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Workshops
When problems seem intractable and solutions elusive, it may be time to step back and reframe the issue. An executive workshop provides a fresh perspective and facilitated dialogue to help your team create new solutions and a shared vision for lasting improvement.
Workshops can be delivered as half-day or full-day events. The half-day format is most appropriate for busy executives who want an overview and interactive discussion of pace-setting new ideas. The full-day format also provides key stakeholders with facilitated discussion of the ideas and tools and their application to current issues.
These workshops are most effective when participants span functions and management levels.
Workshop topics can be selected from the list below, or customized to address the client's situation. Contact me to discuss your situation.
Half-day Workshops
These workshops provide your executive team with a common thought framework and language to achieve consensus and resolve persistent problems. Time is balanced among a tutorial to frame the issues, facilitated discussion of symptoms and causes as attendees see them, and keys to implementing solutions.
If information is provided beforehand, workshop content and examples are customized to the client's situation.
Full-day Workshops
A full-day workshop extends beyond the half day event to examine alternative solutions and outline an action plan. Through guided and facilitated dialogue, attendees identify and prioritize the solutions that provide the greatest returns for the company. Finally, participants collaborate to outline an action plan for implementing the selected operational and organizational changes.
Topics
Workshops cover critical issues that impact product innovation results:
| Business Finance for New Products: In today's dynamic markets, it isn’t enough to translate business goals into year-long department objectives. Leaders at all levels need a firsthand understanding of the principles that drive your business so that tactical decisions are consistent and aligned toward optimizing business value. This seminar provides managers and leaders with knowledge and tools to apply financial principles to new product planning, portfolio management, and day to day project decisions. |
| New Product Economic Metrics: Effective financial oversight of a firm's product investment requires economic metrics that apply broadly across business lines and are relevant to business goals. The discounted margin ratio is a new formulation of discounted cash flow that compares investment returns to growth and funding targets, instead of cost of capital. This provides comprehensive financial metrics that can be applied across product lines from top to bottom to manage product innovation. |
| Dependable Schedules: Unreliable new product schedules lead to fighting fires and juggling resources … and chronic headaches. Even worse, they undermine customers' confidence in your new products. You can try attacking the problem symptomatically by simply demanding on time releases, but that just makes problems show up somewhere else. This workshop explores systemic approaches to making product schedules dependable. |
| Bringing Product Innovation up to Speed: Faster response to market opportunities would improve business results for most enterprises. Just exhorting R&D teams to work faster has limited effect, and cutting corners to shorten schedules leads to disaster. This workshop develops ideas about how you can improve your new product responsiveness by addressing a set of fundamental issues. |
| Innovators and Managers: Effective collaboration between managers and innovators is crucial to competitive product innovation in growing companies, but differences in perspective and poor communications often separate them. This workshop delves into the underlying causes of the innovator-manager schism and explores ways to bridge the gap. |
Contact me to explore how an Executive Workshop would help your team.
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