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As part of Excellence2008 we are holding two 2 day workshops by international leading authorities in the field of innovation. These events have strictly limited numbers so register now to avoid disappointment. (Note that the event launch for Strategyn held in May booked out within 3 days.)

ROB SCHADE, Strategyn
Outcome Driven Innovation

Dates:    3 & 4 September 2008

Venue:    Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney

About this Workshop
Strategyn will be presenting a two day senior management round table on Outcome Driven Innovation® conducted by Rob Schade, a senior member of Strategyn’s management and consulting team. The round table agenda will cover the key insights on successful innovation developed over the past 15 years and will incorporate the latest concepts developed by Anthony Ulwick and the Strategyn team.

The two day roundtable will provide Senior Managers with the opportunity to:

• Capture customer insights that lead to breakthrough solutions and predictable results

• Recognise and identify hidden opportunities in core markets

• Discover latent, uncontested market space

• Segment to reveal opportunities in mature markets

• Use outcome-driven data to drive company strategy and product decisions

• Devise and test innovative, new product and service concepts

This event is limited to 30 participants, 15 members packs
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Sponsored by

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DARRELL MANN
Process Transformation

Dates:        15 & 16 September 2008 (with a 1 day follow up workshop in March 2009)

Venue:        Cochlear, Lane Cove, Sydney

Paul Carter, Innovation Manager from Cochlear invites you to attend this two day event.

“I found Darrell's course inspirational - a breath of fresh air. Here is someone offering systematic and concrete methods for quickly generating the solutions that most of us assume we just have to sit around and wait for. He has a deep understanding of the process of innovation, why most of us do it poorly and how to systematically look beyond the "dominant paradigm" to generate novel solutions. Darrell's real strength is that he is a doer as well as a teacher. He spends about half of his time teaching and the other half generating breakthrough solutions in some of the world's most innovative organisations. Consequently he always has a timely and relevant example to illustrate the points he makes.”

Process Transformation – From Diminishing Return To Breakthrough -(Why settle for 1% improvements, when you can deliver 30-100%?)

For managers and process engineers the world over the words ‘continuous improvement’ form the essence of our existence. The pressures of global competition mean a seemingly never-ending race to eliminate waste, reduce variation and squeeze more and more output from our business, logistics and manufacture processes.

Structure of the workshop:

1. Process Breakthrough Methodology overview

2. From Optimum Processes to Ideal Processes – Defining Breakthrough Magnitude and Long-Term Improvement Goals

3. Process Mapping and Breakthrough Opportunity Definition Tool

4. Resources – mapping and utilising the untapped resources in and around our existing systems.

5. Finding Trade-Offs And Compromises

6. Eliminating Trade-Offs and Compromises – learn how others in other industries have successfully found ways of solving all of the ‘yes, but…’ problems surrounding our processes

7. False Givens – challenging the assumptions built into our processes and turning false assumptions into breakthrough solutions

8. Identifying and resolving ‘people problems’ around processes

9. Influencing The Design – how process engineers can help the product designers to do a better job:‘Design For Breakthrough Processes’

10. Putting It All Together – Case studies from other companies and opportunity to do detailed work on delegate process improvement problems.

This event is limited to 24 participants, 12 members packs
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To register your interest and for more information please email us : Events@Hargraves