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Howe School Alliance for Technology Management (HSATM)MissionThe Howe School Alliance for Technology Management (HSATM) is a collaboration between business and academia that helps its partner organizations to better manage technology for strategic advantage. It does this by transferring best practices through seminars, conferences, roundtable meetings, and publications. Corporate partners have the opportunity to exchange ideas in a collegial environment with faculty and with a network of people in other organizations dealing with similar issues. [Click here for more details about HSATM member benefits]
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Seventeenth Annual Conference
HOWE SCHOOL ALLIANCE FOR TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
Managing Risk and Uncertainty in Pursuit of Innovation
Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 8:45 – 4:45
The tension that exists between innovation and uncertainty has long been recognized. We could live in a safer world, but who would want to achieve it by abandoning innovation? The seventeenth annual HSATM Conference is devoted to the ways that organizations can achieve innovation while managing and minimizing the associated risks. Five distinguished experts will share their views and experiences:
Click here to download flyer with detailed information. For more information: http://howe.stevens.edu/pages/hsatm-conference/ Howe School Alliance Roundtable MeetingApril 30, 2008
The Challenge of Organizational Change in Pursuit of Innovation: IIIt is not necessary to have attended the February 13 Roundtable meeting in order to benefit from the April meeting. If there is sufficient interest, this Roundtable meeting will be preceded, from 9:30-12:00 the same morning, by a reprise of the February 13 Roundtable (see below). Click here for more information on the April 30 Roundtable Meeting.
HSATM Partner wins 2007 Malcolm Balridge Award
What is the Howe School Alliance for Technology Management?The Alliance has its roots in the Stevens Alliance for Technology Management (SATM), founded in 1991. SATM played a critical role in the establishment of the Howe School of Technology Management and, through its educational programs, its research, and its effective transfer of management practices, has helped numerous organizations and has contributed to the professional development of many hundreds of technology professionals and executives.
Current Alliance Partners are Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Bilcare, IMI PLC, Infineum USA, ISO, Government Systems Technologies, Lucent Technologies, Stryker Orthopaedics, Teknor Apex, US Army Research, Development, and Engineering Center, and US Navy Strategic Systems Program. Past Partners have included AlliedSignal, Bellcore, Engelhard Industries, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, GTech, IBM, Merck, Pershing, and SIAC. How does the Alliance carry out its mission?The Alliance fulfills its mission by conducting conferences, roundtable forums, and seminars, and by sponsoring research, on all aspects of the management of technology.
The Executive Master's in Technology Management Program at Stevens, developed through the HSATM education initiative, has educated 800 graduates to date, and was the first graduate program in the nation to be awarded the Academic Leadership Award of the American Society of Engineering Management.
The topics dealt with by the Alliance in its conferences and forums over the past fifteen years embrace many of the major issues confronting technology-intensive organizations, since they are all selected by the HSATM Partner organizations based on relevancy to current needs. The issues are, clearly, broad and complex, and have been subjects of numerous books and countless studies over the years. Still, progress continues to be made, and the Alliance has brought new tools and uncovered fresh approaches to the more effective management and utilization of technology. Most importantly, it has facilitated the sharing of learnings and best practices among its Sponsors.
Over 70 Roundtable Meetings have been conducted to date. Among the subjects discussed have been metrics for measuring R&D effectiveness, achieving effective multidisciplinary teaming, using nontraditional reward systems, technology strategic planning, R&D portfolio balancing, business process re-engineering, motivating innovation, the "fuzzy front end" of the innovation process, how to "kill" a project, maintaining critical competencies, knowledge management, achieving breakthrough products, and many others. These meetings have proven to be very effective vehicles for the informal sharing of information among Sponsors on timely issues relating to the more effective management and utilization of technology.
Sixteen annual Conferences have been held, on such issues as R&D metrics, project selection, the new paradigm in R&D, new product team performance, processes for product conception, project management, achieving radical innovation, intellectual property management, portfolio management, and business process re-design. Conference keynote speakers have included such prominent authorities as Mary Good, former Undersecretary of Commerce for Science and Technology, John Mayo, former president of Bell Laboratories, Laurence Prusak, Executive Director of the Institute for Knowledge Management, Robert Cooper of "Stage-Gate" process fame, and Martin Stankard, President of the Productivity Development Group.
The Alliance has conducted an acclaimed research study on innovation that identifies behaviors and management practices for improving the process of idea generation and use.
Over a dozen research projects undertaken by the faculty of the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management have benefited from grants contributed by the Alliance, as well as from data inputs by Alliance Sponsors.
The Alliance Newsletter, Current Issues in Technology Management, keeps our growing constituency better informed about issues that impact upon the management and utilization of technology. Past issues can be accessed from this site. Download Articles from HSATM Newsletters
For over fifteen years, the Alliance has shown itself to be a uniquely effective mechanism by which companies can leverage their technology development and utilization processes. Through its educational programs, its research, and its transfer of management practices among organizations, the Alliance has contributed to the development and transfer of a large body of intellectual property, and has benefited many people and their organizations. We welcome inquiries about participation from any organization interested in improving its technology management practices to achieve competitive advantage.
For further information, contact:
Dr. Lawrence Gastwirt, Director
Phone: (212) 794-3637
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