A LEAN product-development seminar: a good place to start

<a href="shared-pages/seminar-lean-product-development-participants.html">Lean Product Development: Previous Participants</a> Competition and the demand for shorter time-to-market keep getting tougher. Lean Product Development is the latest tool. Do you know its potential and pitfalls? If not, you should attend this seminar. The international authority Dr Cooper - and the originator of Stage-Gate® - brings you at the cutting edge with your competitors. Trimming the fat is not enough! Lean has been used in production for years. Now it's product development's turn. Leading companies eliminate waste, reduce bureaucracy and cut development time. Trimming the fat is not enough, however. The best companies focus on profit improvements - on ways to develop impact new products. And most of all, they ensure that the steps to reduce wastage don't end up starving their projects and hurting profits. An integrated toolkit with documented impact The seminar gives you a coherent, integrated toolkit for lean product development. The impact is proven through the studies of over 400 companies. In addition, Cooper illustrates his points by a wealth of real-life examples. You will be updated on the latest principles, including <ul type="circle"> <li>Toyota's Lean Principles and how to convert and apply them to your own development process.</li> <li>The six most important causes of waste and how to eliminate them.</li> <li>NexGen Stage-Gate®: a new simpler, faster and more flexible process.</li> <li>The seven Lean principles including customer focus, flexible product definitions and 'spiral development'.</li> <li>Resource management and Go/Kill decisions: reduce waiting time by establishing balance between projects and resources and use methods for selecting the most valuable projects </li> </ul>

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A seminar in your own company
A seminar or a management workshop is an excellent starting point for implementing Lean in your organization. U3's seminars have achieved top-ratings from the participants as inspiring, well-founded and packed with real-life examples and techniques you can start to implement right away.

Choose the seminar that is right for your company
We can deliver an instructive talk at a company conference or a full two or three-day intensive training programme on how to increase productivity in new-product development. We can also organize a management workshop where we introduce and discuss the lean principles and the approach your company can take to make lean, rapid and profitable product development generate results for you.

Some participant evaluations
I have never participated in a seminar that was so relevant to my current job as this one.
Carsten Engelsfelt, Project Manager, Uponor A/S, Denmark

The content of the seminar is very relevant and was elegantly presented by Cooper who managed to hold the participants' attention. Especially all the good examples and case stories from the real world were great!
Bo Jürgensen, Head of Automotive Product Development, Bang & Olufsen, Denmark

Mr. Cooper has already been # 1 in NPD for years and makes excellent presentations. He always comes up with practical solutions. This is also what I highly appreciate in his books: practical, not too difficult language (remember: English is not the mother tongue of many people!), and based on the vast experience of many companies. Great!
Dr. Mario G.R.T. de Cooker, Senior Technology Advisor, DSM b.v., The Netherlands

The seminar was highly relevant to the challenges we see in working with Stage Gate today. It inspired me to changes that can speed up the process and be more on target.
Jannike Kolrud, Senior Project Manager, Stabburet/Orkla Foods, Norway

Make your company aware of the potential

Sample programme
See the programme from our most recent seminar on Lean Product Development.
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