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Oct 28, 2009 - Oct 30, 2009
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Technology and Innovation Management
Promote innovation by confronting the key challenges in managing, developing, and expanding technological innovation in highly market-driven companies. Managing innovation requires managing technical professionals.
The future’s big winners in new technology product opportunities are focusing today on increasing innovative activity in preparation for business expansion.
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Benefits
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Who Should Attend
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Hours & Credits
Assume Future Technology Leadership:
- Mobilize more effective, motivated, entrepreneurial team efforts
- Rapidly commercialize technical advances and innovative ideas
- Exercise leadership and decision making under technological and market uncertainty
- Develop critical management skills and allocate technical resources in changing organizational and economic environments
- Promote and lead system change within established corporate cultures
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Leading and Motivating Technical Professionals
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Understanding how professionals’ motivations change over time
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Designing the task characteristics of a highly motivating work environment
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Improving the integration and long term vitality of technical professionals
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Managing and dealing with creative ‘mavericks’ and technical professionals who have ‘plateaued’
Managing Uncertainty
- Understanding how motivation, innovation, and uncertainty are interrelated
- Dealing with risk and uncertainty
- Leveraging the creative tension between the generation and reduction of uncertainty
Managing Technology Transfer and Communication
- Understanding the role and making effective use of the technology gatekeeper
- Recognizing the effectiveness of alternative organizational structures including project, functional, and matrix-type approaches
- Overcoming the barriers to transferring technology
- Dealing with the effects of physical location and organizational architecture on technical communications and innovation
Staffing the Innovation Process
- Moving technical professionals into leadership roles
- Recognizing and balancing the critical functions necessary for carrying out innovation
- Designing managerial systems, including dual ladder, career assignment, evaluation, reward, and recognition systems
- Developing critical skills for reducing new product development cycle time
Commercializing Technical Capabilities
- Linking technology with market strategy for successful innovation in the marketplace
- Managing the technology/marketing interface and cross-functional relationships
- Maintaining creativity in long term technical efforts
- Encouraging, protecting, and sponsoring entrepreneurial risk-taking and team efforts
- Improving the transfer of technical knowledge into new products and services
- Understanding the effects of centralized/decentralized structures on communication and innovation
Managing the Decision Making Process
- Managing the tensions between development efforts and schedule pressure
- Structuring and leading decision making processes
- Involving other functional areas and building consensus
- Minimizing the detrimental effects of organization politics
Creating and Maintaining High Performing Technical Organizations
- Building collaborative cross-functional teams
- Building and sustaining motivation, performance, and innovation over time
- Identifying the skills, characteristics, and managerial styles of effective technical leaders
- Utilizing ‘marshaling’ events for overcoming the Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome
- Using culture to gain high commitment and innovative work climates
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This 3-day course is specifically designed for executives, vice presidents, R&D directors, high-level managers, and senior technical professionals responsible for technology development or the management of innovation for new products or services. |
Ralph Katz
Oct 28, 2009 - Oct 30, 2009
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Ralph Katz
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Ralph Katz, PhD, is senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School’s Management of Technology Group and professor of management at Northeastern University’s College of Business. He has carried out extensive management research and consulting on technology-based innovation with emphasis in the management of technical professionals and project teams.
The National Academy of Management awarded Dr. Katz the ‘New Concept Award’ for his significant contribution to the field of organizational behavior. He is the recipient of R&D Management's 'Best Paper' award. Dr. Katz received the IRI Maurice Holland Award for his article entitled, ‘Anticipating Disruptive Innovation,’ published in Research Technology Management.
Dr. Katz’s most recent book publication is The Human Side of Managing Technological Innovation. For over 10 years, he was the R&D/innovation and entrepreneurship departmental editor for Management Science. He has consulted with numerous organizations on problems and issues related to the management of their innovation processes and personnel for the past 35 years. Dr. Katz co-teaches the Caltech Industrial Relations Center course, Management of Technology and Innovation.
He received his PhD and MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Graduate School and a BS in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Thomas J. Allen
Oct 28, 2009 - Oct 30, 2009
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Thomas J. Allen
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Dr. Allen is Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Engineering Systems, Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is co-director of MIT’s Leaders for Manufacturing and System Design and Management Programs.
Dr. Allen is a co-instructor for the Caltech IRC course, Management of Technology and Innovation. He was director of MIT’s International Center for Research on the Management of Technology. Dr. Allen is currently studying organization design and architecture and communication within clusters of new venture technology firms.
Dr. Allen is well known for his groundbreaking studies on the problem solving and communication behaviors of engineers and scientists and the role of the technology gatekeeper for effective knowledge and information transfer.
Dr. Allen is the author of Managing the Flow of Technology and the co-author of The Organization and Architecture of Innovation. He received his PhD and SM in electrical engineering from MIT and a BS in physics from Upsala College. Dr. Allen is the recipient of Honoris Causa doctoral degrees from four European universities.
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Day 1 - 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Day 2 - 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Day 3 - 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Course Instructors
Dr. Tom Allen click for bio
Dr. Ralph Katz
Special Features
Each person attending this course receives a copy of The Human Side of Managing Technological Innovation: A Collection of Readings, 2nd ed., by Ralph Katz and
The Organization and Architecture of Innovation by Thomas J. Allen and Gunter W. Henn.
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Comments from Past Participants
"The Caltech IRC course, Management of Technology and Innovation, was one of the best courses I've attended. Caltech offers world class instructors in a remarkable learning environment. The open discussion format enabled participants from widely different industries to learn from each other. We are often faced with similar challenges regardless of our particular business and it was very helpful to learn how others deal with those challenges."
Edward B. Fritz, P.E.
Director, Ride Mechanical
Engineering
Walt Disney Imagineering
"This workshop surpassed my expectations. I wish I had taken this course earlier in my career. It would have made me much more effective as a scientist and as a manager."
Flora Tang
Associate Director, Molecular
Pharmacology
Amgen Inc.
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