SAVE THE DATE: Savvy Consortium Conference XXXIII

Design Transformation through Human Centered Innovation

Wednesday, September 21

Hosted by: The Toro Company

8111 Lyndale Ave S, Bloomington, MN 55420

What is the Savvy Consortium?

Savvy Consortium began in 2005 as a member-driven collaboration between high performance new product development and innovation engineering leaders who generate experiential knowledge through regular interaction with trusted managers of comparable challenges and processes. Savvy Consortium expanded from Minneapolis/St. Paul to Wisconsin, Northeast Ohio, the Northeastern US and the broader Midwest; In 2022, Savvy Consortium expands to add the Continuous Improvement Consortium and Executive Leaders Roundtable. Our members share their know-how, best practices and resources to advance science and technology for the betterment of their customers, colleagues and communities.

Our Mission: 

To advance science and technology for the betterment of mankind.

1

Design high quality new products that satisfy customer value expectations.

2

Increase production efficiency to meet short time-to-market schedules.

3

Integrate virtuous leadership principles for Organizational Excellence.

Featured Attendees

  • Amano Pioneer

  • Thermofisher Scientific

  • Cooper

  • Goodyear

  • TSI

  • General Mills

  • McDonalds

  • Medtronic

  • Sauder

  • Dana

  • Timken

  • Eaton

  • Toro

  • Alcoa

  • Inovonics

  • Steris/US Endoscopy

  • Masonite

  • Nexen Group

  • Boston Scientific

  • St. Jude Medical

  • Cabot

  • Schram

  • Genie

  • Pella

  • John Deere

  • Diebold

  • Stratasys

  • Tennant

  • Deluxe

  • Actuant

  • Parker

  • Knowles

  • Keithley

  • Crown

  • GE Medical

  • CNH Industrial

  • Cabot Electronics

  • Wil-burt

  • UTAS Aerospace

  • Exmark

  • Saris

  • Toyota

  • Altec

  • RT technologie

  • HGST

  • Waterous

  • Ditch Witch

  • Terex

  • Emerson

  • Diamond

  • 3M

  • Henny Penny

  • Kohler

  • Andersen

  • Wet Design

  • Sub Zero

  • Harley Davidson

  • Autobag

  • CA Companies

  • Beckman Coulter

  • Donaldson

  • Seagate

  • Vermeer

  • Loram

  • Steffes

  • and participants from many other manufacturers that are implementing continuous improvement in their product design engineering organizations.