Accelerating Lean Product Development

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.

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. 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.

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.