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Flexible Product DevelopmentSeptember 26-27, 2011 CII Innovation Center, Shanghai

Preston Smith

5 REASONS TO ATTEND:

o Customers will change their minds whether you want them to or noto As soon as you freeze your specification your competitor has a chance to steal your businesso Product technologies change before you can bring them to marketo New market opportunities are emerging all the timeo Your business plan challenges you to introduce more new-to-world and new-to-us products – but your processes don’t really support this

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:Management professionals from:o R&Do Innovation o Product Developmento Process Improvement/Re-Engineeringo Manufacturing

Session 3 Modular Product Architectures

Session 4 Experimentation

Session 5 Set-Based Design

Session 1 Understanding Flexibility

Session 2 Customers and Product

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September 26-27, 2011 CII Innovation Center, Shanghai

Tel: 86-21-61435790 Fax: 86-21-55663190 Email: [email protected]

Day 1 Agenda Morning Sessions

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Day 1 Agenda Afternoon Sessions


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September 26-27, 2011 CII Innovation Center, ShanghaiFlexible Product Development

Session 3 Project Management (Continued)

Session 2 Decision Making

Session 3 Project Management

Day 2 Agenda Morning Sessions Day 2 Agenda Afternoon Sessions

“Preston provides exceptionally detailed treatment of techniques to help any program manager lead difficult, constantlychanging projects. His many examples show how these tools work in the real world.”

Jim Callahan, Senior Program Manager, C-Cor


About the Workshop Leader

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Preston has concentrated on rapid and flexible product

development methods for over twenty years. He founded New

Product Dynamics in 1986 to bring rapid development expertise to

industry as an independent consultant. Clients in 25 countries span

the packaged goods, electronics, software, medical, industrial

equipment, and motor vehicle industries.His engagements include

flexible and prototype-driven product development, project risk

management, and high-performance global development teams.

Preston's consulting and training services include discovering

cost-effective opportunities for improving a company's

development cycle, guiding the implementation of industry-leading development methods. He has led over a hundred

product development workshops in North America,

Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia.

Preston has published 3 books: Developing Products in

Half the Time,now in its third edition with 100, 000

copies in use in English, plus six translated editions;

Proactive Risk Management, which won the 2003 PMI

David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award,

and his most recent one Flexible Product Development.

Before his concentration on management consulting,

Preston spent twenty years as an engineer and manager

with IBM, AT&T, GM, Pratt&Whitney Aircraft, and

various smaller companies. He holds an engineering

Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is a founder of the

Agile Project Leadership Network, a member of the

Product Development and Management Association and

of the Agile Alliance. Preston is listed in Who's Who in

the West and Who's Who in Finance and Industry, and

he is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC).

Companies who have attended his workshops in Greater

China include:ABB, Dell, Dow Corning, GE Medical

Systems, Philips, Oracle, SAP, P&G, A.O.Smith, Bayer,

Emerson, Invensys, Molex, Unilever, Schneider, Siemens,

Ericsson, Osram, Motorola, Agilent, HP, Nestle, 3M,

Invista, Jabil, Johnson & Johnson, Mettler – Toledo, Otis

and Many others.

“Speed has always been a critical element in the product design process. But as Preston Smith points out, one must be extraordinarily flexible as well in one’s development and innovation processes. In the light-speed world we live in, as Smith so poignantly points out, one’s ability to use intelligent, knowledge-based flexibility is an imperative to winning every day.”

Michael D. Thieneman, Executive Vice President, Whirlpool Corporation



China Institute for Innovation is a consulting and academic organization established specifically to help Chinese companies, multinational organizations and government agencies to meet the needs for world-class expertise in innovation. CII is a leading innovation education, training, research, and networking institute in China.CII offers a wide variety of programs to help people at all levels and in all roles to understand and master the principles and practices of innovation, to help their organizations succeed in the innovation- driven economy.

Alcatel, Bayer, Li-Ning Sports, Cadbury, C-Bons, Changhong, Conexant, DSM, Emerson, EPCOS, GE, Gemalto, Grammer Automotive, Haier, Huntsman, Intel Shanghai, Invista, Johnson & Johnson, Kohler, Kone, Kraft, Lenovo, Nokia, Packetfront, Philips, Perfect,Putzmeister, Saint-Gobain, Schneider Electric, Shanghai Ericcson, Tencent, Verigy, etc.

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The 2nd ICSI Innovation ConferenceMay 25-26, 2011 Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Product Development InnovationLed by Joe Zhou, June 27-28, 2011 Shanghai

Creative Thinking ToolsLed by Jack Hipple, July 4-6, 2011 Shanghai

Innovation for Chemical IndustryLed by Jack Hipple, July 7-8, 2011 Shanghai

Dominant InnovationLed by Pro. Jay Lee, August 26, 2011 Shanghai

Flexible Product DevelopmentLed by Preston Smith, September 26-27, 2011 Shanghai

Proactive Risk ManagementLed by Preston Smith, September 28-29, 2011 Shanghai

Innovation LeadershipLed by John Canfield, October 24-25, 2011 Shanghai

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