Final Program - Omtec

Final ProgramAddresses, Educational Sessions/WorkshopsWe will address these specific points:• y Current corporate trends in OI• y Process maturity levels in OI• y Marketplace valuation of OI• y Current corporate trends in IP• y Process maturity levels in IP• y Marketplace valuation of IPAttendees will receive these tools to put to immediate use:• y Frameworks for creating successful OI relationships• y Emerging lessons learned about the effectiveness ofcertain OI techniques• y Successful management behaviors that foster OI• y Process suggestions for better alignment of allinnovation with IP• y Understanding of future IP impact on companybalance sheets• y Sources of nascent IP exchanges and mutual fundsBIO: Brad Goldense is Founder and Chief Executive Officerof Goldense Group, Inc. (GGI), a 20-year-old consulting andeducation firm concentrating on advanced business andtechnology management practices for line managementfunctions. Mr. Goldense has consulted for over 200 of theFortune 1000 and has worked on productivity improvementand automation projects in over 500 manufacturing locations.He has worked in North America, South America, Europe,Asia and the Middle East. Abbott Laboratories, Bayer, S.C.Johnson, Ford, General Motors, John Deere, Philips, UnitedTechnologies, Carrier, Molex, Monsanto, Bose and Shure areamong GGI’s clients.Mr. Goldense is a member of the faculty at the Gordon Instituteof Tufts University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in CivilEngineering from Brown University and a Master of BusinessAdministration in Cost Accounting and Operations from CornellUniversity. Brad is a certified New Product DevelopmentProfessional by the Product Development and ManagementAssociation, a Certified Manufacturing Engineer by the SME, aCertified Computer Professional by the ICCP, and is Certifiedin Production and Inventory Management by the APICS.He is Worldwide President of Society of Concurrent ProductDevelopment. He is a member of Cornell University’s TechnologyTransfer Committee and recently served a three-year term onCornell’s Advisory Council. Brad is a past member of the Board ofDirectors of the American Society for Engineering Management.Mr. Goldense has been an invited guest on Alexander Haig’sWorld Business Review and has appeared on Public Television,PBS, The Business & Technology Network and CNBC. Brad hasauthored or been quoted in over 150 articles on competitiveproduct development and manufacturing with known industrypublications such as CFO, Design News, Machine Design andPurchasing. He is an internationally recognized expert in rapidproduct development practices and in R&D metrics.Prior to founding GGI in 1986, Mr. Goldense held positionsat Computer Sciences Corporation’s Index Group, PriceWaterhouse, Lester B. Knight & Associates and Texas Instruments.Workshop: The True Cost of OffshoringJohn W. Henke Jr., Ph.D.Planning Perspectives, Inc. and Oakland University,School of Business AdministrationThursday, June 179:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.The allure of purchasing goods from Low Cost Countries atlowest piece price is losing its luster as Purchasing organizationsrealize the need to ensure the lowest Total Delivered Cost to thefirm or, as the more enlightened Purchasing organization arepursuing, the Lowest Sustainable Cost. The complexities andrisks of the world’s business environments, however, suggestthat it is time for Purchasing organizations to evolve furtherto the Lowest Risk Assessed Cost model if they are to procuregoods that provide the risk-balanced lowest total cost to the firm.I will address these specific points:• y The evolution from purchasing at the lowest pieceprice to procuring at the Lowest Risk Assessed Cost• y The shortcomings of buying using the Total DeliveredCost and Lowest Sustainable Cost approaches• y The components and benefits of the Lowest RiskAssessed Cost model• y Attendees will receive a Lowest Risk Assessed Costmodel to put to immediate use.BIO: John W. Henke, Jr. serves on the marketing faculty of theSchool of Business Administration at Oakland University inRochester, Michigan. Prior to joining the academic community,he held sales and marketing management positions during a 15-year period with several firms, including the IBM Corporation,Data Processing Division, and the Automotive Division ofGeneral Automation. He has continued his association withthe business world as President of Planning Perspectives, amanagement consulting firm specializing in buyer-supplierworking relations. In this capacity, he has worked withnumerous organizations, including the American PlasticsCouncil, ArvinMeritor, Boeing, BP plc, Chrysler, Cisco Systems,Delphi, Flextronics, Ford, GE Healthcare, General Motors, HiltiCorporation, Holcim, Honda, Lubrizol, Mars, Nissan, PACCAR,PSCU Financial Services, Rolls-Royce plc, Royal Numico N.V.,Toyota, US Air Force Materiel Command and Visteon.Prof. Henke has given numerous presentations in the U.S.,Europe and Japan on business-to-business marketing andsupplier working relations topics. He has been published ina variety of journals, including the Sloan Management Review,Marketing Letters, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal ofPage 162010