A Problem Solving Approach to Product Development

Many companies have identified problems with their Product Development Process. Generally, there are two major issues:

1. Poor quality of delivery of the product and process to manufacturing.
2. The time is too long to meet market needs.

The trend in the Lean community is to apply the Lean product development principles and practices to their existing system to make improvements. Often, this approach adds more work and confusion without examining what has caused the performance problems. They are imposing different rules to follow rather than engage their organization for continuous improvement. 

This workshop takes a different approach: It uses a problem solving-continuous improvement approach to improve the performance issues of product development.

What Will You Learn?

• How to identify the performance problem
• How to engage your product development people in getting to the root cause of the problems
• How to select the high leverage Lean Principles for improvement
• How to create a fast learning process to maximize your speed of delivery
• how to learn how to learn - Product Development is about Knowledge Creation

Who Should Attend? 

• Engineering managers interested in improving the product development process through application of lean principles for learning
• Leaders wanting to understand how to apply these lean principles in their organization
• Managers with experience in lean transformations and/or product development
• Leaders with a role in developing new products/services for their organization

This workshop is created and instructed by LTG Partner, Jim Luckman.