Schedule
Day 1, March 28, 2023 – Make your Innovation Process Adaptive, Lean, Accelerated
Morning
9:00
Introductions, Purpose & Outline
9:30
Innovation Challenges and Why New Products Succeed
- Winners versus losers – what do the best firms do differently?
- What are the really important common denominators of new-product success?
- The seven most important practices to build into your new-product methods
10:45
Networking Break
11:10
Deep Dive: Effective and Efficient Gatekeeping
11:50
Interactive Exercise: Gap analysis current practice vs. best practice
12:10
Hot Questions (collect)
12:30
Lunch Break
Afternoon
13:45
Hot Questions on Morning Session
14:00
Fifth Generation Stage Gate® – Iterative, Adaptive, Lean, Accelerated
- What the best new product systems look like, and how they work
- Adapting your process – for different sizes and types of projects
- Iterative development – getting the product right at higher speed
15:15
Networking Break
15:30
Fifth Generation Stage Gate® – Iterative, Adaptive, Lean, Accelerated (continued)
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Parallel processing and simultaneous execution – accelerating the process
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Value stream analysis – making the innovation process leaner, more productive, faster
16:00
Interactive Exercise: Making interactive & lean development work in your business
16:30
Hot Questions & in depth consultative session
17:00
Merging Agile with Stage Gate: The Best of Both Worlds
- Borrowing Agile methods from software for physical product development by manufacturers
- Continued next day
17:30
End of Day 1
19:30
This evening, five is invites all participants to a networking reception and dinner.
Day 2, March 29, 2023 – Agile Stage-Gate Hybrid Model, Innovation Governance and Culture
Morning
8:30
Warming up, Hot Questions
8:45
Continued: Merging Agile with Stage Gate: The Best of Both Worlds
- Applying Agile methods within your Stage-Gate system for both hardware and hardware/software
- Getting management buy-in
- Dealing with evolving product definitions versus design freezes; and what about project plans and Voice of Customer?
- Finding the needed resources for dedicated teams
- When to use Agile-Stage-Gate? What about gates?
10:00
Networking Break
10:15
Interactive Exercise: Making “agile” work in your business
10:45
Hot Questions on Agile Stage-Gate
11:15
Your Business’s Product Innovation Strategy
- Setting goals & objectives for product innovation
- Ensuring a robust innovation strategy in this fast-paced and digital world
- Deciding where to focus and how – strategic arenas and attack plans
12:00
Lunch Break
Afternoon
13:15
Managing Your Innovation Portfolio: Getting the right mix & balance of projects and picking the winners
- Making the right R&D and new-product investment decsions
- Effective project selection – best-practice methods, including profiling, scorecards, and the productivity index
- Dealing with risk, uncertainty, project ambiguity (as in Agile projects)
- Using strategic buckets to get the right mix & balance of projects
14:45
Networking Break
15:00
Interactive Exercise: Innovation Strategy and Portfolio Management in your organization
15:20
Creating the Right Climate & Agile Stage-Gate Mindset
16:20
Hot Questions & in depth consultative session
16:40
Next Steps for You – Making it work in your own company
17:00
End of Seminar – Beginning of Implementation
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