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DAY TWO - Tuesday, April 8 - 1:15pm-2:30pm
Process Improvement Roundtables
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Practitioner-led, candid dialogues on key practices,
tools and processes for long-term impact. You�re at the
conference half-way point � a perfect time to start to
examine some of the concepts and issues more closely in
small discussion groups.
Roundtable topics to include:
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Key Steps to Ensure Effective
Process Implementation |
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FACILITATOR
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Jefferson Hynds
Program Manager, Enterprise Focus Area
Ingersoll Rand |
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Deploying roadmapping,
portfolio management and open innovation processes often
requires a significant change in the culture of an
organization. The transition can be facilitated by
getting people engaged in process development and
setting goals that drive continuous improvement.
This breakout will discuss
specific steps that companies can take to ensure
effective implementation. |
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B |
How to Manage a Diverse
Portfolio of Projects |
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FACILITATOR
Ben Almojuela
Associate Technical Fellow
Boeing Commercial Airplanes |
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Unless you are a very
small organization, product development activity is
seemingly chaotic, ranging over a multitude of diverse
topics, time scales, and payoffs. How do you rationally
manage a diverse portfolio of PD or R&D projects? How do
you measure the value of your portfolio? |
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C |
Bridging the Strategy/Planning
Gaps between "Customer Needs�, �Competitive Threats� and
"Technology Solutions� with Product and Technology
Roadmaps. |
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FACILITATOR
Richard Traxler
Senior Manager, Technology Planning
Boston Scientific |
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The discussion in this
session will focus on how to use Product and Technology
Roadmaps to set a common direction for the various
functions of the organization. |
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D |
The Status of Gated Development
Processes |
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FACILITATOR
Bruce Kirk
Director, Innovation Effectiveness
Corning |
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Over the past couple of
years, gated development processes have come under harsh
criticism for potentially hampering innovation and
slowing product development efforts. Is your
organization finding it necessary to make changes to its
gated process? What�s really working and what�s not? |
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E |
Aligning Business Goals and Technical Strategy |
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FACILITATOR
Alison Lukascko
President
Lighthouse Innovations |
and former VP, R&D
Church & Dwight |
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How do you improve return
on R&D investment? How do you align internal research
and open innovation agendas? |
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Key Strategies for Implementing Lean
Product Development |
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FACILITATOR
Bernard North
VP Global Research, Development & Engineering
Kennametal |
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Lean techniques from the
factory are moving upstream into product development.
While product development is very different from
manufacturing, some lean concepts do work quite well in
product development, but other lean concepts can be
quite dangerous. The discussion in this session will
focus on how to choose and implement that the lean
concepts that work well and how to avoid the lean
concepts that don't make sense. |
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G |
Aligning Metrics For Innovation And
Product Development |
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FACILITATOR
Jan Wells
Director,
Corporate Project Management Office
Millipore |
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The ability to fill your
product development pipeline with innovative new ideas
while simultaneously reducing time to market often seem
to be in conflict. This discussion will focus on
selecting and linking metrics to manage the fuzzy front
end as well as streamline the development process.
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