Conference XII
Savvy Consortium
Product Development Conference XII
“Knowledge Management:
Drives Innovation, Builds Talent, Satisfies Customers”
March 13-14, 2012 Chicago (Elmhurst), Illinois
Savvy Conference XII features a variety of engineering managers presenting their experiences with “knowledge based” agile, flexible, innovative people working in high performance organizations serving many different industries with new products of highly differentiated value. These speakers offer the conference participants experience based presentations of how they learn and transform their organizations to “knowledge based” product development systems.
This Savvy Consortium Conference is all about “living” their work life in a knowledge first product development organization.
The “Knowledge Wins” mascot is a1915 USA doughboy soldier climbing the mountain of knowledge as depicted by the neatly stacked books. Soldier’s stack of books subjects include: engineering, history, surveying, geography, economics, et. al. Is aeronautics missing because the Wright Brothers 190 4 aeroplane success had not been written up?
Knowledge is the winning element for the 2012 USA product development technical worker, their team leaders, the development organization matrix managers. product development directors, and the enterprise executive managers. They are typical attendees of Savvy Conferences I through XI: the learn the knowledge first product development system elements. They assess their current state and compare it with the variety of initiatives required to engage their people to learn and deploy the elements in their teams and matrix organizations.
Conference Topics (in preparation)
“Link Customers’ Product Expectations with Set Based Design’s Robust Solutions”
“ A Mature Model of the Development Program Leader: Chief Engineer”
“Knowledge Based Product Development at a National Laboratory”
“Knowledge flow value stream from design to vendors to manufacturing”
“Engaging the top performers and middle performers in waste elimination”
“Vendors Generate High Value Knowledge –Ways to Use It”
“Knowledge Handoff Makes Development Teams Dynamic”
“Market Value and Customer Value Expectations – the First Learning Task”
Conference Speakers Confirmed
Knowledge Drives Waste Free Product Development at Sandia National Laboratories
-Cliff Clifford L. Renschler, Phd.
Co-Presenter: Melecita M. Archuleta
Knowledge Connects Design, Development, Vendors and Production
-Mike Daprile
The Power of Empowered People: A Skunk Works Success
-Richard D. Ziminski, President
Collect Information-Work to Exhaustion
-Francisco Ruiz, Professor
Illinois Institute of Technology
Set Based Design Practices-Builds Talent, Generates Knowledge, Creates Value Streams
-Don Remboski, Vice President
Innovation: Generates Energy, Improves Quality, Transforms Process
-Mike Wilps, Director of Design Operations
Scrum/Sprint Practices of high performance product development teams that meet their deadlines
-Steve Zielinski
Knowledge: Generate Smartly- Store Safely- Find Instantly: the Systems Approach
David Gregor, Vice President
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