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Leadership
Session:
Metrics for Advanced Development
Innovation Processes
 Led
by leading R&D metrics authority
Bradford
L. Goldense
President
Goldense Group, Inc.
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Bradford L. Goldense is Founder and CEO
of Goldense Group, Inc. (GGI), a 22-year
old consulting and education firm
concentrating in advanced business and
technology management practices for line
management functions. Mr. Goldense has
consulted for over 200 of the Fortune
1000 and has worked on productivity
improvement and automation projects in
over 500 manufacturing locations. GGI’s
clients include Abbott Laboratories,
Bayer, S.C. Johnson, Ford, General
Motors, John Deere, Philips, United
Technologies, Carrier, Molex, Monsanto,
Bose, Shure and more. Brad holds a B.S.
in Civil Engineering from Brown
University and an M.B.A. in Cost
Accounting and Operations from Cornell
University. Brad is a certified New
Product Development Professional by the
Product Development and Management
Association, a Certified Manufacturing
Engineer by the SME, a Certified
Computer Professional by the ICCP, and
is Certified in Production and Inventory
Management by the APICS. He is founder
and past President of the Society of
Concurrent Product Development. He is a
member of Cornell University’s
Technology Transfer Committee. |
For the
past five years, innovation has been
front and center in the thinking of R&D
executives and CEOs. Today, many
companies are making significant changes
to the way they measure the contribution
and effectiveness of their R&D
operations, with greater focus on
early-stage R&D and measuring the
performance of formalized processes.
This strategic shift is a catalyst for
tactical and operational changes.
Intellectual property activities are
moving earlier and becoming more
integrated with both advanced and
product development processes. However,
measures of innovativeness and invention
and their associated business results
are lagging.
In this
session, Brad Goldense will
examine:
- The
quantitative changes in the
allocation of development resources
towards more innovative activities
- New
formal documented early-stage
innovation processes, and industry’s
current adoption rates
- The
top metrics industry currently uses
to measure innovation
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What is behind the increasing
emphasis on known innovation and IP
metrics
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Emergent innovation metrics
An
interactive breakout session will give
participants the opportunity to identify
“advanced innovation and invention
metrics” suitable for: selecting the
best opportunities, monitoring those
activities to fruition, and measuring
their business and technical benefits.
Participants will come away from this
session with a mini set of metrics
suitable for driving, monitoring, and
measuring advanced development
activities as well as a follow-up
summary of the breakout session
learnings.
PDm Expert
Interview:
Linking
Metrics to Strategy
with Bradford L.
Goldense,
President, Goldense Group, Inc
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