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“The best practices seminars you delivered at our company were great. I appreciate that you facilitated excellent interaction and discussion, and your numerous examples of what other companies have done was extremely helpful to us! I had very positive feedback from those that attended. Both sessions caused our business leaders to really think deeply about our new product development efforts, and areas for improvement, and that was an important initial step. We continue to use the data from the feedback survey to guide our efforts around improving our new product development business results."

Dave Mirth
Vice President, Innovation
Insulating Systems Business
Owens Corning

In-House Training

If your company has a team of people with similar training needs, you can benefit by customizing any one of our public innovation seminars to be delivered in the privacy and convenience of your own organization.

Save Time. In-house training offers your employees the convenience of training close to home, saving you time and minimizing disruption.

Save Money. The more people you train, the more money you save. Depending on the size of your group, the per-person tuition is usually less than our public seminar fees.

Build Better Teams. Teams that learn together perform better together and product innovation requires high performing, cross functional teams. In-house training offers consistent communication, collaborative discussions and interactive, hands-on exercises that build better teams.

Get Personal. The more personalized the training, the faster its adoption. Tailor any of our public seminars to fit your needs. In the privacy of your own organization, our instructors can focus in on your specific issues and move right to the heart of what you really want to discuss.

It’s Convenient. Just let us know what works for you. We can deliver training with flexible scheduling – even on weekends, evenings or holidays - if that is what you need to equip your teams with the knowledge to win at product innovation.

Our instructors are subject matter experts with industry experience, and they deliver highly engaging sessions. Each instructor has the experience to answer the most challenging questions and can handle even the toughest of critics.

Below is a sample of some of the most popular training topics. Select from this list or view a complete list of our public innovation seminars which can be customized for in-house training.

HOW TO ACHIEVE WORLD-CLASS GATEKEEPING – ½ DAY EVENT
High impact gate meetings are essential for successful product innovation. Equip your leadership team with world-class examples of just what it takes to be a highly effective Gatekeeper. This interactive session focuses on Dr. Cooper and Dr. Edgett’s comprehensive set of recommendations ranging from evaluation criteria and scorecards to decision processes and performance expectations.

STAGE-GATE SYSTEM FUNDAMENTALS FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPERS – 2 DAY EVENT
Accelerate your organizations understanding and adoption of the Stage-Gate Innovation System by engaging the people who will be responsible for making it happen. This highly interactive event is an expert blend of lectures, case studies, team exercises and interactive question and answer periods to appeal to all learning styles.

HOW TO GENERATE BREAKTHROUGH NEW PRODUCT IDEAS – 2 DAY EVENT
How do you get breakthrough ideas and new products into your development pipeline? No matter how effective your product development process or how brilliant the execution, without great ideas you will not achieve great results. Learn customer-proven methods for generating breakthrough new product ideas and early project selection techniques that enable you to pick the winners. Gain insights into creating the right climate and culture to help manage the front end for results.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPERS – 1½ DAY EVENT
Developing effective project plans which are appropriately suited to the unique spirit of each stage within the Stage-Gate system is a critical skill. Well designed project plans can save companies hundreds of person-days and avoid costly delays. In addition to learning how to ‘plan the work’, this highly interactive event also focuses on ‘how to work the plan’.

Contact us today to discuss how we can bring a world-class training seminar to your team, at your location.

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