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

Is your company seeking to accelerate development of technology-based projects? To reduce the risk of using new and uncertain technologies – especially those acquired from external sources?

Emerging technology-based projects are often set back by cost overruns, schedule delays and performance problems. In most of these cases, technology maturity analysis hasn’t been properly conducted, and immature technologies are inserted into products and systems. This need not happen!

To make sure your technology-based products aren’t sidelined by this mistake, attend Management Roundtable’s exclusive 90-minute audio-session Assessing Technology Readiness and Maturity – A Step-by-Step Process, on March 21, 2007.
Has Patel – who has has over twenty-five years experience in product management, business development and systems architecture - will discuss:

• Current technology due diligence processes and their pitfalls

• NASA’s developed technology maturity matrix, called Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs), now widely accepted by the Department of Defense (DoD)

• A technology maturity matrix which extends the TRLs, by incorporating technology life cycles, such as the technology hype and technology adoption.

• A methodology which allows an organization to select, insert and integrate emerging technologies throughout the lifecycle of a project: TechIP (Technology Insertion Plan)

In addition to providing you with recommended guidelines and methods, Has will answer your specific questions.

This session is recommended for CTOs and managers of technology development, product development, R&D and project teams. It will be especially valuable for those working on Open Innovation projects that require integration of externally-developed technologies.

This audio session will be a 90-minute presentation with frequent opportunities for questions & answers and includes:

• Hardcopy of presentation slides sent to your office prior to session

• Your questions answered by an expert

Invite your whole team to join you - the fee is the same as long as you are on one line, just put it on speakerphone!

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Has Patel
Founder and President
Infologic

Has Patel is a founder and president of Infologic, Inc., a firm which provides professional services to private and public organizations to harness innovation. He has over twenty five years of experience in product management, business development and systems architecture. His current research interests are emerging technology insertion, enterprise architectures, and the emerging open innovation concepts. He is also a member of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) technology incubator working group. He has developed a number of methodologies to support technology insertion and product development strategies. His recent methodology development efforts include:

• TechIP (Technology Insertion Plan) helps organizations to select, evaluate, insert and manage emerging information technologies into their programs and systems. This methodology was selected for publication at two federal government conferences: (a) U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) technology maturity workshop organized by the Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL), Wright Patterson AFB, OH, April 2006, and (b) 24th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December 2004.

• InnovaTE (Innovative Technology Environment) provides a technology management model to support the emerging Open Innovation concepts.

Before founding Infologic, Mr. Patel worked for Bell Laboratories where he was responsible for product planning and technology transfer efforts to insert their database research into an office-of-the-future program.

Before joining Bell Laboratories, Mr. Patel worked for GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, BP Chemicals, and MSP, Inc. - a database software company in the IT management, product management and operations research fields. He has published a number of business and product development strategies papers in both the USA and Europe. He earned a MS in Production Engineering from University of Newcastle, England, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from M S University, India.

Mr. Patel can be reached at Infologic, Inc. 1048 Irvine Avenue # 624, Newport Beach, CA 92660. Tel: (888) 325 0500 ext. 100. email: [email protected]