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-Gate^TM) an yet are still struggling to get the financial returns they expected.

deliverables

Following participation of this workshop you will be able to:

1. Accelerate your NPD process and dramatically increase profits, success rates and time to market methods based on what the top performing firms are doing.
2. Impliment NexGen Stage-Gate® and Stage-Gate® XPress to accelerate your gating and portfolio management process – make Go-Kill decisions more swiftly.
3. Right-size your idea-to-launch system and allow for flexibility and scalability – to suit different sizes, types and risk-level projects.
4. Determine what data is critical to make key development decisions and how to accelerate its generation and improve its integrity.
5. Significantly improve your gating and portfolio management process to identify higher value projects, yet make decisions faster and more efficiently – “lean gates with teeth”.
6. Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the front-end of projects – doing the right front-end homework, and strategies to build voice of the customer.
7. Balance the need for sharp, early product definition with the desire to remain flexible and respond to dynamic market conditions and needs.
8. Determine the right mix of development projects – large versus small; long term versus short term; significant new products versus minor tweaks.
9. Decrease cycle time and slip rate through effective resource management.
10. Screen out bad projects early on and ensure that resources are allocated on time to winning projects.

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-Gate^TM, 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.