Tenth Annual
Signature Series 2008
The Best in Technology Management
Co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Center for the Development of Technological Leadership (CDTL) and the University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR)
Apply the best in technology management to improve on-the-job performance:
- Targeted business, management, and leadership skills for tech-based leaders, project specialists, managers, and executives
- Innovative concepts in technology management to be used on the job immediately
- Strategies for leveraging technology across multiple facets of business
- A powerful combination of topics – innovation, strategic technology management, entrepreneurship, and finance – help participants move their companies forward
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Signature Series Outline
Week One
September 22-25 ________________________________
Monday, September 22
Conflict Management
Description and Objectives
Learn theory and practice methods for applying conflict management techniques in an organization. Includes cooperative and competitive models of conflict, basics of bargaining, conflict strategies, communication styles, listening skills, dispute resolution, and third-party mediation.
About the Instructor
Thomas Fiutak, Ed.D., Visiting Scholar, College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota
Former positions include Director, Conflict and Change Center, and Fellow at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, coordinator of the Graduate Conflict Management Minor and the University Mediation Program, Executive Director of the International Association for Conflict Management. Research and teaching focus includes conflict management theory, negotiation, conflict cultures, especially in academe, and the role perceived culture plays in adapting models of mediation. Dr. Fiutak has trained mediators in the U.S., the Philippines and Europe; he has provided consulting and training in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Moldova, France, Egypt, Germany, Malta, Thailand, Tanzania, and India. He is a consultant with the World Bank and was a facilitator for the “Listening to the City” post 9/11 summit for the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
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Tuesday, September 23
Strategic Cost Management
Description and Objectives
Introduction to cost system design and assigning capacity costs, activity-based costing, using activity-based costing to assess customer profitability, and use of the balanced scorecard to communicate and devise strategy.
About the Instructor
Charles Caliendo is Senior Lecturer of Accounting at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He has served as a lecturer at a number of colleges in the United States as well as such schools as Vienna University in Austria, University Jean Moulin (Lyon, France), and Sun Yat Sen University in China. Mr. Caliendo received his law degree from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia after working for several years in public accounting. He also holds the title of CPA (inactive) and received his Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Minnesota he practiced in the Minneapolis office of KPMG in the International Tax area, and has been a consultant to numerous corporations including America Online; McGuire, Woods, Battle & Booth Law Firm; Motorola; Cargill; Carlson Companies; Kurt Salmon Associates Consulting; Merrill Lynch; and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His expertise includes financial statement analysis and the relationship between accounting information and stock price movement; effects on accounting information processing and reporting related to Sarbanes Oxley legislation; international accounting issues, e.g., International Financial Reporting Standards and the convergence of accounting standards.
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Wednesday, September 24
Managing New Product Development for Business Growth
Description and Objectives
Marketing focus on new product development to enhance business growth. Includes the impact of implementing a marketing focus, creating and sustaining product value, enhancing new product success, and managing a product portfolio.
About the Instructor
Michael W. Wright is a 25-year veteran of high-technology industries. He is currently CEO of Advanced Inquiry Systems, Inc. He is former president and chief officer at Entegris Inc. and has also served in a broad range of leadership roles at Integrated Air Systems, General Signal, Integrated Solutions, and Empak. Mr. Wright is a founder of Wright, Williams and Kelly the largest cost modeling software and consulting company in the country.
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Thursday, September 24
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Description and Objectives
Identify and develop new business opportunities within an existing corporation. Explore ways to make an established corporation “entrepreneurial” and market new technologies both within and outside a corporation.
About the Instructor
Tarun Soni, Ph.D., is director for Emerging Technologies within Argon ST, based in San Diego. Prior to this he was the chief engineer for Mission Systems, a business group within General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems based in Bloomington, Minnesota. In prior positions, Dr. Soni has led teams in a wide variety of high-technology organizations such as NASA and startup companies. His technology experience ranges from chip design to sensor processing and software development for embedded, real-time systems. His diverse experience base also includes teaching in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Soni is the author of more than 30 publications and sits on the technical review committee of several conferences. He has a doctorate degree from the University of California, San Diego, and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. His current research interests stray towards understanding complex systems.
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Week Two
October 20-23 __________________________________
Monday, October 20
Managing Innovation in a Technological Environment
Description and Objectives
Define and explore various dimensions of innovation, e.g., invention, discovery, creativity. Discuss management of innovation in a technological setting and the benefits of it to an organization.
