Tuesday October 5, 2010
Savvy Seminar I: The 21st Century Product Development System: Agile, Flexible, and Waste Free
This half day seminar introduces the essential elements of the 21st Century product development system which product development organizations in the manufacturing sector are adapting. More recently referred to as “agile product development,” some call it flexible product development while a few call it “lean” product development. Fundamentally, this is a system in which skilled, technical knowledge workers generate product designs, develop the designs for timely manufacture and launch to satisfy 21st Century customer demands for high quality/performance.
Deliverables include ten large visuals of the system and its key components. A glossary of terms and a leader’s reference plan are included with instruction how to introduce the system to colleagues.
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TIME: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
COST: $249
Cost: gratis (underwritten by The Toro Company)
This seminar presents A3 thinking and tools in current use with product design teams . The problem solving A3 , design intent A3, knowledge brief A3 will be presented along with twelve other variants. The use of A3 in a phased and gated process will be highlighted. The impact of A3 thinking/practice on product design, people performance, process improvement and project waste reduction will be included.
Deliverables include A3 formats and samples.
AFTERNOON SESSION
TIME: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
COST: FREE
CHICAGO
Savvy is a consortium of product development engineering leaders committed to developing growth generating new products. The Savvy Consortium’s members offer this timely symposium for product development engineering leaders to address the strategic imperative:
Innovate new products that get us out of the recession and transform the economy!
Companies have turned to their new product developers for this vital task. How are product development engineering leaders setting their targets and the tasks to achieve them? What tools are they implementing? What initiatives do they have underway to:
1. Find that innovation and ensure that it flows through the product development pipeline.
2. Implement tools to motivate knowledge workers’ focus on customer desired innovation and perform at high levels to deliver quality.
3. Eliminate waste in order to do more innovation with fewer resources and constrained budgets. (it is not about no coffee and donuts at design reviews!)
4. Implement cost reductions on existing products to ensure financial viability.
5. Implement “Knowledge based” lean product development.
This is a “must attend” symposium for individuals who respond to the high expectations of their colleague, customers and organizations. Leaders know that they cannot lead their people, projects and processes in isolation. There are opportunities that must no be overlooked.
Plan to get answers and implement useful knowledge about how others lead through innovation; how they respond to increased management and customer value expectations; how they simultaneously implement improvements in their product development people, tools and systems.
A panel of engineering management leaders will address these “vital imperatives questions.” Panelist will briefly describe their implementations followed by audience Q&A plus comments. Participation will be facilitated by Chicago’s own Gene Kania, Savvy Consortium Facilitator. Gene will direct the audience participation to generate maximum knowledge for all participants to use immediately.
Confirmed Panelists (check for updated confirmations):
Dave Augustine - Ingersoll Rand ThermoKing
Joe Klein - Medtronic
Product Development Engineering leaders , Program Managers, Business Development managers, VPs, CTOs, CIOs, executives should attend this strategic growth learning event.
Symposium Cost: $275
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