| The Twin Cities IEEE Engineering
Management Society Invites You to Attend:
Technology Roadmapping: What is it and why do I care?
Ben
Manning
Manager of Strategic Technologies
Lockheed-Martin Tactical Systems
September 25, 2003
6:00pm until 8:30pm
Lockheed Martin
3333 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan, MN
About the Topic:
Technology
roadmapping is emerging as the primary means of communicating the
complexities of technology planning between cross-functional communities.
Countries use it to plan geographic locations for industry, companies use
it to plan product developments or strategic partnering, suppliers use a
simple form to show us where their product families are heading, and even
the US government is promoting the "Roadmap for Peace" in the
Middle East.
This talk will focus on the approach developed by Rob Phaal and his
colleagues at Cambridge University, England. The Cambridge group
have developed what they call the T-Plan Fast Start approach to technology
roadmapping, which involves a series of short workshops to develop the key
information sets and combine them into the roadmap. The talk will
also address the state of the marketplace in terms of technology
roadmapping tools and who is using them.
If
you are interested in how to manage relationships between your business
goals, key technologies, and the marketplace over time you will find this
topic of major interest. If not, just check it out to keep abreast
of evolving techniques in the engineering management arena.
About the Speaker:
Ben Manning is currently manager of Strategic
Technologies for Lockheed Martin in Eagan, MN. He grew up in
Northwest England and moved to the USA in late 1971. He has been
with the same company for 33 years, starting at Univac in London, England
and through a series of mergers ending up with Lockheed Martin in Eagan,
MN. For much of the past 20+ years he has managed R&D projects
in a variety of areas related to computer technology.
Ben
has been very active in the local IEEE Section: he is currently Vice Chair
of the Twin Cities Engineering Management Society chapter. Previous
activities include: 2001 Twin Cities Section Chair, 2000 Twin Cities
Section Vice Chair, 1999 Twin Cities Computer Society Chair, and IEEE
Sections Congress '99 Closing Ceremony Chair. In 1998 he received
the IEEE Twin Cities Section "Outstanding Engineer" award.
Ben has a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Software Engineering.
Location:
Lockheed Martin
facility at 3333 Pilot Knob Road in Eagan corner of Pilot Knob Road and
Yankee Doodle Road).
Directions from Minneapolis: Take 35W south to Interstate 494.
Then take I494 east to Pilot Knob Road; then south on Pilot Knob
Road to Yankee Doodle Road.
Directions from St. Paul: Take
35E south to Yankee Doodle Road; then west on Yankee Doodle Road to Pilot
Knob Road.
Use the visitor
parking on the south side of the building (off Yankee Doodle Road) and the
south entrance.
For
maps see http://www.lockheedmartin.com/minn/direc.htm
Cost:
Free
for both members and non-members. Food and Pop will be
provided!!!
Agenda:
6:00-7:00 Welcome, Announcements, Introduction, Networking,
Food!
7:00-8:00 Presentation
8:00-8:30 Q&A
Registration:
Lockheed Martin is a secure facility.
Please be prepared to show a picture ID as you enter the building.
We need to know how many non-US citizens will be attending the meeting (it
effects the number of escorts we will need at the Lockheed Martin
facilities (and we need to know how much food to bring) so please pre-register if possible on or before Noon on
Thursday, September 25th, 2003 by
using the
online registration form at:
http://www.tc-ieee-ems.org/meetingregistration.htm
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