corporation
Polaris Industries
Prince Industries
Pure Fishing
Rapid Refill Corp
Red Devil Equipment
Rockler Companies, Inc.
Rosemount Inc.
Sauer-Danfoss
Schlumberger
Seagate Technology
Sico America
Starkey Laboratories, Inc
TEAM Industries
Tecton Products
Tennant Company
Tetra Pak Gable Top Systems Inc.
The Timken Company
The Toro Company
Thermo King Corp (Ingersoll Rand)
Timken
Trane
Truth Hardware
Valley Craft Inc.
Wanner Engineering
Waukesha Bearings Corporation
Williams Sound Corp