Innovation leaders find themselves faced with more complex development challenges, increased competition, and shorter deadlines. Accelerating Lean Product Development Certificate Program provides a custom blueprint for revolutionizing product development in your firm that speeds the right product to market. Built on over twenty years of experience with companies ranging in size from start-ups to global Fortune 100 companies, we identify the changes required and how to make them.
Innovation leaders find themselves faced with more complex development challenges, increased competition, and shorter deadlines. Accelerating Lean Product Development Certificate Program provides a custom blueprint for revolutionizing product development in your firm that speeds the right product to market. Built on over twenty years of experience with companies ranging in size from start-ups to global Fortune 100 companies, we identify the changes required and how to make them.
Program Experience
Ideally attended by a cross-functional team including marketing, engineering and operations, this two-day workshop uses a systemic approach that drives speed across all innovation stakeholders, compressing the development and processes of new new products from conception to launch wihtout cutting corners on key elements such as performance, safety and quality.
Using proven tools, we begin with ideation and finish at end-of-life. Throughout, we will highlight the crucial implementation issues and supply solutions to address them.
After completing the Accelerating Lean Product Development workshop, further tailor your organization's programs and goals by selecting informative technical marketing courses, leadership programs (Leadership: The People Challenge), or advanced topic workshops. This course can be incorporated to enhance a variety of custom programs.
Benefits
Custom Program Benefits
Provide a framework and language for communicating and engaging the firm in the challenges of lean product development.
Illustrate how to define and drive a "minimum viable product" discipline across the firm that delights customers while minimizing wasteful cost and needless feature development.
Using lean systems process analysis, provide a repeatable diagnostic that ferrets out non-value added work and time traps.
Underscore the primacy of effective and efficient portfolio management in addressing multiple product and customer requirements, handling interruptions and enhancing re-use before development begins.
Topics
Next-Generation Product Development: How globalization and technology change flow through the "product development funnel"
Planning and Pivoting: Driving speed and profitability through effective experimentation backed by portfolio metrics and risk management decisions that facilitate smart adaption to change
Strategic and Organization Alignment: Streamlining governance, decision making and resource supply/demand management for agile speed
Customer-engaged Process: How to use experimentation and prototypes to engage customers and where to stay clear
The Human Side of Speed: How to design, motivate and drive learning amongst cross-functional teams
Leadership: Deciding when and where to sprint, set tempo or pause to sustain a higher average speed
Who Should Attend
Best results occur when a team representing marketing, engineering, and manufacturing attends. The course is well-suited for technology leaders, group managers, product managers, and anyone who has a leadership role in bringing new products to market.
