Product Development Training Course Workshop Programme

Time to Market's range of courses and skills development products provide the know how required by people and companies eager to significantly improve their success in new product development. Our courses and workshops equip those people at all levels of an organisation, in the marketing, technical, commercial, operations and IT functions with cross-functional best practices, know what, know how and tools to plan and develop successful products and product ranges and the project management methodology and skills to achieve fast time to market.

Companies, Markets and Industries

The courses in the programme are adaptable for a range of companies:
Medium size companies to Large Corporations
National; Multi-Local; Multi-National; Global
Mature markets to emerging and high technology markets
Business to Business (B2B); Business to Consumer (B2C) and Business to End-User (B2E)
Market Driven and Customer Led Product Development
Range of industries, including: Telecomms; Electronics; Electrical; Software; Financial Services; Chemical; Engineering; Food; Retail; Pharmaceutical; Medical …… 
Physical Products and associated services
Non-Physical Products and Services
UK; USA; Canada; France; Germany; Switzerland; Italy; Finland; Russia; India

People

For our client companies we provide skills transfer, coaching and training across the functions and up and down the management levels, so the people who are typically involved comprise:
Directors: Marketing; Technical; Technology; Engineering; Product Development; Operations; Commercial; Innovation; HR ……..
Managers: Product; Project; Marketing; Product Management; Product Marketing; Brand; Category; Product Development; Training; Business Improvement; Business Development
Teams: Project; Product Development; Cross Functional; Virtual; Business; Technology

Skills Development Programme Principles

Cost Effective
Whether as a single course for a small group or extensive training across your organisation, tailored courses or workshops are a very cost effective way to optimise the cost per participant.

Time Efficient
Design of the courses has taken into account the every increasing time pressure on people's time. An on-site or local location together with a flexible time schedule provides optimum use of people's time.

Tailored to your needs
The courses have been designed so that they can be tailored to your specific needs and can incorporate our database of best practices and toolkits as well as your own in-house methods. This provides an excellent balance of new and challenging thinking while incorporating familiar good practice.

Pragmatic; Best Practices; Toolkits; Case Studies and Learning by Doing
Course content is a mixture of: pragmatic practices, methods and tools based on a 'common sense' conceptual framework; practical tools to help implementation; case studies to illustrate best practices; team tasks and exercises to consolidate learning.

Expert Guidance
The Course Leaders are all experienced practitioners who bring a wealth of real-life examples and case histories to enrich the course material. The training emphasises the pragmatic use of individual and team-based tools and techniques.

Deliverables and Implementation
In addition to the know how involved in the subject, all course material, case studies, examples and tools are provided on a CD to provide on going reference material which assists implementation in the workplace. In many cases Excel and/or Web based software software applications can be provided as part of the deliverables.

Flexible Delivery
The courses in the programme are based on the best practices from the Time to Market Association (TtMA) and the TtM Toolkits. Each course is continually updated to include leading and emerging best practices. In addition, we provide differing versions of case studies and exercises, depending on the focus required (B2B, B2C, B2E, Physical or Non-Physical Products, Global, National ......) The delivery of each programme and course is 'tuned' to the experience and needs of participants

Follow Up Coaching
In addition to formal training we can provide 1:1 and 1:n and team coaching and skills transfer to embed learning and speed implementation.

Free Proposal
We can provide a free proposal, including programme and course outline with costing, to meet your requirements - please contact us.

Courses

Project Management for Product Development

(Course: TC5)

Leading Virtual and X-Functional Product Development Teams

How to write winning product spec's

Market Driven Product and Project Definition

Metrics for effective Product Development

Technology Acquisition for Product Development

Voices of Customers tools and techniques

Product Planning and Project Selection

Risk Reward Management

Best Practice Overview of Product and Portfolio Life Cycle Management

Marketing Know How

Commercial Know How

Strategic and Innovative Thinking and Planning

Time to Market Compression

Product Management of the Life Cycle

In Life Product Management

For more information please follow the following links:

New Product Introduction (NPI) or New Product Development (NPD)
Product Definition (PD) and pragmatic Quality Function Deployment (pQFD)
Product Marketing and Management
Time to Market Control and Compression (TtMCC)
Product Innovation with Market, Technology and Process Innovation
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) or Six Sigma Product Development (SSPD) implementation programme
Product Development, Marketing and Management Software Applications
Time to Market Product Development Healthcheck Assessment Audit