Give you hands-on experience in applying a risk management process.

1. Proactive Risk Management
September 28-29, 2011 CII Innovation Center, Shanghai
Preston Smith
I nn ov a i o n
at WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Management professionals from:
o R&D
o Innovation
o Product Development
o Process Improvement/Re-Engineering
o Manufacturing
5 REASONS TO ATTEND:
Product Development is risky business by nature.
Give you hands-on experience in applying a risk management process.
Allow you to practice the specific skills involved.
Provide supplementary information allowing you to modify the process to your
organization's culture and needs.
Learn from the peers about supporting tools and approaches.
Organizer:
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2. Proactive Risk Management
September 28-29, 2011 CII Innovation Center, Shanghai
Day 1 Agenda Day 2 Agenda
Part 1. Model of Risk Management Part 2. The 5 steps to risk management
(continued).
Expanding beyond technical risks
Key earmarks of a risk
Risk management opposed to fire
fighting
Remaining mindful of the opportunity
side of risk
Part 3. The 5 tools/toolkit of risk
management
Part 2. The 5 steps to risk management
Part 4. The 5 strategies to risk management
Organizer
Part 5. Implementing Project Risk
management
“...presents an easy-to-understand model and an
easy-to-implement set of steps to successful risk
management. It should be required reading for
project and product managers. I believe you learn it
one day, implement it the next, and beginning
seeing results immediately...”
Patrick Neal PhD, PMP, Mangager, Agilent
Technologies.
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3. Proactive Risk Management
September 28-29, 2011 CII Innovation Center, Shanghai
About the Workshop Leader
Preston has concentrated on rapid and flexible product
development methods for over twenty years. He founded New
Product Dynamics in 1986 to bring rapid development expertise to
industry as an independent consultant. Clients in 25 countries span
the packaged goods, electronics, software, medical, industrial
equipment, and motor vehicle industries.His engagements include
flexible and prototype-driven product development, project risk
management, and high-performance global development teams.
Preston's consulting and training services include discovering
cost-effective opportunities for improving a company's
development cycle, guiding the implementation of industry-leading
development methods. He has led over a hundred
product development workshops in North America, “Speed has always been a critical element
Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia. in the product design process. But as
Preston Smith points out, one must be
extraordinarily flexible as well in one’s
Preston has published 3 books: Developing Products in development and innovation processes. In
Half the Time,now in its third edition with 100, 000 the light-speed world we live in, as Smith
so poignantly points out, one’s ability to
copies in use in English, plus six translated editions;
use intelligent, knowledge-based flexibility
Proactive Risk Management, which won the 2003 PMI is an imperative to winning every day.”
Organizer David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award,
Michael D. Thieneman, Executive Vice
and his most recent one Flexible Product Development.
President, Whirlpool Corporation
Before his concentration on management consulting,
Preston spent twenty years as an engineer and manager “...clearly communicates the challenges of
risk management in product development
with IBM, AT&T, GM, Pratt&Whitney Aircraft, and
and provides simple, proven methods for
various smaller companies. He holds an engineering addressing them...experience with
Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is a founder of the managing risk is clearly evidenced in their
practical treatment of the subject...take a
Agile Project Leadership Network, a member of the
holistic view of product development and
Product Development and Management Association and illuminate the cross functional nature of risk
of the Agile Alliance. Preston is listed in Who's Who in in product development. ...often offer a
straightforward procedure for managing
the West and Who's Who in Finance and Industry, and
risk in the real world.”
he is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC).
Kent Harmon, Director, Product
Development Improvement, Texas
Companies who have attended his workshops in Greater
Instruments
China include:ABB, Dell, Dow Corning, GE Medical
Systems, Philips, Oracle, SAP, P&G, A.O.Smith, Bayer,
Emerson, Invensys, Molex, Unilever, Schneider, Siemens,
Ericsson, Osram, Motorola, Agilent, HP, Nestle, 3M,
Invista, Jabil, Johnson & Johnson, Mettler – Toledo, Otis
and Many others.
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4. Proactive Risk Management
September 28-29, 2011 CII Innovation Center, Shanghai
China Institute for Innovation is a consulting and academic
organization established specifically to help Chinese
companies, multinational organizations and government
agencies to meet the needs for world-class expertise in
innovation.
CII is a leading innovation education, training, research, and
networking institute in China.
CII offers a wide variety of
programs to help people at all
levels and in all roles to
understand and master the
principles and practices of
innovation, to help their
organizations succeed in the
innovation- driven economy.
Organizer
Alcatel, Bayer, Li-Ning Sports, Cadbury, C-Bons,
Changhong, Conexant, DSM, Emerson, EPCOS, GE,
Gemalto, Grammer Automotive, Haier, Huntsman, Intel
Shanghai, Invista, Johnson & Johnson, Kohler, Kone,
Kraft, Lenovo, Nokia, Packetfront, Philips,
Perfect,Putzmeister, Saint-Gobain, Schneider Electric,
Shanghai Ericcson, Tencent, Verigy, etc.
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