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Jan 22, 2009 - Jan 23, 2009
Apr 30, 2009 - May 01, 2009
Sep 17, 2009 - Sep 18, 2009
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Attend Accelerating New Product Development to learn how to design a product development strategy that increases speed and productivity in an environment of fewer people, more complex development challenges, and shorter deadlines. You’ll learn how to use metrics dashboards to guide your portfolio strategy and the execution efforts of your new product development project teams.
You’ll learn how to identify and fix the most critical barriers to achieving faster product development and improved productivity by using an integrated process roadmap.
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Who Should Attend
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- Use best practices for rapid progress
- Design a product development strategy that increases speed and improves productivity
- Identify and fix barriers to achieve faster product development speed and productivity
- Construct your case to rationalize resource supply and demand when all projects are deemed ‘essential’
- Build steps to increase leverage across product/service efforts
- Lead people to face risk rationally without either hiding from it or ignoring it completely
- Address the issue of your development groups being scattered across the globe
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Building a Foundation for Faster Product Development
- Building your business case and coalition for increasing product development speed
- Surfacing the forces driving or inhibiting change in your firm
- Making faster product development and customer satisfaction inseparable
- Using best product development practices for operational and strategic speed
- Incorporating the emerging role of information technology in driving development speed
Exercise: Build the case for speed for your situation
Tuning Product Development Portfolio Content and Processes for Speed
- Designing ‘minimum viable’ portfolio and project governance structures
- Using portfolio measurement tools to avoid developing near duplicate products and to fill product line gaps
- Building a framework and product architecture for re-use in multiple products
- Developing alternative portfolio strategies for speed
- Identifying and coping with disruptive technologies and change requirements
- Using partner-based development/collaboration principles for speed
Exercise: Map your current portfolio
Redefining the Development Process: Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary Development Methods
- Accelerating the traditional phase-gate process
- Determining when to apply the phase-gate process and when to use an alternate approach
- Using a flexible product development process: how to define and design concurrently
- Creating time-effective program management processes
- Focusing the program manager role on speed
- Creating development plans that accelerate clear program definition
Case Exercise: Analyze and redesign the ‘SoftSmarts Company’ product development system
Building a High Performance Development Community
- Designing the right team for the job
- Transforming functional-silo thinking into teamwork
- Selecting strategies for successful co-location (real and virtual)
- Improving leadership skills for speed
- Designing reward and recognition systems for speed
Metrics: Putting a Speedometer on Your Company’s Scorecard
- Understanding the difference between business, and research and development metric issues
- Defining the measures that support speed and customer satisfaction
- Designing and using predictive measures
- Building and updating development team dashboards
Implementation: How Product Development Leaders do it
- Implementation models
- Case studies: Johnson & Johnson, Cisco, and Genzyme
- Test drive: implementation plan review
- Best practices for rapid progress
Application Session: Building your implementation plan |
This course is designed for senior executives and managers in engineering, R&D, product planning, business development, marketing, and general management.
We recommend team participation for maximum company benefit.
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Christopher Meyer
Jan 22, 2009 - Jan 23, 2009
Apr 30, 2009 - May 01, 2009
Sep 17, 2009 - Sep 18, 2009
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Christopher Meyer
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Christopher Meyer, PhD, is chairman of the Strategic Alignment Group, Incorporated, and an academic affiliate of PRTM. Dr. Meyer specializes in helping companies drive growth through rapid innovation in strategy, portfolio optimization, and customer experience management. Dr. Meyer has designed and helped implement cycle time programs for Cisco Systems, Daimler-Chrysler, Emerson Electric, Genzyme Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Exxon Mobil, Texas Instruments, Motorola, Procter & Gamble, Ericsson, and United Healthcare.
Blending over 30 years experience as an executive, consultant, and researcher, Dr. Meyer is the author of Fast Cycle Time: How to Align Purpose, Strategy and Structure for Speed. His latest Harvard Business Review article, "Understanding Customer Experience," (February 2007) shows how leaders harness customer experience to grow faster than competitors. Dr. Meyer's executive experience includes serving as vice president for human resources at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems and organizational effectiveness advisor at Zilog, Incorporated. He teaches the Caltech Industrial Relations Center course, Accelerating New Product Development.
Dr. Meyer served on the faculty of the University of Southern California and the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD and masters in organization strategy and design from the University of Southern California. He holds a BS in economics from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.
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Day 1 - 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Day 2 - 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM
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Special Feature
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Each participant receives a copy of the Chris Meyer, PhD,
book, Fast Cycle Time. |
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Comments from Past Participants
"I learned actual methodology in addition to theory. Dr. Meyer showed solid examples on how to turn product development metrics into useful reports and dashboards. What I learned in the course was directly applicable to the daily product development challenges that we face."
Michael Conway
Senior Vice President of
Corporate Strategy and
Development
Focus Enhancements, Inc.
"The content of this program is highly relevant to those seeking to accelerate their new product development process. Chris provides comprehensive coverage of the topic in an engaging and interactive manner. I especially found the concepts of fast failure and the five aspects of corporate culture to be helpful in explaining obstacles I've encountered in the past."
Karen G. Phelan
Senior Manager
International Markets
Johnson & Johnson
Consumer Group
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