This workshop is designed to introduce the principles of Lean R&D and practical strategies for transforming your R&D organization into a Lean innovation engine. Through hands-on practice, participants will learn how to:

• Apply Lean principles and theory to solve basic innovation problems
• Integrate multiple innovation problems into fast, high performing R&D projects and systems
• Master techniques to manage these systems to deliver on time at lowered risk
• Implement proven methods to create R&D strategy and continually improve R&D system performance
• Define R&D projects on the basis of clear, fundamental innovation problems that must be solved, and apply multiple approaches to achieve needed innovation
• Increase the rate of innovation by creating multiple small, fast-moving, low risk sub-projects to solve innovation problems
• Align sub-projects into smoothly connected R&D systems to significantly decrease time to market
• Reduce timeline risk by transforming project management systems to manage innovation growth versus task completion

Course Instructor: Dr. Terence M. (Terry) Barnhart
Senior Director – Stragegy and Continuous Improvement, Pfizer Global Research and Development

Limited to 35 participants - Register today to ensure your spot!

About the Instructor

Dr. Terence (Terry) Barnhart is Senior Director of Continuous Improvement and Strategic Management and leader of Pfizer's Agile R&D Team. In his current role, Dr. Barnhart develops and leads implementation of Agile R&D, a Lean transformation effort tailored to the culture of Pfizer Global R&D. Agile R&D is designed specifically to implant fast-learning systems to improve the innovation, quality and speed of pharmaceutical R&D, and has been applied in the redesign of management systems, business unit strategy and strategic planning, as well as cultural change within Pfizer.

Prior to joining Pfizer, Terry worked as a management consultant at McKinsey and Company, as a research scientist at General Electric, and as a manager at Schering-Plough and Uniroyal Plastics. He holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, and a B.Sc. and Postdoctoral fellowship in chemistry from the University of Michigan, and is the author of numerous patents, and scientific and business publications.
 

Key Benefits

Lean has long been used by manufacturers as a way to reduce costs, increase speed and deliver superior quality. In fact, it has proven so valuable to manufacturers that as many as 80% have implemented Lean in some form or another on the factory floor. By contrast, Lean has been slow to reach R&D, perhaps out of fear that Lean will somehow stifle innovation. As a result, only a handful of Lean R&D examples have surfaced, but in these examples, we find remarkable opportunity for the R&D function. In many cases, R&D output has more than doubled under constant budgets; innovation has soared; time to market has dropped as much as 50%; and customer satisfaction has greatly improved. In a recessionary time of falling budgets and increasing competitive pressure, a Lean R&D function is a competitive weapon that can only increase in value as the economy recovers.

By participating in this workshop, you will come away with:

1. A detailed understanding of the true drivers of R&D value
2. Techniques for identifying customer- and company-valued innovation needs
3. Methods to map and prioritize critical innovation needs
4. Strategies for how to benefit from fast learning/fast innovation
5. A3 methods for solving single and complex innovation problems
6. Processes for mapping and improving innovation value streams to seamlessly integrate the myriad R&D project functions so that innovations can reach the market faster and with less risk
7. Project management methods to (by tracking and managing how R&D problems are solved) ensure that timelines are met and innovation is achieved
8. Practical approaches to develop a successful Lean R&D transformation strategy
9. Dynamic systems to ensure all resources are always applied to the highest priority problems
    

Agenda

Day One:

7:30 – 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 8:45 Introductions

8:45 – 8:55 Course Overview

8:55 – 9:45 Value of Lean in R&D

• Value of Lean R&D
• Purpose of R&D
• What is Lean R&D?
• The Lean R&D "Be State"

9:45 - 10:00 Refreshment Break

10:00 – 10:30 Lean R&D Elements - Seeing

• The importance of "seeing" without prejudice
• Approaches for seeing without prejudice
  
  • The Ohno circle and hte Value Stream Map
  • The danger of activities and statements

10:30 – 12:00 Team Break Out – Value Stream (Current State) Mapping

Noon – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 1:30 Lean R&D Elements 2 - Reframing

• What is reframing?
• The value of questions

1:30 – 2:30 Team Break Out: Critical Question Mapping

• Creating an A3 learning plan to rigorously answer a business-valued innovation question

2:30 – 2:45 Lean R&D Elements 2 - Reframing, continued...

• Seeing and reframing for the individual
• Practice
• Seeing and Reframing for the manager

2:45 – 3:00 Refreshment Break

3:00 – 4:30 Lean R&D Elements 3 - Experiencing

• Multiple Options
• No decision decision-making
• Fast Learning
• Good, Better, Best

4:30 – 5:00 Wrap Up and Preview of Day 2

5:30 – 6:30 Networking Wine & Cheese Reception

Day Two

8:00 – 8:15 Review of Day 1

8:15 – 9:45 Pulling it together for the individual - The A3

• Learning structures
• The A3

9:45 – 10:00 Refreshment Break

10:00 – 10:45 Break Out - Putting together an A3

• Mechanical approaches
• Organic Operations

10:45 – 11:45 Pulling it together for the community

• Mechanical approaches
• Organic Operations

11:45– 12:45 Lunch

12:45 – 2:15 Strategies for Transforming R&D

• Complex systems
• "Maneuver" approache
• Biological Analogies

2:15 – 2:30 Refreshment Break

2:30 – 3:30 Creating a fit-for-purpose strategy for Lean Implementation

• Creating a fit-for-purpose strategy for your company
• 3-Level transformation map
• A3 learning plan
• What to do Monday morning in your R&D organization

 3:30 – 4:00 Wrap-Up and Q&A

4:00 Workshop Concludes

Who Should Attend:

This workshop is designed for R&D leaders and professionals, and general managers looking to generate higher levels of innovation from their R&D functions, deliver that innovation more quickly to market, and do so without increasing costs. It is also for Lean practitioners looking to gain theory and practice to gain support of and expand their efforts into R&D. Specifically, this course is for VPs, Directors and Managers of research, product development and engineering, Lean practitioners and for general managers who depend on innovation and R&D productivity for business success.

"Excellent workshop. It changed my old mental model.  I gained new insights, and now I have a better idea of how to implement Lean Prodcut Development in my company." 

Carla Linares, Belcorp

Program Fees and Logistics

Dates/Schedule: The workshop will be held November 3-4, 2010. Registration and continental breakfast begins at 7:30am on Wednesday, November 3; the workshop commences at 8:30am and concludes at 4:00pm on Thursday, November 4th.

Workshop Fee: $1995/person.  Fee includes program materials, luncheons, continental breakfast, refreshment breaks, and networking reception.

Location & Hotel Accommodations:

The workshop will be held at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, 575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139

A limited block of rooms is available at a discounted group rate. Please call 888-421-1442 for room reservations. Be sure to mention that you will be attending "Management Roundtable's Accelerating R&D Workshop"

No-Risk Guarantee: Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed – money back or credit. If you are not satisfied with the quality of this program, let us know in writing and we will refund your entire registration fee.