What is CPD?
The term Concurrent Engineering [CE], coined in 1988, represents a documented body of knowledge [BOK] that spans business strategy, process management, technology management, and human resource management. GGI has been involved with the development of this BOK in industry since shortly after its creation. Our own management science indicates that the best interpretation of this BOK is a broad one. Concurrent Product Development [CPD] is what is necessary to achieve increased productivity and profit from a company’s investment in R&D and product development, more than just Engineering disciplines working in unison. Our base business is a consulting practice which for over a decade has assisted companies in actively accelerating their discovery, invention, and product development capabilities using CPD practices.

What is special about CPD?
Every company has a great name for their product development process. Few have designed and built the process using specific principles of process design. Designing processes to be concurrent is a management science. It is more than an assemblage of activities around specific management checkpoints.
Frameworks to organize product development that have become popular in the 1990s in industry are a good start. These frameworks alone will not enable the attainment of repeatable mature product development processes as defined by the numerous capability maturity models that now exist. CPD practices will add to your company’s competitiveness.

•  History of Rapid Product Development
  
•  Definitions & Terms
  
•  Driving Forces For Speed
  
•  Baselining Change With Metrics
  
•  Designing Concurrent Processes
  
•  Selecting Products Effectively
  
•  Creating CPD Teams
  
•  Defining Products Properly
  
•  Utilizing QFD
  
•  Reviewing Designs
  
•  Getting Leverage From Techology
  
•  Creating Replicateable Environments
  
•  GGI Company Profile
  
•  Bibliography

SEMINAR LEADER: BRADFORD L. GOLDENSE, NPDP, CMfgE, CPIM, CCP

Brad Goldense is Founder and President of Goldense Group, Inc. [GGI], a fifteen-year old Cambridge, Massachusetts consulting and education firm concentrating in advanced business and technology management practices for line management functions. Mr. Goldense has consulted to over 100 of the Fortune 1000 and has worked on productivity improvement and automation projects in over 300 manufacturing locations in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

Mr. Goldense is a member of the faculty at the Gordon Institute of Tufts University in Medford, MA. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Brown University and an MBA in Cost Accounting from Cornell University. Brad is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer [CMfgE] by the SME, a Certified Computer Professional [CCP] by the ICCP, and is Certified in Production and Inventory Management [CPIM] by the APICS. He is Worldwide President of the Society of Concurrent Product Development [SCPD]; is on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Engineering Management [ASEM]; and is a member of Cornell University’s Technology Transfer Committee.

Brad has authored or been quoted in over 135 articles on competitive product development and manufacturing with known industry publications such as CFO, Design News, Machine Design, Purchasing and on the Business Week website He is an internationally recognized expert on both rapid product development and R&D metrics and measurement. Prior to founding GGI in 1985, Mr. Goldense worked for CSC/Index, Price Waterhouse, Texas Instruments, and a private company that specialized in refurbishing aging manufacturing plants.

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