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08:30 Registration and Coffee
09:00 Achieving Superior Product Innovation Performance Results
  Learn about benchmarking best practices and the use of metrics in measuring NPD performance. Discover what separates best performers from the rest and gain insight into the most powerful drivers of new product profitability.
 
10:15 Problem Detection
  Delegates have the opportunity to voice their NPD issues.
 
10:45 Networking Break
11:00 Teams Present Discussion of Problems
  Delegates present their main issues and a discussion is held to seek solutions to the issues raised.
 
11:15 Effectively Managing the “Fuzzy Front End” of Development Projects
  Learn about the practices employed by top performers that produce winners consistently. We focus particularly on the early stages of project development, including doing the necessary up-front homework, defining products and projects, and building an international orientation.
 
12:30 Networking Lunch
13:30 Strategic Best Practices and How to Organise for New Products
  This session highlights the final 5 best NPD practices. Improve NPD organisation using cross-funtional teams; achieve focus and pick the winners; define senior management roles to improve innovation efforts; leverage core-competencies; effectively allocate project resources.
 
15:00 Networking Break
15:20 Your Idea-to-Launch NPD Process (A Stage-Gate System for Your Business)
  The majority of top performing companies have designed and implemented effective Stage-Gate processes that drive new products from idea to market. Many companies underperform due to poorly constructed NPD processes. This session will help you re-evaluate your NPD process and progress towards a best-in-class Stage-Gate System.
 
17:00 Questions and Answers
17:15 End of Day 1 - Networking Reception (1 hr)
   
07:30 Sponsor Presentation (optional attendance):
Automating Idea, Stage-Gate & Portfolio Management - Sopheon
08:15 Issues from Day One
  Delegates have the opportunity to raise any queries or issues from Day 1.
 
08:45 Picking New Products – Best Practices in Portfolio Management
  Product innovation success is contingent on making the right investment decisions. We discuss the best ways to select and prioritise new product projects, perfect the balance and mix of right projects, and maximise the value of your development portfolio.
 
10:15 Networking Break
10:30 Exercise: Challenges and Issues in Project Selection and Prioritisation
  Discussion and presentation of key project selection challenges.
 
10:45 Developing a Portfolio Management System for your Business
  This session focuses on best practices for picking new products and focusing resources on development projects that will best serve your business.
 
12:00 Networking Lunch
12:45 Generating Breakthrough New Product Ideas
  Managing the discovery phase of the NPD process is critical to new product success. We discuss the best methods for generating, capturing and handling great new product ideas.
 
14:00 Networking Break
14:15 Team Exercise
  An opportunity to discuss and develop an “action list” list for your company.
 
14:45 Doing Up-Front Homework and Building in the Voice of the Customer
  More new products fail due to faulty market information than any other cause. Discover the importance of up-front homework and learn how to construct a factual business case before progressing into a development project.
 
15:45 Questions and Answers
  An excellent opportunity to discuss any NPD and Stage-Gate questions that need further refinement.
 
16:00 Close of Masterclass
   
 
 
     
   

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