“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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The SavvyTM Consortium Seminar
Elements of TPDDS are explained in a highly visual, easy to grasp half day seminar format as follows:
Seminar Presenters This seminar was designed and presented by product development managers with early adopter experiences initiating the Toyota Product Design and Development System.
Merle Meyer, P.E., Vice President, New Product Development, Rapid Refill, Inc.
Gene Kania, Savvy Consortium – Chicago and former engineering manager at Bell Labs.
Jim Jacobs, the Savvy Consortium – Minneapolis. Formerly product development manager (responsibilities similar to Toyota’s chief engineer role) who helped launch 14 new product platforms for six manufacturing firms serving a variety of industries. Jim initiated the Savvy Consortium -"serving the early adopters of Toyota's Product Innovation Design and Development System."
These seminar presenters are dynamic product development leaders who studied, interpreted and initiated elements of TPDDS in their Product Development organizations. They draw on their deep experience as product development managers. The content is based on the experiences of Savvy Consortium members. Content also references the books of Smith, Sobek , Kennedy and the late Dr. Allen Ward, The insight of Professors Satoshi Hino and the detailed observations of James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker are also noted.
Deliverables: workbook of presentation materials and visuals. A3 templates and samples.
Seminar Dates:
March 17, 2009 Chicago, IL
May 6 , 2009 Minneapolis, MN
Cost: $375 (includes book “Management Challenges of the21st Century by Peter F. Drucker)
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Introduction to Toyota’s Product Innovation, Design & Development System
From a small auto manufacturer in the 1940s, Toyota' product development engineers have grown their firm to the global leader position in the auto industry and #1 in USA market share. They accomplished this by building a basic, agile, "lean" product innovation, design and development system (TPIDDS).Elements of TPDDS are explained in a highly visual, easy to grasp half day seminar format as follows:
- The Toyota's Product Design and Development System: four pillars, thirteen principles.
- Toyota's product development project leader: the chief engineer.
- Set based design thinking and practices and the design convergent method.
- Trade off curves: engineering knowledge and language.
- Toyota's expert product development engineering "knowledge workforce"
- Responsibility based product development project that uses visual tools and Obeya space resources.
- A3 report documentation and rigor.
Seminar Presenters This seminar was designed and presented by product development managers with early adopter experiences initiating the Toyota Product Design and Development System.
Merle Meyer, P.E., Vice President, New Product Development, Rapid Refill, Inc.
Gene Kania, Savvy Consortium – Chicago and former engineering manager at Bell Labs.
Jim Jacobs, the Savvy Consortium – Minneapolis. Formerly product development manager (responsibilities similar to Toyota’s chief engineer role) who helped launch 14 new product platforms for six manufacturing firms serving a variety of industries. Jim initiated the Savvy Consortium -"serving the early adopters of Toyota's Product Innovation Design and Development System."
These seminar presenters are dynamic product development leaders who studied, interpreted and initiated elements of TPDDS in their Product Development organizations. They draw on their deep experience as product development managers. The content is based on the experiences of Savvy Consortium members. Content also references the books of Smith, Sobek , Kennedy and the late Dr. Allen Ward, The insight of Professors Satoshi Hino and the detailed observations of James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker are also noted.
Deliverables: workbook of presentation materials and visuals. A3 templates and samples.
Seminar Dates:
March 17, 2009 Chicago, IL
May 6 , 2009 Minneapolis, MN
Cost: $375 (includes book “Management Challenges of the21st Century by Peter F. Drucker)
Click here to register.