PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM Industry-specific Courses

The structure of the following industry-specific courses :

• B1. Product Development Management in the Automotive/Automotive Supplier Industries
• B2. Product Development Management in the Capital Goods Industries
• B3. Product Development Management in the Consumer Electronics Industries
• B4. Product Development Management in the Plastics Industries

focused on the improvement of product development performance is as follows:


PREPARATORY WORK : Case Study 1

DAY 1

Part 1 - Industry overview

• Module 1 - The industry (segments, major players, major challenges, special requirements, ....)
• Module 2 - A typical company in the industry (business challenges, objectives, main business processes, ....)
• Module 3 - The supply chain

Part 2 - Product development processes, information and information systems

• Module 4 - Product Development processes
• Module 5 - Product Development information
• Module 6 - Product Development Information Systems

Evening 1 : Case Study 2

DAY 2

Part 3 - Managing product development activities

• Module 7 - Product Development management
• Module 8 - Life cycle management
• Module 9 - Cost management

Part 4 - Typical product development problems and solutions

• Module 10 - Typical Product Development problem areas
• Module 11 - Product Development improvement initiatives
• Module 12 - Solutions to Product Development problems

Evening 2 : Course dinner

DAY 3

Part 5 - Examples

• Module 13 - Identifying and proposing solutions

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