Thursday, May 8, 2025

Post-Conference Workshops

Full day workshop

Christer Lundh, AUFERO – Risk Mitigation to Shorten Time to Market

This full-day workshop offers practice in different approaches to build knowledge, learn and solve problems. Participants will explore different ways to mitigate risk, creating customer value through product development, in benefit of shortening the time to market. The workshop is suitable for all leaders and knowledge workers.

As example, look on risk of delay. To focus on probability of delay vs. impact of delay. Running product development, delays will almost certainly happen (highly probable). With focus on mitigations, how you reduce the impact, you make a difference.

This is a highly interactive workshop. Start with understanding risk. In groups work, practice on different ways to mitigate risks in the present, to minimize delays and shorten time to market.

The future is less uncertain, when emergency is closer to the present.

This workshop explores how to reinforce fast response mechanisms, creating faster feedback loops. And based on fast feedback, change the present. To apply ways to effectively reduce risk, reduce time to market and increase customer value.

Christer Lundh is president of AUFERO, a consultant firm that helps senior leaders and development teams to benefit from small low-cost iterations that remove a lot of risk. Christer has built his expertise from extensive practice. He provides transformations, strategic projects and personal advice, within product flow management, advisor on leadership, and interim senior manager. He is a board member at LPPDE.org. He is a passionate leader who creates flow of new products and innovations together with customers.

Lunch

Full day workshop, continues with

Christer Lundh, AUFERO – Risk Mitigation to Shorten Time to Market

Workshop Track 2

Half day workshop (morning)

Geoff Neiley, Director Continuous Product Improvement and CM at Rapiscan Systems – A Practical Approach To AI – How to Get Started Fast

Many times, it is difficult to take the first step. Geoff has always been eager to learn as well as to make a difference when he comes home from a conference. This is the story of when Geoff attended an LPPDE presentation on AI decided “we have to do this” and when he came home, he started. He will take us through this journey, step-by-step. It requires some courage and a lot of perseverance.

Geoff Neiley has been in the mechanical engineering field for 30 years. After graduating from the University of Maine, Orono, he learned much about the custom equipment business at NESLAB Instruments designing water chilling systems. Following this he spent 15 years working for BTU International where he designed and lead projects for conveyorized furnaces using in the electronics and solar industry. During this time, he earned his master’s in mechanical engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. It was at BTU where Geoff began to see the value of concurrent engineering. Geoff joined AS&E in 2011 where he led the mechanical team to introduce state-or-the-art x-ray products for the security market. Three years after joining AS&E (now Rapiscan Systems) in 2011, the leadership team introduced the concept of Lean Product Development. Geoff joined the leadership team reading many Lean PD books, inviting Lead PD practitioners to AS&E and attending LPPDE for several consecutive years. AS&E has roundly embraced the concurrent engineering aspects of Lean PD focusing greatly of Set-Base Innovation and cross-functional collaboration with our supply chain and manufacturing team. In 2022, Geoff took the role of Director of Continuous Product Improvement and Configuration Management. In his new role, he continues to leverage his learning from 8-years for practicing LPPD. Geoff has been a member of the board of Lean Product and Process Development Exchange since 2019. Today he is still learning and experimenting with lean processes and enjoys the pride felt in enabling a cross-functional team to achieve challenging, rewarding goals.

Lunch

Half day workshop (afternoon)

Bengt Johansson, LPPDE – Transformation Start with Your Problem + Train-the-trainer

Should you make a revolution or and evolution of your way of working? The answer is as always: It depends. The wise start with their problem. Does the solution require a revolution? Or is it good enough to advance in small steps? The popular term nowadays is ”transformation”. But avoid the risk of unclarity – start with your problem.

In this workshop we will also go through the training and dissemination of knowledge needed for success and we will explore the advantages and risks connected to “Train-the-Trainer.”

Bengt Johansson has spent his entire working life at ASSA ABLOY and has seen the company grow to a global champion. Bengt has been working around 25 years with product development in different roles, production engineering, through quality management and product development. The latest 15 years Bengt spent in ASSA ABLOYs Lean Innovation program where he has been the Global Lean Innovation Manager the latest 8 years.