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Date/Time

Session Title and Call Leader(s)

2008

 

10/01/08

Expanding Horizons:
Harnessing Innovation from India

Call Leader: Gunjan Bagla, Amritt Ventures, Inc.

08/20/08
 

Lean Development:
How to apply lean principles in different development environments

Call Leader: Mary Poppendieck, Poppendieck LLC

08/06/08   X-Teams: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate, and Succeed
Call Leader: Deborah Ancona, MIT Sloan School of Management
06/25/08

Open Innovation Networks—Creating and managing an ecosystem for innovation
Call Leader: Mike Docherty, Venture2

04/30/08

Using Patent Analytics to Uncover and Assess Technology Innovation Opportunities – Before Your Competitors
Call Leader: Thomas Blailock, Blailock Associates

03/06/08
 

R&D in India: Advice and Lessons Learned
Call Leader: Gunjan Bagla, Amritt Ventures

01/30/08
 

Managing Customer Requirements in Volatile Environments
Call Leader: Preston Smith, New Product Dynamics

01/16/08

Green Product Design: Innovative, Customer Focused – and Profitable
Call Leader: John Bradford, InnovationFLOR Commercial

2007

 

12/05/07
 

The Honeymoon is Over — Now What? How to Leverage, Integrate and Combine Product Offerings for Corporate Survival Post Merger/Acquisition
Call Leader: Tim Bosch, Foliage

10/09/07

Negotiating International Business
Call Leader: Lothar Katz, Leadership Crossroads

10/03/07

Talk to Your CFO—How to Justify New Product Investments
Call Leader: John Farnbach, Silver Streak Partner LLC

09/20/07

Contextual Design:
From Customer Data
to Implementation

Call Leader: Karen Holtzblatt, PhD, InContext Design

08/16/07

The Lean Product Development Revolution
Call Leader: Don Reinertsen, Reinertsen & Associates

07/25/07

The Toolbox for High Speed Innovation and NPD
Call Leader: Greg Githens, Catalyst Management Consulting

07/18/07
 

Demystifying the Link between Innovation and Business Value:
A Process Framework

Call Leader: Dr. Kevin C. Desouza, University of Washington

06/27/07 Leading Business in China
Call Leader: David Everhart, Korn/Ferry International
06/19/07
 

Managing International Projects
Call Leaders: Lothar Katz, Leadership Crossroads & Sue Freedman, PhD, co-author of Beyond Teams: Building the Collaboration Organization

05/30/07
 

IP Protection and Open Source Licensing for Innovation:
What You Should Know and Do - Before Inking the Deal

Call Leader: Jim Markwith, Microsoft

05/16/07
 

Developing Products in India: The 10 Most Common Mistakes and How to avoid Them
Call Leader: Gunjan Bagla, Amritt Ventures, Inc.

04/18/07

Opportunity Discovery at the Front End of Innovation—
Five Keys to “White Space” Identification

Call Leaders: Geoff Waite & Simon Karger, Sagentia

04/11/07

Open Innovation Networks
Creating and managing an
ecosystem for innovation

Call Leader: Mike Docherty, Venture2 Inc.

03/21/07

Assessing Technology
Readiness and Maturity –
A Step-by-Step Process

Call Leader: Has Patel, Infologic

02/28/07

7 Keys to Avoiding the Traps that Annual Planning Sets for Product Development
Call Leader: Bob Becker, Product Development Advantage Group LLC

01/24/07
 

A Capacity Based Governance Method for Improving Engineering Performance
Call Leader: Ross Seider, On-Fire Associates

2006

 

12/06/06

Lean Project Portfolios
Call Leader: Eugene Kania, mc2solutions

11/15/06

The Portfolio Sweet Spot
Call Leader: Richard Tait, Product Development Consulting, Inc.

10/16/06
 

Open Innovation in China: Is it Possible?
Call Leaders: Professor Roger Nagel, Lehigh University; Dr. John C. Tao, Corporate Director, Technology Partnerships, and Bobby Chen, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (Beijing)

10/10/06

Selection Criteria for Global Projects
Call Leader: Lothar Katz, Leadership Crossroads

09/20/06

Doing Business in India —
The 10 Most Common Mistakes and How to avoid Them

Call Leader: Gunjan Bagla

09/13/06

Innovate Like Edison: Five Competencies That Generate Breakthrough Results
Call Leader: Sarah Caldicott

07/25/06

Co-Developing Products in Asia Call Leader: Lothar Katz, Leadership Crossroads

07/12/06
 

Design for Uncertainty
Call Leader: Preston Smith, New Product Dynamics

06/14/06

Bringing the Value of Lean to Product Development
Call Leader: Mark Thut and Oliver Hazimeh, PRTM

05/22/06   Alliance Constellations:
When More Partners Lead to Greater Product Success

Call Leader: Ben Gomes-Casseres,
Brandeis University
05/17/06

Getting Started with Roadmaps: Key to Successful Product Strategy
Call Leader: Ed Crowley, Photizo Group

05/08/06

Doing Business in India—The 10 Most Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Call Leader: Gunjan Bagla, Amritt Ventures, Inc.

