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3rd R&D-Product Development Metrics Summit
This Summit has already been held. Please visit our current Metrics Summit.
Three Seminars
Seminar Dates
MPD II |
Tuesday March 14, 2006 |
9:00AM - 5PM |
PPRD (AM) + PDMP (PM) |
Wednesday March 15, 2006 |
8:30AM - 5PM |
PDMP |
Thursday March 16, 2006 |
8:30AM - 4PM |
Testimonials By Prior Metrics Summit Attendees
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"A definitive and immersive exposure to
an important and elusive topic, presented by a leader
and driver in the industry. You will learn and be able
to immediately apply a great deal."
-Lou Perich, VP, Engineering, American Science &
Engineering
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"Addresses a topic that has been ignored
or undervalued for too long. All other aspects of Corporate
life, outside of product development, are measured and
tracked. The time has come to measure and optimize product
development."
-Mark Sherwood, Director, Engineering, Cisco Systems,
Inc.
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"Seminar would significantly improve knowledge
to implement metrics and measure to eliminate wasted
effort, product failures and improve productivity and
efficiency and change behavior."
-Shabbir Hussain, VP, R&D, Everest Software, Inc.
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"A great exposure to the principles, a conceptual
framework and the state of practice of Product Development
Metrics! Very few seminars make me think this hard!"
-Larry Rosenberger, VP, R&D, Fair Isaac Corporation
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"This seminar opened my mind to the formulation
of relevant data to create product and institutional
performance improvements."
-Chris Scheuing, Engineer, Senior Program Manager,
InterDigital Communications Corp.
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"Helped me turn my ideas on metrics from
fuzzy to specific and actionable. R & D can be a
company's biggest discretionary expense. We had better
achieve a proactive ability to measure impact and efficiency."
-Donald Munroe, VP, Global Program & Portfolio
Mgt., Invitrogen Corp.
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"This workshop gives a good overview of
a broad range of metrics - acts as a basis for a successful
implementation of control instruments to improve development
processes."
-Dietmar Tandler, VP, Development, JDSU - Acterna Germany
GmbH
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"Good mix of process discussion and metrics."
-Robert Segers, Director of Engineering, JDSU - JDS
Uniphase Acterna Unit
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"Excellent data on R & D."
-Jeff Tucker, Director, Project Mgt. Office - CATV,
JDSU - JDS Uniphase Acterna Unit
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"Great opportunity for small companies to
work with experts in the field from medium and large
companies."
-Robert Smith, General Manager, LaserCard Corporation
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"The course was great for helping validate
the metrics my department has chosen so far. It has
also given me ideas for additional metrics to incorporate,
particularly proactive and predictive. It has also been
a wonderful forum for networking with other R &
D leaders."
-Amy Parker, Project Management, Misys Healthcare System
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"This has been one of the most useful seminars
that I have attended in many years. I truly believe
that I am walking away with a tool set that will be
beneficial to me, my development organization and the
Corporation."
-Paul Flagg, Senior Director, Hardware Engineering
NMS Communications
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"The workshop successfully presented materials
and provided the opportunity to customize a set of metrics
which will bring immediate value to my organization."
-Ron Von Wald, Director, Business Development &
Technology, Omni -Tract Surgical
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"A great way to get a huge list of already
in-use metrics that real companies are using today."
-Rich Menendez, Director, Engineering & Program
Mgt., Panasas
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"My brain is full. Thanks!"
-Cory Thompson, Manager, Software Development, Plato
Learning
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"This course enabled me to quickly assemble
an initial set of metrics that can be deployed within
my Company to better measure the effectiveness of R
& D."
-Stanley Moyer, Executive Director, Telcordia Technologies
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Summit Faculty
Bradford L. Goldense, NPDP, CMfgE, CPIM, CCP [seminar leader]
is Founder and CEO of Goldense Group, Inc. [GGI],
a twenty two-six old Needham Massachusetts consulting and education
firm concentrating in advanced business and technology management
practices for line management functions. Mr. Goldense has
consulted to over 150 of the Fortune 1000 and has worked on
productivity improvement and automation projects in over 400
manufacturing locations in North and South America, Europe,
and the Middle East. Abbott Laboratories, Bayer, S.C. Johnson,
Ford, General Motors, John Deere, Phillips, Carrier, Molex,
United Technologies, Bose, and Shure are representative among
GGIs clients. Mr. Goldense is an internationally recognized
expert on both rapid product development and R&D metrics.
Brad has been an invited guest on Alexander Haigs World
Business Review, and has appeared on PBS The Business &
Technology Network, and on CNBC, and has authored or been
quoted in over 150 articles in industry trade press. Brad
is the Worldwide President of the Society of Concurrent Product
Development [SCPD], and on the Worldwide Board of Directors
for the American Society of Engineering Management [ASME].
View a more complete biography on
GGI Staff page.
John R. (Dick) Power, PMP, CFP [instructor]
is Director
of Executive Education at GGI. Mr. Power has been practicing
in the advanced and new product development and production
areas for over 30 years. He is highly experienced in project
management of large and complex high technology products from
Initial phases through production, distribution and sustaining
support. As a US Army Signal Corps Officer, retiring as a
Colonel in 1992, he was a leader in acquisition of electronic
systems. More recently, Dick worked at GTE (before its merger
with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon) as Director of Total Quality
for the Government Systems Group and later as Corporate-wide
program manager for information security. View
a more complete biography on GGI Staff page.
Donald M. Stewart [instructor]
has been practicing
in the marketing and new-product business strategy areas for
the past thirty-five years, and in the concurrent engineering
area for the past fifteen years. Mr. Stewart worked for twenty
years with Teradyne, Inc. Teradyne is the leading U.S. designer
and manufacturer of semiconductor test systems. Don held a
variety of positions at Teradyne including product manager,
sales manager, sales engineer, and market support engineer.
Mr. Stewart holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from
MIT, and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. View
a more complete biography on GGI Staff page.
Summit Location
The seminar will be held at the Four
Points Sheraton in Norwood, Massachusetts. The Four Points/Norwood
is equidistant between Boston and Providence on major U.S.
Route 1. One can fly into either Logan Airport in Massachusetts
or T.F. Green Airport in Rhode Island, each about a 45 minute
ride. (Less expensive airfares are potentially possible through
T.F. Green Airport, as well as less traffic congestion en
route.) There are several fine restaurants within walking
distance, more within a short hotel shuttle ride. A major
attraction of this hotel is its food. The General Manager
is a former chef and the head chef is a name in the Northeast.
"One Bistro," at the Four Points/Norwood, is a locally
renowned restaurant and nighttime hotspot. One of New England's
largest brand name discount shopping malls is just a short
ride south on Route 1.
A block of rooms have been reserved for this conference.
Hotel reservations must be made by Monday, February 13, 2006
to ensure availability. GGI's block of rooms will be released
back to the hotel after this date.
Summit Brochure
All 3 seminars are represented in a single brochure for the
Metrics Summit. The brochure includes a brief description
of each seminar. Discounts are available for Teams with 3
or more people registering from the same company.
Summit At-A-Glance
All three seminar agendas are portrayed in a single document
for a quick read.
Register
This Summit has already been held. Please visit our current Metrics Summit.
In the event your plans change after you register, GGI will
give you a 100% refund through end-of-business EDT Monday,
February 13, 2006. Please note that a 5% credit processing fee
will be deducted from your refund if you do choose to cancel.
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