Understand how the speed and effectiveness of development efforts are influenced by critical roles of individuals within the team. Identify individual strengths, recognize different team-member perspectives, reinforce the contributions of every team player. Identify and unblock the emotive bottlenecks in bringing new concepts through to completion.

Facilitation and presentation  based on Team Dimensions Profile. 

Event duration: ½ day

Participants: 8 - 20

Prework: Sponsor interviews and web-based questionnaire

Generate novels ideas for new product development, new areas for research. Or methodically evaluate and build on a number of existing ideas based on customer value-driven criteria. An event-programme can be tailored to organisational needs, ranging from a short team-building exercise to leading a company-wide idea-generation campaign, based on provocative challenges. A suite of creativity techniques and tools is used to ensure outcomes exceed expectations.

New Product ideas-event duration: 1 or 2 days, and follow-up presentation

Participants: 5 - 15

Prework: Scoping of detail-level with the sponsor and key participants.

Department/company-wide ideas campaign:

Campaign duration: 2-3 weeks 

Participants: flexible, as part of campaign definition

Prework: scoping of campaign and development of challenge-problem with sponsors. 

Use Six-Sigma techniques and tools to better define customer requirements at the outset of innovation and development efforts: Problem and Challenge definition, Customer Requirement Trees, Voice of Customer interviews, Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and House of Quality matrices. Assess risk of developments using Failure Mode and Effect Analysis. Support is given to enable development activity to match business improvements effort elsewhere in the organisation, using Value-Stream Mapping, and data-driven decision approaches. Support can also be given to corporate Business Improvement teams to build Lean Six Sigma programmes addressing the needs of Research and Development groups.

Project duration: depending on requirement; scope-breakdown in units of typicaly 1 to 2 weeks.

Participants: 5 - 15

Prework: Scope-definition with sponsors at outset of project.

Project management training for innovative, complex or creative projects in an industrial enterprise, using AGILE project management methodology. Explore the differences between traditional design-and-build project execution and the execution of discovery-driven innovation projects, where outcomes are uncertain. Understand the Agile terminology: Roles, Artefacts, Tools; when and where to use, the differences between conventional project management. See how with suitable adaptation industrial new product development can benefit from Agile techniques.

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Sponsor training: 1 day

Practitioner training: 2 days

Participants: 6 to 12