04/26/06
 

The Clorox Model of Innovation Partnering
Call Leader: David Lowrance, The Clorox Company

03/29/06

Ten Strategies for Design Innovation
Call Leader: Alonzo Canada, Jump Associates

02/14/06

Doing Business in China: The 10 Most Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Call Leader: Dave Everhart, Ionis International

02/08/06

Accelerating Innovation, Achieving Transformational Growth: Getting Past the Pitfalls to Make R&D Partnerships Thrive
Call Leader: Gene Slowinski, PhD, author, Reinventing Corporate  Growth

01/18/06

Bringing the Value of Lean to Product Development
Call Leader: Mark Thut, PRTM

2005

 

12/07/05

Blogging for Product Developers: Valuable Tool or Passing Fad?
Call Leader: Bill Ives, Co-author
Business Blogs: A Practical Guide

11/09/05

Global Products, Global VOC: Translating Customer Needs Around the World
Call Leader: Christina Hepner Brodie, PRTM

10/19/05

Top 12 Mistakes that High Technology Product Teams Make - And How to Avoid Them
Call Leader: Martin Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group

09/14/05

The CEO's View on Measuring R&D
Call Leader: Bradford L. Goldense, Goldense Group, Inc.

08/24/05

Dealing with the "Incompleteness" of Co-Development Agreements - Everything You Wished You Decided Up-front, But Didn't
Call Leader: Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, Brandeis University

07/13/05

The Customer Value Portfolio—Predicting the Blockbusters: How to Measure Customer Value
Call Leader: Wayne Mackey, Product Development Consulting, Inc.

06/29/05

Doing Business in China—The Ten Most Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Call Leader: David Everhart, Ionis International

05/18/05

Creating a Dedicated Alliance Management Office
Call Leader: Mike Ransom, Eli Lilly & Company

04/14/05

Top Ten Ways to Screw Up Your Voice of the Customer
Call Leader: Gerry Katz, Applied Marketing Science

03/18/05

Requirements vs. Resources: Managing the Product Pipeline for Faster Time-to-Market
Call Leader: Ken Crow, President, DRM Associates

03/02/05

Effective Joint Development Agreements (JDAs) - How to Structure CoDev Alliances for Success
Call Leader: Kevin Schwartz, Principal, PRTM

02/03/05

Niches vs. Footholds: Breaking Tradeoffs to Accelerate Growth
Call Leader: Michael Raynor and Howard Weinberg, Deloitte Research

01/11/05

Product and Technology Roadmapping: Getting Started, Getting Measurable Results
Call Leader: Richard Albright, Albright Strategy Group

2004

 

12/09/04

Co-Developing Products in Asia
Call Leader: Lothar Katz, Leadership Crossroads LLC

12/09/04

How to Deliver Cost-Effective Outsourcing
Call Leader: Stuart Kliman, Vantage Partners LLC

12/08/04

Outsourcing Innovation: Leveraging External Sources to Drive Internal Growth
Call Leader: Mike Docherty, Venture2

10/20/04

Must Have or Nice to Have? What's Conjoint Analysis and How Do I Use It?
Call Leader: Brian Ottum, Ottum Research & Consulting

09/08/04

Guaranteeing Co-Development Success from the Start
Call Leader: Anton Gueth, Gueth Consulting

08/19/04

Achieving Breakthrough Innovation in Regulated Industries
Call Leader: Wayne Mackey, Product Development Consulting, Inc.

06/30/04

Top 10 Alliance Development Metrics
Call Leader: Larraine Segil, Vantage Partners LLC

06/22/04

Creating Disruptive Products
Call Leader: Bart Huthwaite, Institute for Lean Design

06/08/04

Next-Generation Product Development
Call Leader: Mike McGrath, PRTM

05/27/04

Getting VOC Right: Taking the Ambiguity Out Of Product Definition
Call Leader: Sheila Mello, Product Development Consulting, Inc.

05/18/04

Deciding What to Outsource Offshore
Call Leader: Scott Elliott, TechZecs LLC

05/05/04

Optimizing Profits Throughout the Product Lifecycle
Call Leader: Dan Bowman, PRTM

04/20/04

10 Secrets of Lean Product Design
Call Leader: Bart Huthwaite, Institute for Lean Design

04/12/04

10 Ways to Screw Up Your Voice of the Customer
Call Leader: Gerry Katz, Applied Marketing Science

03/25/04

Cisco's Top Six Checkpoints for Mutually Profitable Partnerships
Call Leader: Steve Steinhilber, Cisco Systems

03/18/04

Technology Scouting—Going Outside for Rapid Innovation
Call Leader: Jay Paap, Paap Associates

02/05/04

Creating Strong Alliances, Turning Around "Sick" Ones
Call Leaders: Gene Slowinski & Matt Sagal, co-authors, The Strongest Link

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