Second Generation Lean Product Development

MRT has updated our 2-day workshop with Don Reinertsen, now called "Second Generation Lean Product Development: Applying the Principles of Flow". Originally offered under the name, "Achieving Lean Product Development," this workshop has been modified to reflect the changes that have been made to the course curriculum since its inception.  Please read a special note from Don Reinertsen about the most recent updates to this workshop and whether or not this warrants repeat attendance by previous participants. The next session of this popular workshop will be held May 12-13, 2010 in San Diego.  Early registration is advised as this course often sells out in advance.

2010 Innovation Leadership Guru Series

2010 Innovation Leadership Guru Series starts February 24 and runs through April 7, with five of the nation’s foremost innovation experts on such topics as "peripheral vision," innovation in emerging markets such as China and India, alliance ecosystems and "compartnering" (Cisco's approach), second generation lean practices, and leading organizational change. Gurus include:1. GEORGE DAY, Wharton professor, 2. NAVI RADJOU, Executive Director, Centre for India & Global Business, University of Cambridge 3. STEVE STEINHILBER, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Cisco, 4. DON REINERTSEN, author of The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development, and 5. MICHAEL WATKINS, author of Your Next Move. Space is limited, sign up today!

CoDev Interviews: Norma Watenpaugh

CoDev Interviews feature one-on-one conversations with people behind pioneering research and accomplishments in the field of open Innovation. Now Playing: Norma Watenpaugh founding principal of PhoenixCG. She is a Global Board Member of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals and editor of their Alliance Best Practices Bulletin. LISTEN NOW

NEW CoDev Interview Series: Dr. Letizia Mortara

Featuring one-on-one conversations with people behind pioneering research and accomplishments in the field of open Innovation. Now Playing: Dr. Letizia Mortara, Research Associate, University of Cambridge, co-author of a new research report: How to implement open innovation: lessons from studying large multinational companies. LISTEN NOW

How 3M Modifies Metrics According to the Economy

Check out two all new interviews just posted on the PDmetrics.com website:

LINKING METRICS TO STRATEGY

w/Bradford L. Goldense, Goldense Group, Inc.  

In this 40 minute interview, Brad Goldense discusses the progress that organizations are making on measuring innovation, the growing importance and value of intellectual property, emerging predictive metrics and on the need to link development metrics to overall corporate strategy.

RECALIBRATING METRICS FOR NEW ECONOMIC PRIORITIES

w/Peter Fritz, 3M 

In this roughly 20 minute interview, Peter Fritz discusses how the emphasis of metrics has shifted at 3M over the past few years, the value of technology development and the need to continually recalibrate metrics to reflect new economic realities.

To listen, click here.

A Special Message from CoDev Chair, Cheryl Perkins...

It seems like I just finished recapping everything that took place at CoDev2009, and now the opening of CoDev2010 is less than four months away! I am excited to report that this year’s agenda is sure to overwhelm attendees with a powerful representation of open innovation thought and action leaders who have committed to share their experience and experiences with us...continued.

Expert Warns: "Current State of R&D Metrics...is bad."

Product development expert and bestselling author, Wayne Mackey, thinks that while most companies have their hearts in the right place when it comes to R&D metrics, the way in which they are typically implemented and used range from marginally useful to potentially hazardous.

“10 or 15 years ago,” said Mackey, “people really started to take measurement seriously, and though I’m not sure we’ve gone backwards, we haven’t gone very far forward. [People] spend a lot of time and money collecting information, but even the people doing the work know there’s not a lot of value in it. None of the concepts behind performance measurement are wrong, but we’ve lost our way on the basics of what we’re measuring and why.” 

For example, Mackey offers the metric that a majority of companies use to determine their company’s innovation activity: “% of sales from new products.” When companies started to measure this....continued

Voice of the Customer Research Technique that Works (Free Download)

Visiting customers can be a very effective way to gain insights that can help differentiate your product in the marketplace by discovering unmet customer needs that your next release can help address. However, it is important to conduct customer visits properly. Dr. Ed McQuarrie author of Customer Visits offers 16 tips to make your customer visits as effective as possible in this free download.

Sleepless Over Innovation

What keeps you up at night? Personally I’m troubled by what I read in the news these days – and not just about Iran, North Korea, or even Madoff. I'm worried about product development and innovation.(read more)

Posted by Jackie Cooper on July 2, 2009 at 7:00am
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Five Easy Pieces for Product Developers