July 14-18, 2008 Renaissance Shanghai Pudong Hotel

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2008 Summit Background

In the summer of 2006 & 2007, InnoLab held two rounds Lean Product Development workshops which brought together an impressive group of over 90 practitioners representing multiple industries to discuss the current status of lean product develop-ment efforts and to exchange new insights on overcoming potential roadblocks and challenges for successfully applying lean techniques to product development.

For nearly three years, InnoLab has worked exclusively with Don Reinertsen to address the increasing interest in tools and approaches to bring the benefits of lean thinking to product development.

The intent of this summit: Flow: the Next Generation in Product Development Knowledge Exchange, is to provide practitioners that are currently engaged in lean product development initiatives with a collective learning environment to learn from each others’ successes, brainstorm new approaches to overcome the challenges of implementing lean product development and build a network for ongoing discussion and future problem-solving.

Don Reinertsen will be the chairperson for this interactive summit and will share his latest insights and some advanced concepts on the topic of lean product development.

Attendees will be expected to provide feedback to case presenters, participate in breakout group discussions and give report backs to the group at-large.

If your company is currently involved in lean product development initiatives and not getting the types of results you had hoped for, the Lean Product Development Knowledge Exchange offers you an excellent benchmarking opportunity as well as a chance to problem-solve with other pioneers in lean product development.

By participating in this summit, you will learn:

·	How to identify potential implementation barriers, estimate the value of successful implementation and create action plans and new approaches to move forward with lean initiatives
·	How to effectively manage large queues in product development — learn how to identify queues, communicate the problem to others, justify the need for interventions to reduce queues and execute these interventions
·	How to create a cost of delay process — how to encourage adoption of the process and manage ongoing maintenance
·	What types of decisions can be made with cost of delay tools and the resultant impact on speed, cost and productivity
·	How lean software development and lean product development compare and contrast — how to apply key lessons learned
·	About the impact of decentralized control in environments of high uncertainty and variability — understand how decentralization can change common management practices and how to respond
·	How to increase product development performance and dramatically reduce lead-times with the implementation of WIP (work-in-process) controls in R&D
·	About methods used to align the deployment of lean practices and activities with organizational strategy and objectives
·	Key steps for introducing lean approaches into the organization, managing lean practices through portfolio planning and integrating them with on-going R&D operations

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One-Week Interactive Event

A week-long interactive session on the current state of lean product development efforts — learn key steps for implementation success, how to remove barriers and improve new product development speed, efficiency and quality.