"Don is a dynamic and influential resource who
effortlessly transfers knowledge, leverages experience and
provides clarity to typical product development pitfalls. He has
a knack of challenging existing paradigms and offering more
insightful approaches to enable excellence. Your eye-opening
experience is a seminar away."
Chris Bardeggia
Director of Engineering
Global Robust Product Design
Whirlpool Corporation
"This workshop outlays the true lean
ways to improve any product development path with clear and
measurable techniques."
Tim Acevedo
Group Leader
Engineering Product Innovation
Biolab, Inc.
"Great seminar
and presentation. "real life" examples provided great
clarification. I am convinced that lean method can be
implemented with ease and success. Instructor
is well versed and presents material in an understandable and
easy communicative manner."
Cindy Bracht
Door Team Leader
Marvin Windows & Doors
"One of the most useful seminars I
have attended."
Steve Milz
VP, Engineering
Lincoln Food Service
"thought provoking economic basis for decisions, queue analysis
- things I hadn't really considered prior to this course"
Mark Lazar
Manager, Electrical Engineering
Badger Meter, Inc.
"Two very good take-aways are:
- stage gate PDP is flawed in
implementation - we will have to rewrite our process
- usefulness of the cost of
delay calculation.
Also, lots of good reinforcement for small batch sizes"
Harold Devisser
Engineering Manager
Husky Injection Molding
“I was very encouraged to have rigor and benefit #’s associated
with “common sense,” which is often opposed to required work
processes and approaches. Using analytical tools will help me
form and articulate recommendations that will be believed and
have positive business impact.”
Jeff Coult
Sr. Manager, Engineering
Honeywell
"Many of the concepts and tools address issues and frustrations
that I have experienced in product development. I am energized
to bring them to my work."
Greg Williams
Group Manager R&D
Dade Behring
"Excellent session! Excellent instructor! Very informative...The
course does an excellent job applying lean principles and
methods to product development process."
John Manson
Engineering Manager
Kimball International
"Instructor extremely knowledgeable and insightful across a wide
range of industries."
Jim Holt
Manager of Systems Engineering
United Defense
"This workshop was very valuable.
We're going home with lots of ideas in how to approach improving
our R&D organization. The idea of taking small steps to improve
a piece of the process quickly is a good approach."
Ken Peterson
Product Development Director
Medtronic Physio-Control
"Good solid focus on product
development - introduced new concepts and also served to
reinforce core ideas from his product development books and tied
it all together nicely. Very practical, experience-based
information"
Dave Skerkoski
Development Manager
Keithley Instruments, Inc.
"The commonality and desire to
successfully implement new projects are gathered in one room.
This gathering of various companies sharing common issues is
comforting. We don't feel like we're on this deserted island
alone."
Jeffrey Ogi
IPD Lead
Parker Hannifin
"A secondary benefit is the side
discussions during meals and breaks. The group consists of
people dealing with similar issues. Hearing how they dealt with
items and discussing their needs was very helpful."
Randy Horning
Hardware Design Manager
LSI Logic
"Best linkage I've seen of LEAN
techniques /terminology to design/development activities."
Kathy Mullen
Design Quality Lead
United Defense
"Very useful, especially since it
was a smaller, more intimate group. Content was exceptional and
applies to so many and varied industries...Don is an excellent
speaker in keeping all participants involved and engaged."
Lisa Ottoson
AVP, Director Product Development
Federal Home Loan Bank
"Great points about how to apply
lean to R&D, especially around the information flow
applications...Good illustration of the differences between
manufacturing and R&D."
Alistair Norval
KOS Director
Eastman Kodak
"Excellent presentation of the key
differences between lean in manufacturing and in New Product
Development."
John Trainor
Director, Program Management
Duracell
"This was a great discussion and I
learned a lot about lean development and process technique. The
information that I obtained will be an asset for my company as
we evolve our PD/PM processes."
Richard Obiso
Senior Scientist, Project Analyst
Digene
