Connecting the Dots: Linking Business Objectives and Product Development
If you want to take a trip, you must first know where to start. The same is true for product development. If you want to make process improvements, you must first assess where you are today. Furthermore, any path forward must align to your organization’s business objectives, and in fact, be a key contributor to financial success. PTC has developed a framework which helps make these connections, linking strategic corporate goals to business initiatives and product development processes. This presentation will give an overview of the framework, show how it supports prevalent industry and market drivers, and describe the role of technology as a key supporting component to make significant and lasting process improvements.

Achieving Real Change in Product Development
Driving real change in product development is difficult. Product development is a complex process and its primary constituency, the engineering community, is not known for receptiveness to change. With over 25 years experience working with leading companies, PTC has developed an approach to address these challenges that is based on value-driven implementations that drive real change at the operational level. This presentation delves into key best practices and case studies of customers who succeeded at leveraging technology to create real meaningful process improvement.

Practical Lean Product Development
The opportunity of lean product development lies in applying the logic of lean manufacturing to the domain of product development. Companies that assume this requires eliminating all variability can damage their ability to innovate and take risks. Yet, used properly, lean methods enable us to design processes that excel in the presence of uncertainty. The key is to focus on controlling queues, reducing batch size, and managing flow. In this presentation, Don Reinertsen will discuss the approaches that are enabling companies to simultaneously improve cycle time, quality, and efficiency.

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