Innovation and Product Development

Join Honda Racing F1 Team’s operations director and the Cranfield professor and Cambridge lecturer whose credentials includes authorship of the seminal books ‘How to profit from Innovation’ and ‘Innovation Management’. They will be among those giving you the inside track on innovation and product development at a morning meeting and networking lunch at Stratford Manor Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.

Our members tell us that innovation and product development are subjects that could hardly be more important to the well-being of UK manufacturing. That’s why we think you would like to join our presenters and panellists for an interactive morning facing and answering the challenges manufacturing faces from today’s absolute necessity to innovate and develop new and improved products. Among them will be Honda Racing F1 Team operations director Gary Savage and Rick Mitchell, Cranfield Visiting Professor and Cambridge lecturer. Rick’s track record includes a long career in blue chip manufacturing and authorship of the seminal books ‘How to profit from Innovation’ and ‘Innovation Management’. His current role includes designing and presenting courses on technology and innovation management. Meanwhile, Gary Savage will share what it takes to design and build a Formula 1 car and explain why the teams are always feverishly working on developments - along the way, he’ll explode a number of urban myths to show what innovation and product development is really all about. With registration from 8.30 am and a 9.15 start, a packed morning will be rounded off by a 12.45 networking lunch. Register now to share and hear more on July 5.