UE Operational Excellence in R&D - 5GUC3700

1- Project Management in R&D – 2 slots

• Project governance
• New Product development Process
• Project preparation according to PMI standard
• Application to Study case (Olympic project, taxi drone based)
• Project execution according to PMI standard

2- Operational Excellence in R&D – 5 slots

• Wastes and added value in R&D
• Lean R&D
• Agile methods
• Critical Chain method

3- Innovation in R&D – 4 slots

• Success factors for innovation (interdisciplinarity, knowledge sharing, prototyping loops, …)
• Risk or main challenges for innovation? How to escape main stream? Dominant Design and how to manage rupture?
• What is making innovation successful business? Business plan, business model, Lean Start-Up
• Intrapreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship: how to innovation in the context of a complex organisation?
• Ambidextrous organization –(exploration – exploitation) (with industrial illustration?)
• Difference between Innovation Projects and Development Projects (with industrial?)
• Collaboration with the academic world – key success factors
• Client - Supplier collaboration during new development process

4- Back to Operational Excellence in R&D – 3 slots

• Voice Of The Customer
• RnDyneo Serious Games

Basic knowledge in R&D organization and Project Management

Basic knowledge in Innovation Methodologies:

• Design thinking
• Innovation Tournament
• K-C-P

50% Individual exam
50% Continuous monitoring and control (workshops - presentations)

50% Individual exam
50% Continuous monitoring and control (workshops presentation & working group)

The exam is given in english only

The course exists in the following branches:

• Curriculum - Engineer student Master SCM - Semester 9 (this course is given in english only )
• Curriculum - M2 GI Product Development - Semester 9 (this course is given in english only )
• Curriculum - M2 GI Industrial Innovation - Semester 9 (this course is given in english only )
• Curriculum - Master GI SIE program - Semester 9 (this course is given in english only )
• Curriculum - Engineer student Master PD - Semester 9 (this course is given in english only )
• Curriculum - Engineer IPID apprentice program - Semester 9 (this course is given in english only )

Course ID : 5GUC3700
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Mascitelli Ronald, Mastering Lean Product Development. A practical Event-Driven Process for Maximizing SPeed Profits, and Quality. Technology Perspectives, 2011.

J. M. Morgan and J. K. Liker, The Toyota Product Developement System: Integrating People Process and Technology. New York: Productivity press, 2006.

J. Oehmen and E. Rebentisch, “Waste in Lean Product Development,” LAI Pap. Ser., no. July, pp. 1–35, 2010.

R. C. Newbold, Management in the Fast Lane Applying the Theory of Constraints. CRC press Taylor & Francis Group, 1998.

L. P. Leach, “Critical chain project management improves project performance,” Proj. Manag. J., vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 39–51, 1999.

J. M. Morgan and J. K. Liker, Designing the Future. Mc Graw Hill Education., 2019.

J. G. March, “Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning,” Organ. Sci., vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 71–87, 1991.