| GOLD Online Seminars in 2009 |
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| Written by Gerald Anleitner | |
| Wednesday, 21 January 2009 | |
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Dear IEEE members, You are invited to attend the series of three webinars listed below. The first one is to be held this Saturday, 24 January, 2009. Please invite any other IEEE members as well, and feel free to distribute this through your GOLD Affinity Group mailing lists. Best wishes, Adrian Pais 2009 MGA GOLD Committee Chair To: IEEE GOLD and Student members === IEEE GOLD Sponsored Webinars for 2009 Helping engineers get through the business landscape, work together in creating new products and contribute in a business or commercial role is what this series of three webinars is offering. Each session will be scheduled for one hour and is offered at no charge. Our speaker, Arun Gopalakrishnan,, is a Market Manager for the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. The sessions are outlined below with the first two session dates confirmed. Seminar 1: Saturday, 24 January 2009, 8:00am Eastern. Topic: "Navigating a globalized, turbulent business landscape – what engineers need to know". Concepts covered in this session will include: * Cost of Capital and how this drives business decision making * New Product Portfolios and how projects get selected and killed * Global competition and shortening product life cycles * Drivers of outsourcing in support services, manufacturing facilities and even research and development Registration is open for the first session scheduled for Saturday, 24 January 2009 at 8:00am Eastern for one hour. Please register at http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://icm3.ieee.org%2Feventmanager%2FOnlineRegistration.asp%3Feventcode%3D1kx . Seminar 2: Saturday, 28 February 2009, 8:00am Eastern. Topic: "How engineers and marketers work together to create new products in innovative companies". Concepts covered in this session will include: * Best-in-class new product development processes * Identifying true unmet customer needs with high value potential * How to foster cross-functional collaboration between technical and marketing processionals * Examples of successful product launches and critical success factors Seminar 3: Saturday, March 2009, 8:00am Eastern. Topic: "Career change: how engineers can contribute in a business/commercial role for a technology company". Session will explore how people with engineering experience who also develop business skills can play key roles in technology companies where a combination of technical and commercial skills can be very effective. Biography: Arun Gopalakrishnan has worked for the DuPont Company as a Market Manager in Wilmington, Delaware since July 2006. Arun's first role at DuPont was providing marketing consulting to startup businesses within the company. He moved to his current role in DuPont's Performance Elastomers division in August 2007, where he sets the global strategy and drives revenue growth in the Energy, Oil & Gas business segment. Arun's areas of specialty include innovation processes, business development, and pricing and profitability management. |
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