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May 16, 2007 | SDSIC

Learning from Toyota: Rapid Product Development

Toyota bypassed General Motors in global unit sales for Q1 this year and is expected by analysts to become the world’s largest auto manufacturer. Everyone has heard about Toyota’s Lean Manufacturing, but their Lean Product Development System is even more impressive. Compared to its U.S. competitors, Toyota has been found to be 2-3 times faster to market with new products, using half the engineering staff.

You will learn how to:

reduce your time to market by 30-70%
identify and remove waste in your development processes
reduce costs and risks, free up hidden R&D
respond faster to sudden changes in customer needs
mobilize your people for continuous learning and innovation

Where & When:

Program:

Registration:

By phone, call Jill Curson at (858) 793-6655
By email - jill@sdsic.org
Online (recommended): go here

Speaker:

Frode Ødegård is the CEO and founder of the Lean Software Institute. He has more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and trusted advisor to high-tech executives. Organizations Frode has helped include Sony Electronics Inc., NASA, Lockheed Martin, Candle, Conexant Systems, Mindspeed, and Plantronics. Frode is currently writing a book on Lean for the Software Enterprise.
Before founding the Lean Software Institute in 2004, Frode was the CEO and founder of Ødegård Labs, Inc., a software engineering research and consulting firm. Prior to founding Ødegård Labs in 1991, Frode was the CEO of Modula-2 CASE Systems, a Norwegian company developing tools for embedded systems software developers. His interests outside work include history, philosophy, psychology, and strength training.