Lean Product Development Web Classes
Weekly classes to help you take your exploration of lean product development to the next level. Build your own skills, provide basic training to pilot teams, and spread lean product development practices in your organization in a user-friendly, cost-effective web learning experience.
Web Class Benefits
- Immediate value for your organization through opportunities to apply what you have learned right away - and get feedback on your results.
- Time between sessions to reflect upon what you've learned and experiment with new ideas - bring questions and observations back to the class.
- Take the classes anywhere! All you need is an Internet connection and a phone line.
- No travel expenses and no time away from the office or your family.
- Access to Katherine for assistance with making the practices work in your organization.
Our Clients Say:
“The web classes came at the right time with the right content for us.”
We wanted to improve our R & D operations, and this course brought us the clarity to move from theory into concrete implementation.
The course is very rich in content, and although we were able to implement several parts already, we will continue to be able to use the knowledge for a long time."
Jorrit DeGroot
Vaisala, Helsinki, Finland
“Coming to the West Coast to take a class would have been really hard."
The web class with a number of sessions of an hour was really efficient. It was a great introduction to lean product development.
I got an understanding of all the major themes of lean pd and because it was scheduled the way it was, . . .I got to reflect upon what I had learned before I had to take in new information. I had time to prepare for each session. That was a good way to learn."
Carsten Lauridsen
Novozymes, Copenhagen, Denmark
"The Knowledge Brief of the Week and the public courses helped me understand the concepts better, and helped me apply them to my situation."
In particular, when we had homework - write an A3 or whatever it was - Katherine gave us great feedback. Then even after that week was over, she would still give us guidance on things that we were doing that coincided with the course. It was good overlap and we got some good guidance."
Michael Naughton
Nielsen-Kellerman, Philadelphia, PA, USA
“I was surprised about how comfortable the format was - it worked really well."
It was an efficient use of people's time, which mattered to me. To not have to pay for travel expense is huge - it was very economical and affordable for the value received. I was surprised by the level of interaction among the people on the call. I was expecting that being virtual like that would be a barrier but we had some meaningful discussions about the challenges people had in their organizations. . .I have all kinds of examples of the ways that the content impacted the ways that we are doing things."
Beth Robinson
Hixson, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Fall/Winter of 2011 - 2012 Web Classes
Join an Open Session at the dates and times below or schedule a Personal Class or Team Class at your convenience.
The Value of Multiple Alternatives: Nuts & Bolts of SBCE & Convergence
Four Fridays: November 18 and December 2, 9, 16
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PST
This class gives lean product developers the specific information and tools they need to use Set-Based Concurrent Engineering and Convergent Decision-Making effectively.
Since Durward Sobek and Allen Ward first described SBCE back in 1998, this approach to engineering problems has intrigued product engineers with the method’s ability to shorten time to market by reducing technical risk and eliminating unnecessary design loopbacks.
It turns out that the methods apply just as well for other Knowledge Creation Value Streams such as strategy development, sales and marketing, and in technical areas other than mechanical engineering such as chemistry, materials science, software and life sciences. This class gives you the detailed information you need to use convergence wherever it can be helpful to you.
Effective Decision-Making: Nuts & Bolts of A3 Thinking and Nemawashi
Four Fridays: January 5, 12, 19, 26
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time
This class gives lean product developers the specific information and tools they need to help their companies use lean decision-making practices effectively.
Effective decision-making is the engine of lean product development. It drives companies to achieve the results that lean product development promises: better products, faster development speed and more capacity for new products.
Register for both classes together to get $100 off the total registration fee.
Web Classes Available as a Personal Class or Team Class:
Reusable Knowledge for Lean Product Developers
Four Sessions By Arrangement
Lean product development recognizes that knowledge is the value created throughout product development. Reusable knowledge has the potential to be leveraged across products. Standardized knowledge has been embedded into the product development process so that it will be reused.
This class takes you through the four cycles of Knowledge Capitalization: Grow, Capture, Share and Use. Learn what kinds of knowledge have the greatest potential for re-use, how to capture knowledge so that it will be reused, and what it takes to make reusable knowledge accessible, how to identify opportunities to standardize knowledge, and how to recognize the knowledge gaps you need to close.
A case study exercise will help you learn how to recognize valuable reusable knowledge when you see it, how to develop a plan for a Knowledge Supermarket to make your knowledge easier to find, and how to identify opportunities to standardize knowledge to make it even more consistently reused.
This was the most popular workshop at LPPDE-Europe 2011 and received rave reviews from participants.
How to Build Sponsorship for Lean Product Development
Four Sessions By Arrangement
This web learning experience is designed to help the Lean Product Development Champion build and sustain support for lean product development from the executives to the engineers and technicians.
You will learn how to determine whether or not this is the right time for a major lean product development effort, and how you can pull lean product development throught the organization.
When this class is completed, you will have developed the materials for a Proposal to present to senior management to get approval for a Lean Product Development Program, and you will understand what preparatory work will help smooth the way for you and your team.
Customer Intimacy Intelligence:
How to Build Deep Customer Knowledge in Product Development Teams
Four Sessions By Arrangement
Customer Intimacy Intelligence is the ability to deeply understand customer value - for the customers you have today and the customers you want to pursue in the future. It is the set of skills and tools that you need to build customer knowledge.
When this class is completed, you will know how to identify the customer knowledge gaps that are most important to close, and you will understand how to put together a plan to Go-And-See your customers to find the explicit - and implicit - sources of customer value.
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