PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT

EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM

Product Development Courses

JOHN STARK ASSOCIATES www.johnstark.com

The structure of the course :

A1. Creating World-Class Product Development Performance

is as follows:

PREPARATORY WORK : Case Study 1

DAY 1

Part 1 - Introduction to the management of product development

Module 1 - Objectives and target-setting
Module 2 - Vision, Strategy, Plan and Metrics
Module 3 - The product development model

Part 2 - The product development environment

Module 4 - Product development processes
Module 5 - Product development information and information systems
Module 6 - Organizational and human resource issues

Evening 1 : Course dinner

DAY 2

Part 3 - Key initiatives

Module 7 - Product development process improvement
Module 8 - New systems and techniques
Module 9 - Managing with new cost and time paradigms

Part 4 - Making it happen

Module 10 - Costs and benefits of improvement initiatives
Module 11 - Planning and implementing improvement initiatives
Module 12 - The management of change

The structure of the course :

A2. The Fundamentals of Product Development Management

is as follows:

PREPARATORY WORK : Case Study 1

DAY 1

Part 1 - Introduction to product development management

Module 1 - The product development model
Module 2 - The context of product development
Module 3 - Organizing product development

Part 2 - Product development processes

Module 4 - Development and modification processes
Module 5 - Concurrent Engineering
Module 6 - Process improvement

Evening 1 : Case Study 2

DAY 2

Part 3 - Product development information

Module 7 - Product development information flow
Module 8 - The real need for product development information
Module 9 - Optimizing product development information

Part 4 - Product development information systems

Module 10 - Data management systems (data bases, EDM, DM, PDM, ....)
Module 11 - Data creation, definition and communication systems (CAD, viewers, ....)
Module 12 - Analysis systems (analysis, simulation, prototyping, ....)

Evening 2 : Course dinner

DAY 3

Part 5 - Human resource issues in product development

Module 13 - Teams
Module 14 - Training and coaching
Module 15 - Career structures

Part 6 - Techniques

Module 16 - DFX
Module 17 - Life cycle techniques (QFD, cost management, time estimation, project management....)
Module 18 - Reuse

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