New Product Development & Innovation

Participants learn the traditional Stage Gate and Design for Lean Six Sigma DMADV approaches to new product development (NPD), as well as Disruptive Innovation, Design Thinking, Agile and Lean techniques for rapid iterative prototyping, Design Sprints, and emerging NPD best practices. In addition, participants learn how to lead innovation, manage the NPD pipeline, employ tools that they and their team can use to invent breakthrough designs and solve tough engineering challenges, and use data-driven market research and problem solving tools to discover unmet and unspoken market needs ahead of the competition.