Ideal for both established businesses and start-ups who are wanting to deliver better, faster and more profitable innovation!

Join New Product Development Specialist Saskia van der Geest for this one off workshop in Invercargill. With twenty years’ experience focusing on improvingnew product development, including being the first New Product Development Manager for DB Breweries and launching over one hundred products in NZ, Saskia will share her tips on how your business can encourage a continuous stream of profitable new products.

What the workshop will include:

• The basics of new product development (NPD), including jargon, common challenges and tools and tips to achieve goals

• Introduction to lean NPD thinking including how to capture knowledge for re-use

• Introduction to agile thinking and how you can implement this to your business

• Several workshops where you can apply the insights learnt to your own examples

About the host

Saskia van der Geest MSc. is an active consultant and coach in the field of New Product Development. She helps management teams to improve profitability and market share through setting up their organisations to predictably deliver a continuous stream of profitable high-quality new products (or services) faster.

She specialises in improving the product development process (from ideas to profits) to consistently deliver ‘faster, better, more profitable’. That is: better quality new products (or services), in shorter time frames, with reduced cost, higher margins and reduced risk. To make that happen successfully she works closely with the key team involved in creating new products for the market: the management team, the R&D team, operations, Sales & Marketing, QA and engineering.

Clients range from medium-size businesses to large multinational blue-chip firms, who operate in a large range of industries from retailers, to manufacturers in the food & beverage, consumer goods, timber, health care, electronics and plastics industries, to government and the storage industry. Some of the well-known businesses that Saskia has worked with are: New Zealand King Salmon, Barkers of Geraldine, Annabel Langbein Books, F&P Healthcare, Siemens, and GE Plastics.

Workshop details

17 October 2019  
9am - 4:30pm  
Great South, 143 Spey Street 

General Admission: $400 + GST (Early Bird rate of $350 +GST available until 16 September)* 
Businesses may be eligible for capability voucher funding that would subsidise up to 50% of the cost. 
RSVP by emailing ben@greatsouth.nz by 30 September 2019