How to Design a Phase-Review process

About this Webinar

There is broad agreement that innovation, be it in terms of new technologies, new products or new service offerings is increasingly important.

Certainly product life cycles are shortening and customer expectations are growing. And yet recent studies have shown that the return from investment in innovation is incredibly variable. Organisations are ploughing huge amounts of resources into the next generation of products and services with no confidence of a result.

And yet best practices do exist. Practices that consistently prove to be more successful delivering better products, better services and better profits. One of these best practices is the disciplined use of Phase-Review Gates as the programme management platform for Development projects. Phase-Review Gates are certainly not the only technique, nor are they necessarily sufficient in isolation, but Phase-Review processes have proven to be fundamentally different and more effective than traditional project management approaches.

Whether you have an established Phase-Review process which needs revitalising, or whether you need to start from scratch, if you need to improve the design of your Phase-Review process then this Webinar is required listening. The session, will focus on some of the key criteria that need to be put in place in order to design a successful Phase-Review programme in your organisation.

Though created as a session in it's own right, this is the second in an in-depth series of 3 Webinars targeted at senior leaders to provide practical strategies and tools for ensuring the successful implementation of a Phase-Review / idea-to-launch process. The toolbox will cover elements of strategy, processes, metrics and culture to enable company leaders to decide whether and how to invest in Product and or Service development through this globally acknowledged NPD process.

Webinar Leader

Peter Hoyland Managing Director Bubble Group Ltd UK

Peter Hoyland is Managing Director of Bubble Group Ltd. A Chartered Engineer and a graduate of Oxford University, he began his career as a product developer for Thorn EMI and later for FKI plc.

He was an early adopter of Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) methods and became responsible for both mechanical design and manufacturing engineering. Peter then moved into consultancy, working with many companies to help establish and implement better approaches to product design and improve manufacturing efficiency.

In 1999, after ten years working for major consultancy companies, Peter became a founder of Bubble, a consultancy focused entirely on improving new product development processes. To name but a few, clients include, Cadbury, Dairy Crest, Rolls Royce, Johnson & Johnson, The Ministry of Defence, Toyota and Waterford Crystal.

Session Outline

The session will draw upon a wide range of examples from numerous organisations to illustrate the points made.

• Knowing whether you have an effective process – How can you tell?

• Critical success factors during the process design

• Improving the quality of decision making

• Designing effective Gate Criteria

• Aligning with Customer Gates

• Scalability – One process for all project types

• Integration with Quality Management Systems

• Making lives easier not harder

• The only effective way of using “Lessons Learned”

Key Insights

In this session Peter will:

• Describe all the primary design considerations for an effective Phase-Review process
• Provide examples of how these factors have been addressed in different sectors
• Provide a simple roadmap for designing your Phase-Review process

By attending you will:

• Understand the critical factors that are most likely to determine the design of your own idea-to-launch process
• Be able to begin defining a Phase-Review Process that is appropriate for your own business
• Be able to assess the probable strengths and weaknesses of your existing processes

Who should attend?

Managing Directors, Marketing Directors, Technical Directors, R&D Directors, New Product Development Professionals
 

Technical Requirements

An Internet connection with a browser is required for the visual presentation. For the audio component, a separate phone line is required (toll-free numbers are made available for most countries).

You will receive dialing and WebEx instructions via email prior to the Online Seminar taking place.