Workshops & Events
Through the Centre for Innovation, we run workshops, courses and business improvement programs for South Australian small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) with high-growth potential.
These include:
Successful Product Development: How to Make It Pay
This workshop is relevant to SMEs considering new product development. It focuses on ways to design and marketing innovative products.
Presented by Managing Director of Prodex, Gerard Ryan, the course explores ways to manage risk associated with new product development, identify opportunities, accelerate time to market and develop a ‘winning product’.
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La Salle Matrix Thinking
This workshop, presented by the Centre for Innovation, focuses on techniques for creating new products, processes or services. The workshop will help you to develop a verified process for efficiently finding breakthrough opportunities and assessing these opportunities.
Matrix thinking was created by Roger La Salle and captures a lifetime of work in conceiving winning innovations and business opportunities.
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Supply Chain and Logistics Management Seminars
These seminars are targeted to high-growth and export-oriented companies as well as transport storage and logistics firms. Seminar topics include:
- Case studies from ‘lean’ industries
- Global oil end game – threats and opportunities for manufacturers, infrastructure and transport companies
- Chain of responsibility and fatigue management in transport
- Lean manufacturing and lean supply chains
- Supply chain management
- Lean excellence in action
- Greening the supply chain
- Shipping container shortages and repositioning matters.
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Product Development Case Studies
In order to grow and sustain their businesses, many SA companies recognise the value of efficiently developing differentiated products.
The Centre For Innovation conducts regular short seminars illustrating proven principles for successful new product development through informative case studies.
Each seminar, conducted over about one hour, features two case studies presented by successful local companies with a relevant story to tell from their actual endeavours in developing and commercialising new products. These sessions also provide a valuable opportunity to meet with other people involved in new product development. The forthcoming series will highlight the practical implementation of specific aspects of new product development including;
- Developing a competitive advantage through understanding customers, competitors and the market environment.
- Product development opportunities through Design for Environment (Eco-design).
- Principals and techniques for design testing and validation.
- Achieving success through accessing product development services.
- Keys for successful product launch.
Our aim is that these case study sessions will not only inspire SA companies with the opportunities through product development but also assist them with practical information based upon actual experience.
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Value Stream Mapping Workshops
The Centre for Innovation has developed a Lean Program with a structured pathway designed to help implement lean principles. The program aims to ensure that businesses understand the basics of ‘lean’ and are able to move through each stage of implementation based on their own needs and circumstances.
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is the first stage of the Lean Program and is relevant to all organisations in all industry sectors.
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