Tuesday, September 25
12:15pm - 1:45pm
The purpose of the breakout luncheon is to provide you with
information about a specific approach or solution and to give
you the opportunity to ask questions in an informal setting. It
is also a chance for you to meet with others who have similar
interests.
Knowledge-Centric
New Product Development
Accelerating
NPD Decision-Making 
Charles "Chad" Weinstein
Director, Knowledge Management Services
Sopheon Corporation
Research indicates that nearly
half of new product development (NPD) efforts fail. This
presentation explores how a growing number of companies are
beating these odds by deploying proven information management
technologies and techniques and improved market, competitive and
technology research in novel ways. These NPD organizations are
becoming "knowledge-centric," demonstrating:
- Improved ideation and innovation
- Better-informed strategic decision-making, selecting
winning projects, etc.
- Coordinated and informed project teams
- Collaborative work processes within and among project
teams
- Learning that is shared among projects and captured for
future re-use.
This presentation will focus on
an evolutionary process for developing these features, using
examples from research a
nd
client engagements.
Make
profits, not processes:
Using constraint-anchored
throughput management
Sanjeev Gupta
CEO
Speed to Market
Do you want nicely documented
processes in an ivory tower? Or do you want economic benefits?
One does not necessarily lead to another. In fact, more than 90%
of all business process reengineering efforts fail to deliver
bottom line results.
This session will present a powerful approach successfully
used by companies like LSI Logic, Lucent, Medtronic, Phillips
and Seagate to:
- Identify NPD constraints
- Optimize processes to get the most from these constraints
- Develop strategies to remove the constraints
XIS
Breakout
