Date

November 14, 2006
6:00pm – 8:30pm

Location

The Reuters Building
30th Floor Conference Center
3 Times Square
New York, NY 10036

Guest Speaker

Dr. Gene Slowinski
Managing Partner, Alliance Management Group (a PRTM Affiliate) and Director, Strategic Alliance Research, Rutgers University Graduate School of Management

Program Overview

Based upon Gene Slowinski’s new book Reinventing Corporate Growth, Dr.Slowinski will discuss how Open Innovation is transforming the nature of competition in industry. To compete effectively in today’s business environment, firms are using strategic alliances to link their resources with those of other world-class organizations. They are replacing the "not invented here" syndrome with the "invented anywhere approach". Unfortunately, many alliances still fail. Managers must deal with the complexities of cooperatively developing intellectual assets, linking decision-making structures and building cross-corporate innovation networks. Dr. Slowinski’s 25 years of work on over 300 technology-based alliances has allowed him to identify key best practices that all firms should use to insure healthy business models for corporate growth. He will present this set of simple, but powerful management tools and metrics that many firms  are now beginning to implement to increase the value of both their individual alliances as well as their entire alliance portfolios. 

What you will learn

• Implementing “Open Innovation” using the “Want, Find, Get, Manage” Model.
• Why the strategic planning process in most firms is broken and what you can do about it.
• How Open Innovation is changing the Project Portfolio management process
• Selected industry alliances (who is doing what to whom, and why)
• Tools, metrics, and management techniques for implementing “Open Innovation”
• What to do when an alliance is not meeting expectations

Speaker Biography

Gene Slowinski is the Director of Strategic Alliance Research at the Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University and Managing Partner of the Alliance Management Group, a consulting firm devoted to the formation and management of strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions. Prior to forming the Alliance Management Group, he held management positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Novartis Corporation. In addition to a Ph.D. in Management, Gene holds an MBA, and a Masters Degree in the sciences.  He is a member of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Technology Commercialization Advisory Board.

For the last 25 years Dr. Slowinski has consulted and conducted research on the formation and management of strategic alliances, joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions. His clients include GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Johnson & Johnson, Ethicon, ExxonMobil, General Mills, Eastman Chemical, Kraft, Becton Dickinson, and many other Fortune 500 firms.  An author and lecturer, Gene has presented his work to The Conference Board, The Licensing Executives Society, The Industrial Research Institute, and The American Electronics Association.  His articles on managing strategic alliances can be found in Business Horizons, Research*Technology Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Economic Development Quarterly, Les Nouvelles, Cooperative Strategies in International Business, The Journal of Advanced Management, and Managing the High Technology Firm.  With Matt Sagal, he co-authored the book The Strongest Link. His new book, Reinventing Corporate Growth is the leading book on growing the corporation.

Gene is active in the technology management community. He is a member of the Industrial Research Institute's Research-on-Research Committee, and the Technology Management Research Center at Rutgers University.  In addition, he is on the Board of Directors of Advanced Adjuvants LLC.

Contact

Peyton Kay, Chapter President
Peyton.Kay@Reuters.com
646-223-5085 

Cost

Free to ASAP Members

Registration

NOTE: Registered attendees will receive a signed copy of Reinventing Corporate Growth at the event!

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