Bringing the Value of Lean to Product Development

	Live Audio-Session with Mark Thut [BIO] Director Product Development and Innovation Management PRTM
	and Oliver Hazimeh [BIO] Director Automotive, Aerospace and Industrial Transportation Industry Group PRTM

Is your company continually seeking to do more with less in product development? To increase speed, productivity, and innovation?

For decades, Lean concepts, which focus on eliminating waste and improving quality, have been a best practice for manufacturing companies.

Today Lean concepts are becoming popular outside the factory floor as companies are pushing to achieve more with fewer resources. Complex product development is one area where Lean shows especially strong potential to deliver. Today, many innovation leaders, including Boeing, Bristol Myers Squibb, Toyota and Kodak, are applying Lean Product Development. When done correctly, Lean delivers the “trifecta” of product development: speed, productivity and innovation.

In this audio-session you will learn how you can transform your product development efforts.

By participating you will come away:

1. A model for managing lean product development

2. The drivers for level loading input into development

3. Workflows and value stream mapping design and development

4. The roles of program leaders, functional managers and work groups

5. Knowledge capture and learning

6. Product leverage and reuse

Led by Mark Thut, Director, Product Development and Innovation Management, PRTM, this dynamic session will provide you and your team with specific tips to bring lean product development to your company.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to bring your own experiences (and questions) into the discussion and receive expert feedback. The session will be a 90-minute presentation with frequent opportunities for questions and answers.

Invite your whole team to join you - the fee is the same as long as it's on one phone line, just put it on speakerphone! This session is an excellent opportunity for everyone on your product development team to listen together. (For team members in different locations, it is well worth adding line(s).)

Mark Thut
Director
Product Development
and Innovation Management
PRTM

Mark Thut is a Director in the Product Development Practice at global management consulting firm PRTM.With over 20 years of experience in operations and business management, his areas of expertise include the design and implementation of innovative management practices and capabilities, particularly within organizations responsible for complex engineered products. Mr. Thut has experience working with companies in the automotive, industrial, aerospace, and materials industries. Prior to joining PRTM, he held a variety of engineering and product management positions at General Electric, Ford Motor Company, and Emerson Electric. Mr. Thut holds advanced degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University and serves on Northwestern University’s Masters in Manufacturing Management Advisory Board.

Oliver Hazimeh
Director - Automotive, Aerospace and Industrial Transportation Industry Group
PRTM

Oliver is a Director of the Automotive, Aerospace and Industrial Transportation industry group at PRTM management consultants. He has been a consultant to leading automotive manufacturers in North America and Europe for more than 13 years where he has been involved in the design and implementation of strategic operations improvement programs for automotive OEMs, Commercial Vehicle OEMs and key Tier 1 suppliers. His experience spans the business strategy, product strategy, product development and engineering and procurement areas. Prior to joining PRTM, he was a Principal at A.T. Kearney where he worked for 8 years. Oliver is a Fulbright scholar and holds an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an Engineering BS degree from the Technical University of Berlin in Germany.