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Management Roundtable presents the first annual
Customer Needs Discovery
& Innovation Congress
Beyond 'Voice' to Total User Experience

August 13-15, 2007 / Chicago, IL

AGENDA

Monday, August 13

Pre-Conference Workshops
7:00-8:00 Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00-12:00 WORKSHOP A - AM HALF-DAY
The Customer Archetype: Benchmarking Key Dimensions of Customer Needs, Wants and Aspirations

Instructor: Michael Eckersley, PhD, HumanCentered
8:00-5:00  WORKSHOP B - FULL-DAY
From Recruiting to Reporting: Best Practices in Ethnography
Instructors: Melinda Rea-Holloway & Julie Peggar, Ethnographic Research, Inc.
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-5:00 WORKSHOP C - PM HALF-DAY
Winning the Customer's Buying Decision Instructor: Peter Marks,
Design Insight
5:30-6:30 Networking Reception / Exhibits

Tuesday, August 14

Conference Day One
6:00-8:00 Registration & Continental Breakfast
7:00-7:45 SPECIAL BREAKFAST SESSION
The Final Word(s) on Meeting Customer Needs: Value, Value, and Value

Sheila Mello,
Product Development Consulting, Inc.
8:00-8:10 Welcoming Remarks
Management Roundtable
8:10-8:30 Conference Day One Overview
Peter Marks, Conference Chairman, Design Insight
8:30-9:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
From Ethnography to Innovative Products: It's Not "Add Research and Stir"
Herman D'Hooge,
Innovation Strategist, Intel
Tools, Methods and New Approaches
to Identify Customer Needs
9:45-10:30 CASE STUDY
Impactful Ethnography in Product Development: Integrating Deep Insights Across a Product Division
Donna K. Flynn, PhD,
Microsoft Corporation
10:30-10:45 Refreshment Break / Exhibits
10:45-11:30 CASE STUDY
Understanding Work, Workers and WorkSpaces through User Centered Design
Joyce Bromberg
, Steelcase, Inc.
11:30-12:15 CASE STUDY
Consumer Innovation – Unleashing the Power of your Community
Søren Lund
, Senior Director, Lego® Mindstorms®
12:15-1:30 Lunch / Exhibits
1:30-2:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Pragmatic Innovation—Using Stakeholder Insights to Deliver Highly Valued Products
Johnathan Cagan
, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; and co-author, Creating Breakthrough Products and The Design of Things to Come
  Track A
Increasing Customer Value by Applying Strategic Outsourcing to Product Design
Track B
On-Line Communities—Gaining Access to Customer Conversations
2:30-3:15 CASE STUDY
Stealth Approach & Creating Total User Experience
Mike Roosa, Bit 7
CASE STUDY
Hearing the Voice of the Market: Creating and Using Online Communities to Access Consumer Input

Thomas W. Brailsford
, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
3:15-3:30 Refreshment Break / Exhibits
3:30-4:15 CASE STUDY
Creating Meaningful, Authentic Experiences: Connecting Sirius Satellite Radio To Their Next Generation Customers
David Thorpe,
ZIBA Design
CASE STUDY
Voice of Customer Insights Database: Integration of On-line Screening into the Innovation Process
Richard Staten,
Senior Manager, Innovation Business Development, The Coca-Cola Company
4:15-5:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
What is a Customer Need? Defining the Inputs Into Innovation
Tony Ulwick, CEO, Strategyn and author, What Customers Want
5:15-5:30 Day One Key Takeaways
Peter Marks, Conference Chairman, Design Insight
6:00-7:30 Networking Reception / Exhibits

Wednesday, August 15

Conference Day Two
7:00-7:45 SPECIAL BREAKFAST SESSION
The State of Voice of the Customer:
Settling the Really Big Debates

Gerry Katz & John Mitchell,
Applied Marketing Science, Inc.
7:00-8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15 Conference Day Two Overview
Peter Marks, Conference Chairman, Design Insight
8:15-9:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Customer-Centric Innovation to Drive Growth
Peter Skarzynski, CEO and founder, Strategos
  Track A
Taking Action—Analyzing, Translating & Incorporating Customer Insights into Product Requirements
Track B
Capturing Hidden Requirements – Cutting Edge Techniques for Uncovering User-Led Product and Service Innovations
9:30-10:15 CASE STUDY
Increasing New Product Success: Letting Customer Needs Drive NPD
Hernando Gonzales, Sun Microsystems
FEATURED PRESENTATION
Needs Clusters: An Accelerated Method for Creating User Centered Insights for Innovation
Jeremy Alexis, IIT Institute of Design
10:15-10:30 Refreshment Break / Exhibits
10:30-11:15 CASE STUDY
Understanding Customer Motivations—Interpreting for Innovation & Execution
Scott Engle, Boston Scientific
CASE STUDY
Deriving Customer Insight from Unstructured Information
W. Scott Spangler
, IBM
11:15-12:00 CASE STUDY
Ensuring Valid Interpretations of Customer Insights with Market-Driven Product Definition
Cecelia Henderson
, BD
CASE STUDY
What Do Customers Really Do?

Christopher J. Carlson, Sr.,
Whirlpool Corporation
12:00-1:15 Lunch / Exhibits
Incorporating Customer Insights
Across All Business Operations
1:15-2:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Glue Your Finger to the Customer's Pulse
Christopher Meyer, PhD
, Chairman, Strategic Alignment Group, author, Fast Cycle Time
2:30-3:15 Keynote Panel Session
Panelists: Herman D'Hooge
, Intel; Johnathan Cagan, Carnegie Mellon; Tony Ulwick, Strategyn; and Christopher Meyer, PhD, Strategic Alignment Group
3:15-3:30 Conference Key Takeaways
Peter Marks, Conference Chairman, Design Insight
3:30 Conference Adjourns

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