About the Instructor
Lockwood Carlson, Ph.D., is president of Carlson Consulting Group and the James Renier Chair in Technological Leadership for the Master of Science in Management of Technology (MOT) in the Center for the Development of Technological Leadership and Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Carlson has 39 years of work experience with 3M Company, most recently in Corporate Enterprise Development. He consults with many US companies on technology foresight, innovation, opportunities evaluation, and strategies for small and large business enterprises; business evaluation and commercialization of new products in information technology, electronics, medical devices, communications, software, and advanced materials; business development, and start up business processes.
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Tuesday, October 21
Technology Development and Management in a Global Environment
Description and Objectives
Learn about issues in the development and internationalization of technology and business, examining technology management with a special focus on international management of technology.
About the Instructor
Dr. Massoud Amin holds the Honeywell/Harold W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership, is the Director of the Center for the Development of Technological Leadership (CDTL), and is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he serves as the director of graduate studies for the management of technology program and teaches several courses including Science and Technology Policy, Emerging and Pivotal Technologies, Global Management of Technology, Intellectual Property Valuation and Strategy, and Critical Infrastructure Security and Protection.
Prior to joining the University of Minnesota in March 2003, Dr. Amin held positions of increased responsibility including Area Manager of Infrastructure Security, Grid Operations/Planning, Markets, Risk and Policy Assessment at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California. In the aftermath of tragic events of 9/11 he directed all security-related research and development at EPRI. Prior to October 2001, he served as manager of mathematics and information science at EPRI, where he led strategic R&D in modeling, simulation, optimization, and control of national infrastructures for energy, telecommunication, transportation, and finance. Dr. Amin developed the foundations and coined the term “self-healing grid” and led the development of more than 24 advanced technologies transferred to the industry.
Dr. Amin is the author or co-author of more than 125 research papers and the editor of seven collections of manuscripts, and serves on the editorial boards of six academic journals. At Washington University, students voted him three times Professor of the Year (voted annually by seniors in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University, 1992-1995), Mentor-of-The-Year (Assoc. of Graduate Engineering Students, Feb. 1996), and the Leadership Award (voted by the senior engineering class, May 1995). At EPRI he received several awards including the 2002 President’s Award for the Infrastructure Security Initiative, 2000 and 2002 Chauncey Awards (the highest annual EPRI Award, in March 2001 and 2003), and six EPRI Performance Recognition Awards during 1999-2002 for leadership in three areas.
In May 2007 Professor Amin was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance (IIIA) "for contributions to homeland security, scholarly achievements in infrastructure protection and information assurance, effective leadership, and commitment to teaching and mentoring university students." The grade of Fellow is awarded to only a few (2-4) highly distinguished researchers per year by the IIIA to recognize extraordinary contributions and leadership in infrastructure and/or information assurance, National Academies, Washington DC.
He is a member several boards including the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Board on Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BMSA) at the National Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, a senior member of IEEE, AAAS, AIAA, ASME, NY Academy of Sciences, SIAM, and Informs. Dr. Amin holds B.S. (cum laude) and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in systems science and mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. For more information please see http://umn.edu/~amin.
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Wednesday, October 22
Communication in a Technical Environment
Description and Objectives
Focus on effective communication principles and techniques to motivate action and effect change.
About the Instructor
Stephen Wilbers is a writing consultant, syndicated columnist, and award-winning author and instructor. Since 1983 he has offered presentations and seminars to more than 6,500 business, technical, legal, academic, and creative writers. At the University of Minnesota main campus, he teaches business communications in the Center for the Development of Technological Leadership's Master of Science in Management of Technology and for years taught in the Carlson School's MBA program.
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Thursday, October 23
Strategic Management of Technology
Description and Objectives
Introduction to the strategic management of technology. Participants gain an understanding of strategic management issues related to technology-based businesses.
About the Instructor
Alfred Marcus holds the Edson W. Spencer Land Grant Chair in the Center for the Development of Technological Leadership and is a professor in Strategic Management and Organization at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. His research expertise is in business strategy, business and the natural environment, safety and quality, business regulation and deregulation, electric utilities and the energy industry, organizational learning and competence acquisition. Prof. Marcus's consulting work has included projects for Corning, IBM, 3M, national and regional power companies including Xcel Energy.
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Contact Information
Teresa Puetz
Program Director
University of Minnesota Rochester
111 South Broadway
Rochester, MN 55904
Office: 507-280-3581
E-mail: puetz008@umn.edu
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A series of eight one-day courses:
September 22-25
October 20-23
8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Contact:
Julie (Densmore) Sawyer at
507-280-3104
densmore@umn.edu |
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