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Are you a practitioner that is pursuing lean priciples in new product development or want to know more about this topic? This session is for YOU!
Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) is the New Product Development system originally utilized by Toyota Motor Corporation. Since the primary research by faculty at the University of Michigan in the 1990’s, the method has spread to leading innovators in many industries. LPPD has several unique methods used to understand the customer before committing resources to develop new products. The ‘Study Period’ is an intense evaluation of the new product idea with deep learning about the customer. The end of the study period is the documentation of this learning in a requirements document, known in LPPD as the Concept Paper, which has unique characteristics for implementing a project in a Lean environment. The objective of this webinar is to inform new product development practitioners, and their organizational collaborators, of the principles and methods to understand customers in the LPPD system. Contrasts to other development processes will be highlighted. Countermeasures to the challenges of the development discipline will be introduced. The intent is to inform and inspire innovation excellence in organizations pursuing operational excellence.
Kettering University is a private university in Flint, Michigan. It offers Bachelor of Science and Master’s degrees in STEM and management. Kettering University undergraduate students must complete at least five co-op terms to graduate. Students work for one quarter with their co-op employer, then in the next quarter complete the same courseload of classes of a typical semester university, rotating this pattern for four-and-a-half years. Kettering University is named after inventor and former head of research for General Motors, Charles F. Kettering. He was a distinguished inventor, researcher, and proponent of cooperative education. Established in 1919, Kettering was formerly known as the General Motors Institute (GMI), and a subsidiary of GM until becoming an independent nonprofit university in 1982. The cooperative education model, pioneered over 100 years ago, results in strong student outcomes. Kettering students have over two years of work experience in their discipline before they finish their degree. Graduates enjoy the highest ROI on their education of all institutions in Michigan, and rank in the top 100 of thousands of institutions in the United States. www.kettering.edu
Larry Navarre is a full-time Lecturer at Kettering University teaching courses in innovation development, supply chain management, project management, and business analytics since 2008. Larry has earned a bachelor of business administration degree from Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) and a master of science in management degree from Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management (West Lafayette, Indiana). Larry has 20 years of management experience in the steel, machinery, and plastics industries. His management responsibilities have spanned from production aupervisor to director of global product management and Asian pperations. He has worked internationally with customers, suppliers, and colleagues in 20 countries. Larry serves on the board of the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange, a nonprofit for educating methods of innovation. He is also a managing owner of a family-owned small business managing commercial real estate for over 20 years.
Monday, August 11, 2025
10:55 a.m. Check in
11 a.m. Introduction
11:05 a.m. Presenter presentation
11:50 a.m. Q&A
12 p.m. Webinar concludes
- Why development is so difficult to do well, and with high reliability
- LPPD is quite different than typical NPD with its emphasis on learning first, followed by design
- LPPD applies lean principles in a toolset that is different from Lean Manufacturing
- An introduction to several of the First Principles of LPPD
New Product Development, R&D
Engineering practitioners and their organizational collaborators, in organizations that seek to apply principles of innovation excellence in organizations practicing operational excellence
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