"Don is a dynamic and influential resource
who effortlessly transfers knowledge, leverages experience and
provides clarity to typical product development pitfalls. He has
a knack of challenging existing paradigms and offering more
insightful approaches to enable excellence. Your eye-opening
experience is a seminar away."
Chris Bardeggia
Director of Engineering
Global Robust Product Design
Whirlpool Corporation
"This workshop outlays the true lean
ways to improve any product development path with clear and
measurable techniques."
Tim Acevedo
Group Leader
Engineering Product Innovation
Biolab, Inc.
"Great seminar
and presentation. "real life" examples provided great
clarification. I am convinced that lean method can be
implemented with ease and success. Instructor
is well versed and presents material in an understandable and
easy communicative manner."
Cindy Bracht
Door Team Leader
Marvin Windows & Doors
"One of the most useful seminars I
have attended."
Steve Milz
VP, Engineering
Lincoln Food Service
"thought provoking economic basis for decisions, queue analysis
- things I hadn't really considered prior to this course"
Mark Lazar
Manager, Electrical Engineering
Badger Meter, Inc.
"Two very good take-aways are:
- stage gate PDP is flawed in
implementation - we will have to rewrite our process
- usefulness of the cost of
delay calculation.
Also, lots of good reinforcement for small batch sizes"
Harold Devisser
Engineering Manager
Husky Injection Molding
I was very encouraged to have rigor and benefit #s associated
with common sense, which is often opposed to required work
processes and approaches. Using analytical tools will help me
form and articulate recommendations that will be believed and
have positive business impact.
Jeff Coult
Sr. Manager, Engineering
Honeywell
"Many of the concepts and tools address issues and frustrations that I have
experienced in product development. I am energized to bring them to my work."
Greg Williams
Group Manager R&D
Dade Behring
"Excellent session! Excellent instructor! Very informative...The course does an
excellent job applying lean principles and methods to product development process."
John Manson
Engineering Manager
Kimball International
"Instructor extremely knowledgeable and insightful across a wide range of
industries."
Jim Holt
Manager of Systems Engineering
United Defense
"This workshop was very valuable. We're going home
with lots of ideas in how to approach improving our R&D organization. The idea of
taking small steps to improve a piece of the process quickly is a good approach."
Ken Peterson
Product Development Director
Medtronic Physio-Control
"Good solid focus on product development - introduced
new concepts and also served to reinforce core ideas from his product development books
and tied it all together nicely. Very practical, experience-based information"
Dave Skerkoski
Development Manager
Keithley Instruments, Inc.
"The commonality and desire to successfully implement
new projects are gathered in one room. This gathering of various companies sharing common
issues is comforting. We don't feel like we're on this deserted island alone."
Jeffrey Ogi
IPD Lead
Parker Hannifin
"A secondary benefit is the side discussions during
meals and breaks. The group consists of people dealing with similar issues. Hearing how
they dealt with items and discussing their needs was very helpful."
Randy Horning
Hardware Design Manager
LSI Logic
"Best linkage I've seen of LEAN techniques
/terminology to design/development activities."
Kathy Mullen
Design Quality Lead
United Defense
"Very useful, especially since it was a smaller, more
intimate group. Content was exceptional and applies to so many and varied industries...Don
is an excellent speaker in keeping all participants involved and engaged."
Lisa Ottoson
AVP, Director Product Development
Federal Home Loan Bank
"Great points about how to apply lean to R&D,
especially around the information flow applications...Good illustration of the differences
between manufacturing and R&D."
Alistair Norval
KOS Director
Eastman Kodak
"Excellent presentation of the key differences
between lean in manufacturing and in New Product Development."
John Trainor
Director, Program Management
Duracell
"This was a great discussion and I learned a lot
about lean development and process technique. The information that I obtained will be an
asset for my company as we evolve our PD/PM processes."
Richard Obiso
Senior Scientist, Project Analyst
Digene
