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06.01.2012
RIVA mit stärkerem Fokus – ideas. innovation. value.
RIVA mit stärkerem Fokus – ideas. innovation. value.
21.06.2011
RIVA participates in BWA (Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade) Event „Unternehmerische Herausforderung E-Mobilität“ (e-mobility – an entrepreneurial challenge)
on July 19, 2011 in Cologne
01.12.2010
Project recovery: Paper of Riva Management Consultants wins award
On November 15th, the PMI-Summit 2010 took place in Munich.
16.10.2010
Riva at the PM-Summit 2010 in Munich
On November 15th, Project Management Experts will get together in Munich to exchange experiences...
Product Development Processes
Target of the project was an international optimisation and standardization of the product development process.
Initial Situation
- Worldwide operating automotive supplier, approx. 6,000 employees
- Development sites in Germany, France, Italy, U.K., Korea, Japan and USA
- Locally developed product development processes, individually tailored to respective OEM requirements
- New products require international cooperation of various product development sites
- Leading OEMs enforce standardization
Targets
Harmonized product development process (PDP) and Project Management (PM) (PM)
Processes
Organization
Human Resources / Soft Skills
IT-Support
Individual degrees of freedom for different OEM and cultural requirements
APPROACH
- Analysis of existing processes and organization
- Configuration of a standardized PDP with supporting PM methods
- Country and OEM-specific tailoring, without softening the standardization
- Training with real project teams, based on their current projects
- Selection and implementation of appropriate IT-support
Results
- Standardized project types, process models and decision points
- Lean project reporting (project charter, key figures, etc.)
- Implementation of quality gates method
- Training of more than 800 engineers from all required functions worldwide