Luncheon Breakout Sessions
Wednesday, November
14
11:30am - 12:45pm
Luncheon breakout sessions are an
excellent opportunity to gain information about specific approaches
or solutions. Sessions are limited and provide an informal setting
for you to ask questions and meet with other attendees that have
similar interests. Choose from one of the following luncheon
breakout sessions:
 Knowledge-Centric
New Product Development
Accelerating NPD Decision-Making
Charles "Chad" Weinstein,
PhD [Bio]
Director, Knowledge Management Services
Sopheon Corporation
Research indicates that nearly
half of new product development (NPD) efforts fail. This
presentation explores how a growing number of companies are beating
these odds by deploying proven information management technologies
and techniques and improved market, competitive and technology
research in novel ways. These NPD organizations are becoming
"knowledge-centric," demonstrating:
- Improved ideation and innovation
- Better-informed strategic decision-making, selecting winning
projects, etc.
- Coordinated and informed project teams
- Collaborative work processes within and among project teams
- Learning that is shared among projects and captured for future
re-use.
This presentation will focus on an
evolutionary process for developing these features, using examples
from research and client engagements.
 Product
Lifecycle Automation—Accelerating Product Development
Paul Webb
Chairman
Novare
Developing products globally
has become so complex that it threatens to fall into chaos. To
create and introduce the best products, in a predictable and
repeatable fashion, requires consistent, well-managed processes
across a company. Forward thinking organizations are leveraging the
latest technologies to:
- Automate product development
- Effectively manage resources
- Provide visibility into the
development pipeline
- Support strategic portfolio
decisions
Learn how global 1000 companies
are using Product Lifecycle Automation to gain a competitive
advantage. Walk away with a white paper outlining the benefits of
Product Lifecycle Automation and the technology necessary for its
implementation. Quantify the benefits specific to your company with
our ROI calculator.
Constraints-based Portfolio and Pipeline Management: Delivering
More, Faster and with the Same Resources
Sanjeev Gupta
CEO
Speed to Market
All of us intuitively know that
R&D ROI can be increased by 100-200% if resources (technology,
people, machines etc.) are allocated to the most attractive
opportunities and stable priorities are set during execution.
Question is - how to do it in an environment of high variability,
conflicting objectives and limited, unreliable data?
Sanjeev will present how companies such as LSI
Logic, Medtronic, Philips, Pharmacia, Seagate and Siemens are using
a new approach – constraints based resource optimization – to boost
R&D ROI. Benefits of this approach include boost in throughput and
speed (by 30-50%), reduced data needs (by 50-75%), and increased
management control.
Sanjeev Gupta is CEO of Speed to Market. Speed
to Market offers solutions for managing product development and is
based in San Jose. Before this, Sanjeev was founder & CEO of
Thru-Put Technologies, a supply chain software company that was
acquired by MAPICS. He has also held multiple management positions
with Xerox. |
