Thursday, August 7, 2025 Virtual Conference

Peter Palmér, LPPDE and Juha Tammi, Lean Association of Finland - Welcome and Instructions

Peter and Juha represent the two organization who organize these virtual online events and will moderate the Virtual Summit.

Teemu Äärynen, AME (Advanced Manufacturing Engineering) Program Leader at GE Healthcare – Successful 3P methodology in practice

This is a case presentation from GE Healthcare about how to use the successful 3P methodology in practice. How GE Healthcare have worked with;

• Accelerating the 3P and prototype cycle through an iterative approach
• Managing prototype cycles
• Strengthening collaboration during the process

Teemu Äärynen is a manufacturing leader with long and wide experience with demonstrated history of working in the health care industry. He is skilled in management, continuous improvement, leadership, new product introduction, and supply chain management. Teemu has a long experience of calculating cost efficiency, profitability and productivity to support higher level management investment decisions. He is skilled by taking new manufacturing technologies to use in the industrial environment: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Automation, Cobots (Collaborative robots), link to article: https://new.abb.com/news/detail/80931/cstmr-single-arm-yumi-cobot-speeds-up-assembly-at-ge-healthcares-prototype-line.

Terry Barnhart, Biopharmaceutical organizational design, effectiveness and transformation executive at Novartis – No Decisions to Drive Innovation Speed

No Decisions to Drive Innovation Speed is a clickbait title for designing experiments to ensure the data, not emotions, make your decisions.

Terry Barnhart is specialized in organizational design, effectiveness and transformation executive in the biopharmaceutical industry. He has led redesign of global and country-based and R&D organizations for 3 multinational companies and delivered nearly $1billion in operational value through R&D acceleration. Focusing on operational value leading organization - wide Lean initiatives and led cultural transformations to radically improve team capability and employee engagement.

Daniel Christinsen, Senior Director, Agile Coach at Travelers – From Decision to Development: Mapping the Knowledge Journey in Product Creation

Fundamentally, in its simplest terms, product development is basically an orchestrated set of decisions. In this presentation, I will explore the decision and knowledge nature of product development through a simplified approach to help development teams captured and sequence needed decisions and their associated questions. The content will cover the following key points:

• The Decision and knowledge base nature of product development.
• Key challenges for organizations around a deliberate learning mindset.
• Mapping out decisions and required learning using a decision flow map.
• Leveraging the decision flow map to identity and develop needed enablers.
• Developing a learning roadmap of enablers for the development effort.

Daniel Christinsen is a true LPPD practitioner and has attended many LPPDE conferences. Throughout his career he has been engaged in several lean-agile transformation efforts at both the line-of-business and enterprise levels in leadership roles including Program Manager for New Product Development at Watlow, as a principal project manager at HGST, and Program Manager & Lean-Agile Transformation / Sensei & Coach for Western Digital.

Through these efforts he has provided leadership, coaching, and facilitation in the development and execution of the global lean-agile transformation strategies including strategy development and execution, education context development and delivery, the coaching of teams, management, and organizations on Lean-Agile methods and frameworks, and facilitation of Lean-Agile events.  In addition, also provided program management leadership of the transformation efforts including leading key projects, budget management, contract development and negations with vendors, metrics development and tracking, and development of Lean-Agile capabilities of global cross-functional teams.

Dan has a BS in Electrical Engineering, is a certified Project Management Professional, and has a number of Agile certifications from both Scale Agile and Scrum Alliance. The latest six years Dan has spent at Travelers as a senior director and agile coach.

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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