Fifth Annual Conference

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"Practical tools and ideas learned that can be understood and implemented in my company."
Paula Lank
Program Director
Physio-Control Corporation

Key Benefits

Learn:

• How to predict project performance in your R&D portfolio; what indicators are most reliable?

• How Sun Microsystems selects priority metrics and uses a web-based portal to manage product life cycle information

• How to justify the contribution of R&D and other hard-to-quantify activities to company financial success; what metrics the Tech Value Program (TVP) uses to prescribe corrective action?

• How to select the right value based metric for your company; what are the cautions and benefits of value based management systems?

• How United Defense LP brought their collocated production and design divisions together to develop common metrics and achieve alignment with corporate strategy

• How to determine strategic priorities and improve profit using the "Metrics Thermostat"

• How to align core R&D metrics with company vision and strategy

• Why implementing value metrics may have a powerful impact on R&D investment and overall company market value

• How to select new product winners and allocate sufficient resources to engage the right number and mix of projects to maximize portfolio value

• Strategies to bridge the gaps between project and corporate level metrics

• How to measure high and low risk; how to weigh trade-offs

• How Eli Lilly uses modeling to set and measure key performance targets in the R&D planning process

• How to identify and implement predictive metrics to reduce risk and enhance product development performance

• How to use PD Scorecards and metrics to generate greater profitability

• How Analog Devices’ stock price tripled after implementing new metrics for projects, pipeline management, R&D practices, and overall R&D effectiveness

• Methods to tie R&D strategy to operational issues and business strategy

• DaimlerChrysler’s use of metrics to foster
  continual PD improvements to surpass their remarkable past decade of NPD performance

Special Features

• Breakout sessions and roundtable discussions with
  foremost metrics experts

• Survey results and benchmarking data from renowned Goldense Group, Inc, Performance Measurement Group, and Product Development Institute, Inc.

• Three interactive pre-conference workshops:

1. Metrics Primer: Using Metrics to Improve
   Engineering Productivity
2. A Practical Guide to Achieving Metrics Buy-in
3. Proactive and Predictive R&D Metrics