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

Lean Product Development Conference VI

Savvy Consortium Events March 17 - 18, 2009 Chicago


Tuesday March 17, 2009
Wednesday March 18, 2009
Savvy Seminar: "Introduction to Knowledge Based Lean Product Development System and Tools"
MORNING SESSION

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Savvy Conference VI - Chicago
Savvy Lean Product Development "Knowledge Wins in Economic Downturn" Keynote Speaker – Toyota Engineering Manager
Featured Speaker Medtronic Design Engineer
Lean Product Development “Knowledge Wins”
Five product development engineering leaders present their “lived experiences” implementing Knowledge Wins” lean product development systems.
Seagate
Goodyear
Ingersoll Rand Thermo King
Hoffman
Toyota R&D “Story of the Prius”
FULL DAY

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TIME: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
TIME: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
COST: $375
COST: $850
Savvy Symposium: "Innovate Out of the Economic Downturn"
Product Development Engineering Leaders
Panel topics:
Manage innovation with tight budgets
-cost reduction practices
-development teams must do more with less
-engineers motivation and productivity
-transforming to knowledge centered development
AFTERNOON SESSION

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TIME: 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
COST: $275
LOCATION: Courtyard by Marriott
370 N Route 83 Elmhurst, IL 60126
630-941-9444
LOCATION: Courtyard by Marriott
370 N Route 83 Elmhurst, IL 60126
630-941-9444