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2008 Agenda Day One

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

9:00am

KEYNOTE
Corporate Portfolio Management: From Resource Allocation to Strategy

Anand Sanwal, Vice President, American Express Investment Optimization and Strategic Business Analysis

10:00am

KEYNOTE
Strategic Product Portfolio Competitive Advantage

Ron Lasser, Track Chair for Organizational Design, Professor of the Practice, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University

 

New Strategic Directions

New Operational Paths

Organizational Design

11:30am

Expanding Perspectives to Expand Revenue: How HP Uses Value-Based Management to Maximize New Product Value — Two Case Studies

David Matheson, Ph.D., co-Founder, President and CEO, SmartOrg, Inc.

Developing and Executing a Governance Gating Process in a Large Cross-Functional Organization

Haley Sofiane, Director ProgramManagement, Operations Governance and Planning, & Rodney Boone, ProgramDirector Operations Governance and Planning,WellPoint, Inc.

Fear: Causes, Attributes, and Mitigation

Dr. Ron Lasser, Professor of the Practice, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University

1:30PM

Using Competitive Intelligence for Sustainable Strategic Advantage

Glenn Johnston, Director, Business Intelligence and Investigations Practice, Kroll

Talking to the Einstein's Who Aren't In the Room: A Portfolio Manager's Guide to the Metaverse

George Gibson, Manager, R&D Portfolio Management, Xerox Corporation

Moving Your Projects/Portfolio from a Push to a Pull System

Matt Roberts, Director, Engineering Services, Hach Company

2:20pm

Product Portfolio Optimization

Scott Best SVP; Quality Deployment Executive, Innovation and Product Excellence, & John Tudors SVP, Checking Product Management and Development Executive, Bank of America

Leading Enterprise Portfolio Management Through the Challenge of Mergers and Acquisitions

Norm Buckwalter, Managing Advisor, Innovation and Planning Accident Fund Insurance Company of America

Expanding the Organization: Reaching Out Into The Marketplace

Tom W Brailsford, Manager of Advancing Capabilities, Hallmark Cards, Inc.

3:10pm

Turning Strategy Into Action

Penelope Gordon, SOA Portfolio Manager, Emerging Technologies, & Allison Kingberg, Program Director, SOA Strategy and Portfolio Management, IBM

Dichotomy Between Product and Project Portfolio Management

Madhavi Koli, Director, Product Delivery, Comdata Corporation and Adjunct Professor Dept of Mgmt and Mktg, College of Business Middle TN State University

Zen and the Art of Portfolio Management: Organizational Enlightenment While Maturing Portfolio and Resource Management Processes and Tools

Donovan Hardenbrook, Senior Consultant, Platform Operations, Intel Corporation

4:30pm

KEYNOTE
Moving Beyond Bounded Rational Economic Models of Decision-Making – Maximizing Portfolio Value Through Effective Globalization Strategies

Dr. Richard Bayney, Vice President Portfolio Planning, Johnson & Johnson, Pharmaceutical Services

Social Collaboration
Tuesday, February 26th | 5:30PM-6:30PM
Collaborative Cocktails!

In the true spirit of collaboration we invite you to join us for an hour of passed hors d'oeuvres and concoctions poured at our specialty martini bar.

Spend a little time mining for information among your delegate colleagues.

Decision strategy is yours to determine, but drinks are on us!