Wednesday - November 1 |
Pre-Conference Workshops |
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7:30a-8:30a |
Continental Breakfast & Registration |
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8:30a-12:00p |
Workshop A.
Metrics Primer: Using Metrics to Improve Engineering Productivity
Instructor: Bob Neel, Product Development
Process Consulting |
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Workshop B.
A Practical Guide to Achieving Metrics Buy-In
Instructor: Wayne Mackey, Product
Development Consulting, Inc. |
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12:00p-1:00p |
Lunch |
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1:00a-4:30p |
Workshop C.
PPRD: Proactive and Predictive R&D Metrics
Instructor: Bradford L. Goldense, Goldense
Group, Inc. |
Thursday - November 2 |
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7:150a-8:15p |
Continental Breakfast & Registration |
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8:15a-8:30a |
Welcome
- Management Roundtable |
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8:30a-10:00a |
Keynote:
Portfolio Performance Metrics for New Product Development
Robert G. Cooper, Product Development Institute, Inc.,
and author, Portfolio Management for New Products |
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10:00a-10:30a |
Refreshment Break |
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10:30a-11:30a |
IRI's Tech Value Program: Tools for Enhancing Technology's
Contribution to Corporate Wealth
Dr. Trueman Parish, former Director of Frontier &
Exploratory Research, Eastman Chemical Company, IRI Emeritus |
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11:30a-12:30p |
Going Overboard on Platforms: An Analysis of One Firm's Use of
Metrics
Gerald M. Katz, Applied Marketing Science, Inc.
Download a copy of MIT Professor John Hauser's paper: "Metrics
Thermostat" or
read an article about it from
PDBPR. |
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12:30a-2:00p |
Luncheon breakout sessions:
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Breakthrough Results Through Data Visualization
- Tom Schuler and Jay Frankenfield, SDF Global Solutions
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The Competitive Benefits of Continuous Benchmarking
- Peter Tarbox, Performance Measurement Group LLC
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Unbalance Your Scorecard: A Common Sense Approach for
Simplifying teh Web of Product Development Metrics-
Dr. Ajai Kapoor, Speed to Market
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2:00p-3:00p |
Building Organizational Knowledge: Product Life Cycle Metrics at Sun
Microsystems
Johnathan Propp, Sun Microsystems |
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3:00p-3:30p |
Refreshment Break |
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3:30p-4:30p |
What Analog Devices (ADI) Learned with Product Development Metrics
Through the Eyes of a Pioneer
Robert Stasey, Analog Devices |
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4:30p-5:30p |
Web-Based Benchmarking for Portfolio and Pipeline Management
Michelle Rolloff, Performance Measurement Group LLC |
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5:30p-7:00p |
Networking Reception |
Friday - November 3 |
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7:00a-8:00a |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:00a-9:00a |
Metrics Use in Industry: 2000 Product Development Metrics Survey
Results
Bradford L. Goldense, Goldense
Group, Inc.
Click here for Preliminary Survey Results |
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9:00a-10:00a |
Building Alignment within the Organization
David Whitmore, United Defense LP |
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10:00a-10:30a |
Refreshment Break |
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10:30a-11:30a |
Understanding Value-Based Management Systems and Their Impact on
Market Value
Prof. John B. Gallagher, Maryville College |
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11:30a-1:00p |
Luncheon Breakout Sessions:
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Gaining Alignment and Buy-In
- Wayne Mackey, PDC and David Whitmore, United Defense
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Innovation Metrics - Dr.
Trueman Parish, IRI
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Selecting the Right Value Metrics for Your Company
- Prof. John B. Gallagher, Maryville College
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Trading Off Cost, Speed and Other Business Objectives
- Preston Smith, New Product Dynamics
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1:00p-2:00p |
Chrysler's Successful Transformation to a Product & Process-Driven
Company
Roger Lundberg, DaimlerChrysler |
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2:00p-3:00p |
Modeling as a Tool to Facilitate the R&D Planning Process
Paul R. Bunch, Ph.D., and Deepa Gangwani, Eli Lilly and
Company |
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3:00p |
Close of Conference |
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