-- Fostering and commercializing innovation repeatedly
-- Empowering engineers to design more innovative products
-- Coordinating product development across as well as outside the
enterprise
-- Manage successful design efforts through outsourced design and supply
chain partners
The PIE Summit is part of the acclaimed Aberdeen Summit Series. These
seminars bring corporate executives and industry thought leaders together
to share information and provide actionable recommendations for
organizational improvement. Summit participation is limited to 250
executive level participants.
Executive-led discussions identified the critical components of product
innovation including breakthroughs in developing profitable products.
Participants are now one step ahead of their competitors with the help of
the insights of Best-in-Class product innovators, which can be immediately
adopted to improve product development and engineering performance.
Summit participant Eric Bostrom, Engineering Manager of AUTOMOTION, INC.,
had this to say about the recent summit: "Thank you for hosting PIE Summit!
The speakers were excellent and they presented many great ideas that I am
taking back to my organization. I expect the concepts presented at the PIE
Summit will have a positive affect on my company for years to come."
Summit presenters included:
-- Karl Ulrich, CIBC Professor and Chair at the Wharton School, Univ of
Penn
-- Captain Dennis O'Donoghue, VP of Test & Validation, Boeing Commercial
Airplanes
-- Jeff Weedman, VP of External Development, Procter & Gamble
-- Kiho Sohn, Chief Knowledge Officer, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
-- Gary Yezbick, VP of Operational and Technological Services, Masco
Corp.
-- Nan Mattai, SVP of Engineering and Technology, Rockwell Collins
-- Chris Weiss, VP of Engineering, The Knapheide Manufacturing Company
-- Julianne Claybaugh, Corporate Practice Leader Operational Excellence,
Intel Corporation
-- Gary DeGregario, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Motorola
-- David Prawel, Founder, Longview Advisors
-- David Maltz, Director of Device Technology, Nektar Therapeutics
-- Dr. Michael Menke, Former Chief Portfolio Advocate and Business
Strategist, Strategic Planning and Modeling (SPaM), Hewlett Packard
-- David Disberger, Director of Engineering, AGCO Corporation
"I was really impressed with the breadth and quality of speakers and the
level of resulting discussion. I learned a tremendous amount and felt
fortunate to have the opportunity to talk through the issues I face in
common with my peers -- it really was an effective learning environment.
The Aberdeen team did a great job ensuring that the various speakers
complemented one another -- there were themes, and little overlap in terms
of key takeaways," stated David Maltz, Director of Device Technology,
Nektar Therapeutics, PIE Summit Presenter.
"This summit followed in the footsteps of the 2007 PIE Summit and
successfully brought together industry executives and Best-in-Class product
innovation practitioners, to share success stories and provide actionable
recommendations for improving product development and engineering
performance," said Jim Brown, Senior Vice President of Product Innovation
Research at Aberdeen. "It is exciting to see that this conference is viewed
as a staple in the planning process of so many organizations that look to
Aberdeen's research findings to aid in the transformation of product
innovation processes."
During the proceedings Aberdeen recognized five Best-in-Class organizations
with a 2008 Aberdeen Achievement Award for their accomplishments in product
innovation. The recipients included:
-- John Deere, who received the Process Excellence Award for
demonstrating process ingenuity, agility, flexibility and scalability in
addressing changing business requirements
-- GE Healthcare, who received the Performance Excellence Award for
harnessing the performance impacts of value chain activities and mastering
methodologies for financial, operational, and customer-centric performance
excellence
-- Seagate Technology, who received the Executive Stewardship Award for
achieving performance heights due to the direct involvement and leadership
of executive management
-- Phillips Plastics, who received the Business Evolution Award for
managing information flow across internal functional practices to achieve
measurable business growth
-- Bose, who received the Innovation in Technology Award for maximizing
technology solutions in order to solve pressing product development issues
and positively impact company performance
Congratulations to the award winners for their excellence in the product
innovation & engineering arena! For additional information on the summit,
visit http://www.aberdeen.com/events/live/PIE08.
The 2008 PIE Summit sponsoring companies included: Autodesk, IHS, Invention
Machine, Kalypso, Siemens, SmartOrg, ANSYS, and Lattice Technology.
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