An exclusive two-day workshop on how to develop, implement and successfully execute strategic roadmaps in your company

 

• Receive a step-by-step process with proven tools, templates, and Customer Focused Technology Planning® framework

• Make better technology and product investment decisions; achieve both short- and long-term ROI objectives

• Stay ahead of the competition – anticipate key opportunities, threats, and global trends

Why this workshop is important to you

For several decades roadmaps have provided a useful framework for focusing development efforts and promoting effective project management.   However, too often the reality of roadmapping fails to deliver on the promise. Why? The following are common misperceptions:

Perception: Roadmaps serve to link project activities over time
Reality: True, but roadmaps should also stimulate innovative thinking and guide product/technology investment decisions

Perception: Proven technology will best meet customer demands
Reality: To stay competitive you must also anticipate unarticulated future needs and leverage potentially disruptive technologies 

Perception: Building a roadmap will unify the organization
Reality: Roadmaps must then be adopted seriously at all levels and functions; building it is not enough

Perception: Roadmaps provide clear direction
Reality: Roadmaps must provide the right direction

For over 35 years the workshop leader, Dr. Jay Paap, has helped organizations design and implement effective roadmapping programs.  His proven planning framework, Customer Focused Technology Planning® (CFTP®) has been used throughout the world, by organizations of all types: commercial and government, consumer and B-to-B, large and small, product and service.

This session draws on Dr. Paap’s extensive experience and provides a step-by-step implementation plan as well as problem-solving and coaching to ensure success.

About the Instructor

Jay Paap is President of Paap Associates and is one of Management Roundtable’s most highly rated instructors. He also serves on the faculties of the Industrial Relations Center at Caltech and the Executive Program at The Sloan School (MIT), is a Fellow of The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, and a PDMA Certified New Product Development Professional. He received his Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management with concentrations in technology management and organization design.

Dr. Paap has been active in the management of technology for over 40 years, and has consulted with industrial and governmental organizations for 35 years. Prior to founding Paap Associates, Jay was Partner at Data and Strategies Group, Principal at Ampersand Ventures, Director of Corporate Consulting at Venture Economics, and Associate Director of the Technology Management Group at Pugh-Roberts Associates. Before entering consulting, Jay was an officer in the US Air Force, responsible for developing and deploying advanced electronics equipment.

In 1992 he founded and ran the Commercialization Roundtable in which senior business development managers from major companies met every two or three months through 1995 to share experiences on open innovation and develop best practices concerning how major corporations can effectively commercialize new technology based concepts and businesses. Among the members of the Roundtable were AT&T, Digital, Dow, DuPont, GTE, IBM, MCC, Motorola, and Xerox.

What You Will Learn

Specifically you will learn to:

• Identify current and anticipate future customer needs (as well as potentially disruptive technologies)
• Build roadmaps that link key customer needs with the right technologies
• Integrate product and technology roadmaps with revenue and growth strategies
• Manage the front-end of innovation more effectively
• Ensure that technology investments are sensitive to business needs, even when hard market numbers are not available
• Select project portfolios that balance both routine and innovative developments
• Incorporate the full range of development options into roadmaps; leverage opportunities offered by internal ventures, alliances, spin-offs and other forms of Open Innovation
• Develop implementation strategies to make roadmaps an integral part of the organization’s product and technology development practices
• Effectively use roadmaps to communicate future plans and strategies to customers, suppliers and development team members

6 Key Deliverables

You will return to your organization with:

1. Tools to build your own technology roadmapping process using Customer Focused Technology Planning® framework
2. Templates including: Product Market Matrix, Customer Needs Profile, Technology Impact Matrix, Alliance Strategy Process, and more
3. Keys to success based on examples and best practices from leading firms
4. Recommendations and advice for your specific situation
5. Comprehensive reference materials and suggested resources
6. An implementation action plan

Overall, you will come away with a roadmapping process that not only brings clarity to short-term developments, but more importantly, enables you to drive innovation, foster profitable growth, and avoid surprises.  You will be able to resolve concerns and overcome organizational barriers that often stand in the way of successful implementation.

Course Agenda

Day 1

8:15-10:00am Session 1: What is Roadmapping, why and how is it used?

• Differences between types of roadmaps: landscape vs. route; product vs. technology vs. market
  
• What roadmaps can and cannot do
  
• Why the practice often fails to meet the promise – keys to roadmapping success
  
• Exercise: Assess your firm’s roadmapping practices

10:15-12:00 Session 2: The logic behind roadmaps: Tying technology and product investments to your business

• Insights from MIT research on innovation – the Dynamics of Innovation (DOI) framework
  
• Conceptual building blocks: needs vs. wants; importance vs. leverage; technology access vs. ownership
  
• A planning framework: Customer Focused Technology Planning (CFTP)
  
• Exercise: Decipher needs derived from customer requests

12:00-1:00pm Lunch

1:00-3:00pm Session 3: Building Landscape Maps Part 1: Identifying drivers

• Planning guidelines: timing and team selection - the importance of true cross-functional interaction
  
• Selecting the areas on which to focus: the Product Market Matrix
  
• Understanding customers’ current and future needs: The Customer Need Profile
  
• Exercise: Use templates to focus roadmapping and select product and service attributes as targets for improvement
  

