Maximizing your Productivity in Product Innovation
14 - 15 May 2009
Sheraton Hotel, Heathrow, London
A Two Day intensive, hands-on workshop from the world's most respected NPD expert on Best Practices Techniques for Accelerating your New Product Process.
For companies who have already introduced a new product process (such as Stage-GateTM) an yet are still struggling to get the financial returns they expected.
Agenda - Day 2
THE TRUE ANATOMY OF PRODUCTIVITY
| 8.00 | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
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| 8.30 | REVIEW SESSION Review of unresolved issues from Day One and discussion of learning objectives for Day Two. |
| 9.00 | SESSION VIII DATA INTEGRITY AND GETTING THE FACTS You can’t make good new product decisions with bad data! So focusing on the front-end and doing up-front homework – that is, market studies,technical assessments and business analysis – improves the odds of project success. But how much homework is enough? And what is the right homework to do?
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| 10.30 | Networking Break |
| 10.45 | SESSION IX SELECTING PROJECTS TO YIELD THE RIGHT BALANCE & MIX IN YOUR DEVELOPMENT PORTFOLIO Most poor performing companies have far too high a proportion of smaller, low risk and lower value projects. Topics are: |
| 12.30 | Networking Lunch |
| 13.30 | SESSION X IMPLEMENTING GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NPD – GETTING THE GATES AND PORTFOLIO REVIEWS WORKING RIGHT As go the gates so goes the process! But most companies confess to serious problems with their gates – an inability to kill bad projects, too much bureaucracy and a failure to commit the needed resources. This practical “how-to” session includes:
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| 15.15 | Networking Break |
| 15.30 | SESSION XI: GROUP EXCERSICE BACK TO YOUR BUSINESS – AN IMPLEMENTATION ACTION PLAN This final session is an opportunity for participants to reflect on and discuss what they will take back and implement at their businesses. Each participant will take away a step-by-step action plan to adapt and implement the many learnings and insights from the seminar. |
| 15.30 | SESSION XII Wrap-up and Q&A |
| 16.30 | End of Seminar - Beginning of Implementation |
Event Sponsors:
Bubble is a leading consulting firm specialising in new product development and commercialisation. Working across Europe and North America we help our clients achieve their growth targets through improved product strategies and innovation processes. We apply our extensive experience of world class processes for identifying the right products, accelerating their development, powering their commercialisation and establishing the right supply chains to maximise their profitability.
Innovation Framework Technologies specialises in helping companies to build and implement robust innovation processes for repeatable success. Our software based solution delivers world-class best practices and processes for integrated portfolio, Stage-GateTM, project and idea management, and cuts the time, cost and complexity of managing innovation.
Strategyn is the pioneer and leader in Outcome-Driven Innovation - a methodology that shatters the myths and barriers that have stifled the success of the voice-of-the-customer movement. Our intriguing perspective and theory on innovation dramatically improves a company’s ability to achieve core market growth, create new markets, pursue disruptive strategies and streamline internal business processes.
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