“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 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
To register, click here.