3:15- 4:45pm Session 4: Building Landscape Maps Part 2: Identify technical options

• Identifying potential options for addressing key customer drivers: The technology Impact matrix
  
• Assessing the readiness and suitability of technology options
  
• Evaluating your capability versus current and possible competitors
  
• Integrating insights on needs, technology options and competitors into a landscape map
  
• Exercise: Use templates to assess technology options

5:00-6:00pm Networking Reception

Day 2

8:00 -10:00am Session 5: Using Landscape Maps to build Route Maps: Turning insights into action

• Managing ideation – guidelines for effective use of landscape maps to stimulate innovation
  
• Selection context: business and technology strategies
  
• Using the NOMMAR - framework for building a business case
  
• Keys to addressing risk – the importance of identifying and managing the impact of uncertainty
  
• Exercise: Team review of landscape map

10:15-12:15 Session 6: Supporting processes: Tools to facilitate roadmapping

• Fine-tuning roadmaps (providing details and assessing positive and negative interactions)
  
• Customer insight: techniques for uncovering latent and unarticulated customer needs
  
• Anticipating disruptive innovation – how alert firms can avoid surprises
  
• Leveraging external relationships: using open innovation techniques, scouting and the Alliance Strategy Process (ASP) to manage risk and speed developments
  
• Exercise: Use templates to assess technology options

12:15-1:15pm Lunch

1:15-2:15pm Session 7: Implementing Roadmapping

• Steps for integrating roadmapping into your firm
  
• Using roadmaps to communicate, coordinate, and control: integrating roadmaps with other planning processes
  
• Common barriers to effective roadmapping and techniques for minimizing their impact industries
  
• Adapting the basic frameworks and templates to make them relevant: examples

2:30-3:45pm Session 8: Adapting the CFTP templates and process to your firm

Participants will work in teams to explore ways to introduce roadmapping or enhance their existing programs.

3:45-4:00pm Wrap-up/Session Concludes

Who Should Attend

This workshop is designed specifically for VPs, Directors and Managers of Product Development, Innovation, R&D, Marketing, Strategy, Program Management, and others involved in product and technology planning.

Experience with product and technology roadmapping is not required; cross-functional team attendance is encouraged. (Group discount available, please see registration page)

This workshop is strictly limited to 35 attendees to ensure an optimal learning experience for all participants. 
 

Course Testimonials

“This course provides an excellent summary of R&D and product development risk assessment and management that we will use immediately. The content is very relevant for senior managers at technology companies, especially the insight into the decision making process. The instructor is energetic and engaging, and was very effective in driving the class.”
David Turner
Managing Director, Fibers Division
Techmer PM

"The program is well organized and excellently delivered. The scope of the course surpassed my expectations with a mix of Jay's abundant and real business examples. I will work to integrate the technology strategy and customer focused technology plan from this course into my organization."
Demis Desta, PMP
Head of North America LTE Go to Market Program
Nokia Siemens Networks

“This course is excellent. In particular, I found the ideas and concepts related to Customer Focused Technology Planning® very valuable.”
Ron Koehler
Director, Next Generation Products
Yaskawa Electric America

“Excellent instructor! Keeps everyone engaged in the topic, providing a wealth of information and useful, real-life stories. The case studies were highly applicable, as well as the templates provided. I found the course to be very valuable and I find myself using it as a reference on a regular basis.”
Steven Eng
Program Manager
General Dynamics

“Best [workshop] I've been to in years.”
Rich Marando
Director Technology and Innovation
Dana Corporation Structural Solutions Group

Registration and Logistics Information   

Dates/Schedule: The workshop will be held June 15-16, 2010. Registration and continental breakfast begins at 7:30am on June 15; the workshop begins at 8:15am and concludes at 4:00pm on June 16.

Registration Fee:
$1995/person. Fee includes pre-workshop materials, luncheons, refreshment breaks, and post workshop follow-up. Group Discount: Teams of 3 or more that register together may deduct $100 each from the fee.

Location/Accommodations:
MIT Endicott House, 80 Haven Road, Dedham, MA http://www.mitendicotthouse.org/

The MIT Endicott House, a 25-acre estate owned by MIT, is located in Dedham – roughly 30 minutes from Logan Airport -- and near many fine restaurants and activities. The mansion offers high technology facilities in a retreat setting ideal for strategic planning. In addition to full business amenities, recreational offerings include swimming, tennis, hiking, nearby golf, and an exercise room. Downtown Boston has the Red Sox, swan boats, museums, theater, concerts, the waterfront and many historic landmarks.

Room rate: $135 per night (includes tax). Limited block available – reserve rooms early.
Please make reservations directly with Lisa Stagnone 781-251-6363 or lstag@mit.edu and mention Management Roundtable.

No-Risk Guarantee:
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed – money-back or credit. If you’re not satisfied with the quality of this program, let us know in writing and we will refund your registration fee.

Cancellations/Substitutions:
You may send a substitute attendee in your place at any time with no penalty (please inform us in advance). Cancellations made within 5 business days of the event are subject to a $500 administration fee or the full fee can be credited towards a future Management Roundtable event. No-shows are liable for the full fee.

Workshop Attire:
Business casual. Layers recommended as room temperatures may fluctuate.