- This event will take place June 25, 2009 -
See special note to the left regarding co-located events.

A one-day, intensive seminar focused on applying lean product development practices to streamline processes, reduce product cost and create profitable customer satisfaction.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Bart Huthwaite, Sr.
Founder
Institute for Lean Innovation

Led by Bart Huthwaite, a world-renowned expert in the fields of product development and innovation, this seminar's curriculum is divided into two sections:

PART ONE:
The Lean Innovation Challenge

The first half day will be focused on applying lean principles to streamline the development process, including identifying and eliminating waste, allocating resources, managing teams, measuring progress and creating better flow of information. You will also hear from an industry practitioner about their experiences implementing lean product development and lessons learned.

PART TWO:
Lean by Design

The second half day will be focused on applying best practices in lean product design, including simultaneous methods for dramatically reducing product cost while improving innovation and customer value. The tools and techniques learned in this session will explore proven strategies for both improving your margin as well as identifying the critical product components and features that increase market share and market size. Several examples will be given from actual product designs, including an expanded case study given by an industry practitioner.

AGENDA

9:00-9:20        Welcome and Introduction: What it Means to be “Lean”, Gregg Tong, Management Roundtable

I. The Lean Innovation Challenge

9:20-10:30      Combining Game Changing Thinking with Cost, Quality and Speed, Bart Huthwaite

10:30-10:45    Break

10:45-11:45    Walking the Talk: Applying Lean Principles to the “Process” of Product Development, Bart Huthwaite

                        Includes Interactive Exercise: Creating an Innovative Development Process

11:45-12:15    Industry Case Study: Lean Product Development Process Management at Raytheon, Speaker TBA

12:15-1:15      Lunch

I. Lean By Design

1:15-2:45        The Five Laws of Lean Product Design, Bart Huthwaite

                        Includes Interactive Exercise: Creating a Lean Design Product

2:45-3:00        Break

3:00-4:15        The Seven Essential Lean Design Skills

4:15-4:45        Industry Case Study: Transforming Product Cost through Lean Design, Tim Schipper & Mark Swets, Steelcase

4:45-5:00        Wrap-up / Final Q&A

PROGRAM OUTLINE

PART ONE:
The Lean Innovation Challenge

The first half day will be focused on applying lean principles to streamline the development process, including identifying and eliminating waste, allocating resources, managing teams, measuring progress and creating better flow of information. You will also hear from an industry practitioner about their experiences implementing lean product development and lessons learned.

Interactive Exercise: Attendees will also participate in an interactive exercise designed to provide hands-on experience for creating an innovative development process.

Featured Industry Case Study: Raytheon Corporation
Hear about Raytheon’s experience implementing a Lean Product Development process in their missile systems division.

You will learn:

• How to expand your lean efforts from manufacturing to engineering and R&D
• How to identify waste in your development process, the sources that drive them and methods for elimination and prevention
• What you should learn from the Toyota example and what you should not emulate
• The “Sharks of Change” and how to combat them
• Why so many fail at implementing lean product development and how to avoid the same traps and pitfalls
• How to use the Lean InnovationCUBE to reduce cost, speed time to market, and assure quality from Day One

SPECIAL BONUS: All participants will receive a complimentary desktop InnovationCUBE which will be used during the seminar and will help attendees to implement what they’ve learned when they return to their companies.

PART TWO:
Lean by Design

The second half day will be focused on applying best practices in lean product design, including simultaneous methods for dramatically reducing product cost while improving innovation and customer value. The tools and techniques learned in this session will explore proven strategies for both improving your margin as well as identifying the critical product components and features that increase market share and market size. Several examples will be given from actual product designs, including an expanded case study given by an industry practitioner.

Interactive Exercise: Attendees will also participate in an interactive exercise designed to provide hands-on experience for implementing the techniques of lean design.

Featured Industry Case Study: Steelcase, Inc.
Tim Schipper & Mark Swets, Internal Lean Consultants, Steelcase, Inc.
Learn how lean design principles are applied at Steelcase, Inc., a global leader in the office furniture industry.

You will learn:

• The hidden economics of your product’s design and how to manipulate this to your advantage

• The 8 primary values that all customers crave and the 7 wasteful design solutions that defeat six sigma quality and low cost

• How to minimize risk by ensuring product reliability and quality while reducing costs and cycle time

• About the Five Laws of Lean Product Design and the Lean Design Checklist

• The Seven Essential Lean Design Skills and how to apply them

About Bart Huthwaite

Bart Huthwaite, Sr. is a world renowned expert in innovation leadership. He is the founder of the Institute for Lean Innovation and the thought leader in the emerging business process known as "Systematic Corporate Innovation." This is a method for giving managers the knowledge to make corporate innovation understandable, repeatable and very importantly, measurable.

Huthwaite has mentored managers and teams in corporate innovation worldwide at more than 1,000 companies over the past 30 years. He is the author of numerous books, most recently The Rules of Innovation and Lean Design Solution: A Practical Guide to Streamlining Product Design and Development. He is also the creator of the InnovationCUBE, a method for bringing a higher level of innovation to any project.

About Management Roundtable

The Management Roundtable (MRT) is the leading knowledge and networking resource for product developers. Practitioner-oriented and unbiased, our focus is on providing actionable information about new strategies and processes that enable speed, innovation, profitability, and overall competitive advantage. Founded in 1980, Management Roundtable publishes research reports and hosts events on key areas of product development. MRT’s online service, FastTrack was launched in 2004 to provide continuous, unlimited access to new insights and networking opportunities.