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More about the event:
Prepared Foods' R&D Applications Seminar East is a practical 1 1/2 day "how to" applications-oriented event dedicated to further educating the food & beverage industry's formulators on specific application challenges.

The R&D Applications Seminar East will run concurrently with and is co-located under the same roof as NYIFT Suppliers Day Expo, May 5-6, 2010. The R&D Applications Seminar and NYIFT Suppliers Day Expo will be conveniently located at The Doubletree and Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset, New Jersey.

1 - Collaboration's Impact on Product Innovation:
      Friend or Foe!

What you will learn:

New and existing product innovation relies heavily on collaboration. Whether its idea generation, score-carding, formula or process validation, a bid response, or almost any kind of change management, organizations depend on cross-functional input and decision making to generate better ideas and to reduce risk. Today, however, collaboration can be extremely challenging as a wide range of geographic, technological, and other factors have conspired to limit its efficiency. Collaborating effectively across R&D, quality, sales, marketing, procurement, and manufacturing accelerates time to market and increases product success. Poor collaboration means fewer good ideas, less optimal decisions, and reduced oversight.

This educational presentation, delivered by LASCOM Solutions, will explore how successful innovation depends on strong collaboration, suggest strategies to improve both internal and external collaboration, and share customer case studies where such strategies have been successfully deployed.

2 - Managing Risk in an Age of Complexity: 
      Innovation Without Losing Sight of the Details

What you will learn:

Today, food processors and private label retailers look to product innovation as the single largest contributor to lowering costs, increasing profits, and growing market share.  Unfortunately, recent trends have raised obstacles and introduced significant risks to the innovation process. Products, the supply-chain, quality-control, and regulatory compliance have all become much more complex while the importance of both speed and accuracy has never been greater.  Developing winning products quickly, cost-effectively, and without risky errors requires detailed management of critical design information throughout the design process.

This business oriented educational webinar, delivered by LASCOM Solutions, will explore the critical importance of managing product information in today's challenging times and how organizations can accelerate their ability to innovate while minimizing their legal, financial, and brand image risk through the deployment of innovative information management solutions.