The MRT Virtual Roundtable

An online networking resource for product development professionals

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EmFlex, Todd Mattingly, Lynn Olson and 14 more joined The MRT Virtual Roundtableyesterday
Jackie Cooper added 2 blog postsyesterday
Gregg Tong added 6 blog postson Wednesday
Yeah, Gregg...and my parents thought that my little six-transistor Sony radio sucked. But they were glad that I stopped playing Elvis on the "Hi-Fi". And it was great for beach parties with Frankie and Annette...
I liked this blog entry. I have always agreed with everything you wrote here - that success is mostly based on hard work and that the point of a lot of this education, exposure, networking, etc. is to make sure that you hard work is down the right...
The MRT Virtual Roundtable now has videosApril 14
Lisa Teuscher added a blog postApril 1
I don't know how many people got the email from Alex Cooper with this subject line, but I thought it was a good one. Here is the jist of what he has to say: "The heart of innovation lies in the ability to gather new information, interpret the inf...
Great post Jackie. I entered a "Fireside Cinnamon Cocoa" and "Lardlad Simpsons" donuts.
 

Welcome to the MRT Virtual Roundtable

Hi - this is a new service that MRT is experimenting with to add a "virtual" layer of networking and ongoing communication with our customers and event participants.
--Gregg Tong, MRT

Feel free to browse our blog posts below and the discussions in our Lean PD Group, which are open access areas. Anyone is invited to register and start posting their opinions as well (insert standard statement here about being appropriate, professional and non-commercial), but you'll have to click on the "Sign Up" link on the right-hand side of this page.

We know it's a pain, but that's just how these things work and the process used here is less obnoxious than most. Use the same password you use for other stuff so you can remember it, we won't tell.

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Blog Posts

Jackie Cooper

Sleepless over innovation?

What keeps you up at night? Personally I’m troubled by what I read in the news these days – and not just about Iran, North Korea, or even Madoff. I’m worried about product development and innovation.

First, about a week before A.G. Lafley resigned as CEO, market analysts were criticizing Procter & Gamble for not being innovative enough. P&G not innovative enough?! That’s like Hollywood producers saying Lindsay Lohan isn’t thin enough. Good grief.

Then there’s Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner te… Continue

Posted by Jackie Cooper on July 2, 2009 at 7:00am

Gregg Tong

What I'd look like as a Vulcan...



Create Your Own



Does anyone read print anymore? Sometimes I wonder if anyone's reading my column in… Continue

Posted by Gregg Tong on July 1, 2009 at 12:20pm

Gregg Tong

We give up already!

I hate twitter. I don't get it. I think it sucks. I hope it all goes away very very soon but I know we'll all just get sucked into the hype of the next twitbookspace. So here you go, you like twitter? Have at it. We'll tweet as long as the current marketing buzz experts tell us we… Continue

Posted by Gregg Tong on May 27, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Gregg Tong

What's your secret?

A distant relative of mine once disclosed to me his technique for impressing executives at parties and receptions in Hong Kong. He'd wait for an opportune moment to get someone alone or in a small group, and then he would ask them in a hushed tone, "What's your secret?". Alth… Continue

Posted by Gregg Tong on May 5, 2009 at 2:22pm — 1 Comment

Gregg Tong

Leveraging Lean Product Development Seminar

MRT has joined up with Time Compression Magazine's Expo to deliver a special 1-day seminar on Lean Product Development.

LEVERAGING LEAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT:
Streamlining Product Design and Development
for Lower Costs and Higher Profits

June 25, 2009 in Chicago, held in conjunctio… Continue

Posted by Gregg Tong on April 22, 2009 at 3:27pm

Forum

Dan

Getting started....

Hello to all! I'm a LSS BB with a new initiative to "lean out the NPI process". For years, in other job functions I was unsatisfied with the PS process. In particular our projects took soooo llloo...

Started by Dan Sep. 25, 2008.

 
 

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