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Course
Instructor:
Preston G. Smith
Co-Author,
Developing Products in Half-the-Time |
About the Instructor
Preston Smith, through his
consulting and
 training
activities over the past twenty years, has helped many companies to
become more dynamic in how they develop new products. As co-author
of the popular book, Developing Products in Half-the-Time
(over 80,000 copies in use), he has been a leader in shortening time
to market.
His new book, Flexible Product Development: Building Agility
for Changing Markets
is a twenty-first century expression of time to market.
Smith says, “We
used to measure time from when you began a project, but in an
environment of change, the starting time that really matters is time
from when you can make the last change in the design, and
flexibility shortens this cycle time.”
Preston
Smith has led more than 100 workshops in 25 countries
worldwide on advanced product development topics and has taught
product development courses at several universities. Companies that
have attended his workshops include: Siemens, Sony, Motorola,
Medtronic, Kraft, Philips, Samsung, DaimlerChrysler, and Honeywell.
Over a twenty-year period prior to his consulting career, he held
engineering and management positions with North American Aviation
(now part of Boeing), Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, IBM, Bell
Laboratories (now Lucent Technologies), and General Motors Research
Laboratories.
He is book review
editor for the Journal of Product Innovation Management, holds a
Ph.D. in engineering from Stanford University, and is a member of
the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the Agile
Alliance, and the Agile Project Leadership Network. |
