Better, Faster, Cheaper - Sharpening your New Product Development Process (NPD)
Date: June 22, 2006 9:00-5:00
Cost: $295 (includes all materials and lunch)
Better, Faster, Cheaper is a one-day workshop designed to give you the tools to evaluate and optimize the performance of your NPD process.
This is achieved through a series of tutorials, exercises and discussion, which will enable you to introduce a streamlined, market-focused NPD process. |
If you’re a manager or engineer leading new product development, you’ve probably experienced some or all of the following frustrations:
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Delayed launch
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Sales revenue/profit below forecast
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Redesigns after launch to resolve performance or quality issues
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Apparent lack of communication between departments
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Conflicts of authority over development team members
If so, then Better, Faster, Cheaper is for you!
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Topics include:
- The effects of a poor NPD process
- Why a well designed stage-gate process is critical to success
- Stage-gate process overview
- Key variables – how to decide what’s best for you
- Detail definition and documentation
- Launching the new NPD Process
- Potential barriers & continuous review
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Your Facilitator:
This workshop will be delivered by Eliot Crowe, a product development manager with over 10 years of experience in running NPD projects and developing NPD procedures for various companies in the USA and Europe. He has experience as a Director of Engineering, New Product Introduction Manager, and as a Design Engineer. Eliot has delivered NPD training all over the world for groups of all sizes representing a range of manufacturing industries.
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