Monday - April 15 |
Pre-conference Workshops |
7:30–8:30 |
Continental Breakfast & Registration |
8:30–12:00 |
AM Half-Day Workshop
Predictive Risk Management: How to Manage Market and Performance
Risks
Instructor: Wayne Mackey,
Product Development Consulting, Inc. |
8:30–12:00 |
AM Half-Day Workshop
Making Robust Decisions as a Team
Instructor: David G. Ullman,
Robust Decisions, Inc. |
12:00–1:00 |
Lunch |
1:00–4:30 |
PM Half-Day Workshop
Risk Management for Agility
Instructor: Greg Githens,
Catalyst Management Consulting |
5:00 |
Networking Reception / Exhibits Open |
Tuesday - April 16 |
Conference - Day One |
7:00–8:15 |
Continental Breakfast & Registration |
8:15–8:30 |
Chairperson's Welcoming Remarks
Sheila Mello, Conference Chair |
8:15–9:30 |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Proactive Risk Management
Preston G. Smith, New Product
Dynamics |
9:45–10:15 |
Refreshment Break |
Managing Project
Risk |
10:15–11:15 |
CASE STUDY
Using a Risk Model to Manage Project Risks
Guy Merritt, Tellabs |
11:15–12:15 |
CASE STUDY
System Dynamics Modeling to Mitigate Program Execution Risk
David B. Roggenkamp, Ford
Motor Company |
12:15–1:30 |
Luncheon |
Managing Market
Risk |
1:30–2:30 |
CASE STUDY
Assuring Profitability and Market Share through Strategic
Alignment
Paul Falkenstein, Becton
Dickinson |
2:30-3:30 |
CASE STUDY
Ascertaining Customer Needs to Reduce Market Risk
Deirdra Dougherty, Dade
Behring |
3:30–4:00 |
Refreshment Break |
Managing the Risks of New Technology and Innovation |
4:00–5:00 |
CASE STUDY
Managing Risk at the "Front-End of Innovation"
Alex Kawczak, Ashland
Specialty Chemical Company |
5:00–7:00 |
Networking Reception & Exhibits |
Wednesday - April 17 |
Conference - Day Two |
7:30–8:30 |
Continental Breakfast |
8:30–9:30 |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
The Real Options Solution to Project Valuation
F. Peter Boer, Yale
University |
9:30–10:30 |
CASE STUDY
Balancing Big Bang and Incremental Evolution Projects: Managing
the Risks of Leading Edge Scientific R&D
Ken Delcol, MDS SCIEX |
10:30–11:00 |
Refreshment Break |
11:00–12:00 |
CASE STUDY
Controlling Technical Risk
Keith E. Schleiffer, Battelle
Healthcare Products |
12:00–1:00 |
Luncheon |
Hands-On Application Sessions |
1:00–3:30 |
Session A
Applying Proactive Management to Product Development Risks:
Using a Risk Model
Facilitators: Preston G.
Smith and Guy Merritt
Session B
Application of Risk Management Approaches to NPD Decisions:
Compare and Contrast Alternative Risk Management Approaches
Facilitators: Sheila Mello
and Wayne Mackey |
3:30 |
Program Ends |