Product Portfolio
& Pipeline Management
Linking
Resource Allocation to Strategy and Market Need
April
24-25, 2006
/ Chicago, IL |
New, unconventional and proven methods for evaluating opportunities
and dynamically optimizing resources; bring market intelligence to
product “go-kill” and investment decisions, identify and focus on
the competitive differentiators in your portfolio.
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Acclaimed Keynotes: |
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“If all firms face similar
obstacles to profitable growth, how do some companies
successfully burst through these barriers, leaving their
competitors in the dust?” |
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Rita Gunther McGrath
Associate Professor
Columbia Business School |
Keynote:
Accelerating Your Entrepreneurial
Mindset: Portfolio Management for Business Growth
Rita is the co-author
of best-selling book, MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves that
Drive Exceptional Business Growth and the
influential paper Discovery Driven Planning.
Where to look in your existing business platform to find
‘marketbusters,’ strategic moves that dramatically reconfigure
profit streams and upend conventional competition. |
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"The goal is to focus on a
very few very bold ideas that tend to work, as opposed to many,
many ideas all over the place that tend to fail."
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Larry Keeley
Innovation Strategist
President and Co-Founder
Doblin, Inc. |
Keynote: Finding the Future
First...
Larry is author
of Taming of the New, on portfolio management innovation
- why a traditional gated portfolio management process may
greatly impede portfolio optimization and innovation
effectiveness. |
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FEatured
Presentation: |
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Jim Brown
Vice President, Global Product
Innovation & Engineering Research
Aberdeen Group, Inc. |
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Feature:
The Product Innovation
Agenda for high-value Portfolios |
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Confirmed case
studies: |
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Motorola,
Kiva Allgood, Senior Director, North America
Go-to-Market—how to maintain a solid
portfolio planning process – and still be able to respond
dynamically to shifts in resources and funding needs
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AT&T, Dave Davis,
Program Manager, PMP, —controlling
dynamic priorities and resources with a portfolio management
process
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Whirlpool,
Pamela S. Rogers,
Corporate
Director, Global Innovation & Customer Excellence—tying
innovation to customer loyalty and brand loyalty and innovation
& portfolio management
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Eli Lilly,
Dr. Jay Andersen, Sr. Research Fellow,
Decision Sciences—how to keep your portfolio management
process intact when corporate governance changes dramatically
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Air
Products and Chemicals,
Naser Chowdhury, Global Product Manager
and Dr. Ron
Pierantozzi,
Director, New Business Development
providing an overview of a broad application of portfolio
and resource management tools for R&D and NPD
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Boeing Commercial Airplanes,
Ben Almojuela, Associate Technical
Fellow,
Product
Development—how to effectively integrate
disruptive innovation into your portfolio management process
...See All
Case Studies |
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Choose from
2 Pre-Conference Workshops: |
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HALF-DAY SESSION
Optimizing
the Business Value of Projects & Portfolios
Instructor:
David Matheson,
SmartOrg, Inc....More
Info
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HALF-DAY SESSION
Portfolio Syndrome: Customer Value Driven Portfolio Management &
Innovation
Instructor:
Sheila Mello
& Ronald Lasser, Product
Development Consulting, Inc....More
Info
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Available Mon-Fri
9:30am-5pm est |
Download Brochure |
PPM2006-bro.pdf
272kb |
Conference Info |
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SPECIAL BONUS!
All attendees of this
conference will receive a FREE
copy of
Rita Gunther McGrath's new book:
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CONFERENCE SPONSORS
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