Technology intelligence

Monitoring science and technology developments

One day workshop, Thursday 11 March 2010, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge

This event has been cancelled

• Are you aware of new technologies early enough?
• Are you missing out on opportunities to expand?
• Do you feel swamped with data but have little useful information?

Technology intelligence is the activity that enables companies to identify the technological opportunities and threats that could affect the future growth and survival of their business. It aims to capture and disseminate the technological information needed for strategic planning and decision making. As technology life cycles shorten and business becomes more globalised, having effective technology intelligence capabilities is becoming increasingly important. In particular, technology intelligence is an indispensable asset for technology-based companies.

The workshop

This workshop aims to disseminate results of research on technology intelligence. Attendees learn about the latest research findings and receive a copy of the technology intelligence workbook developed by the Centre for Technology Management.

Every year we select contributions from different types of companies, at different levels of TI implementation to present their personal experiences in setting up technology intelligence activities. From these case studies attendees can learn about the strategies, tools and techniques used by others, as well as the challenges inherent in tackling implementation and the tactical approaches used. This year there will be presentations from three different companies, including one example of how a technology intelligence activity was started in a multinational company.

There will be opportunities to network and exchange information both with researchers and with the other participants. Participants in previous years have formed links and communities of practice and remained in contact with the different activities and projects of the IfM.

Who should attend?

Technology managers, executive managers, directors and those who would benefit from a technology intelligence system. Technologists, gatekeepers and others who take an active part in the technology intelligence activity for their business.

Programme

• 9.30 workshop opens
  • Technology intelligence model
  • Industrial case studies
  • Technology intelligence toolbox
• 12.30 Lunch
• 13.30 Industrial case studies
  • Case studies
  • Implementation issues
  • Management Guide
• 16.30 Close

Industrial speakers

include:

Jennifer Brown has 15 years of experience as Director at Oakland, which specialises in business and technology intelligence. She has a BSc in Biochemistry and an MSc in Food Science from Leeds University. Jennifer joined Oakland in April 2001 from DuPont where she was a business process expert. At Oakland Jenny project directs market and technical intelligence projects for food, healthcare and personal care clients. She has been involved in numerous technology intelligence projects from operational to strategic.

Ruth Thomson of Cambridge Consultants has a unique mix of practical experience of technical intelligence tools and strategy from both the corporate end-user and the intermediary perspective. At Cambridge Consultants she works in business development for the consumer and security businesses. Until May 2009 Ruth was the Innovations Leader for Kodak European Research (KER) where she developed mechanisms by which external 'ideas' and technology leads from across Europe could be brought to Kodak’s attention.

Kelvin Pitman. Following a period as Director of Global Licensing, Kelvin has now taken on the exciting new role as Director of Open Innovation exploring how Crown Holdings can exploit this concept in a B2B situation.

He obtained an honours degree in Polymer and Chemical Technology in 1974 after which he joined Metal Box R&D where he progressed to Senior Scientist before taking on roles as Product Manager for beverage closures, then Commercial Office Manager covering plastic closures for food, pharmaceutical, automotive and household products followed by Market Development Manager for PET bottles and beverage closures at divisional level.

In 1988 he accepted a position of Licensing Manager for Crown Obrist, a subsidiary of Crown Holdings in Switzerland, expanding their production technology to Belgium, Germany and the USA. Subsequently he became Corporate Customers Manager before becoming Technical Director responsible for quality, R&D, production, customer technical service and purchasing. Following Crown's acquisition of Caurnaud Metalbox in 1996, Kelvin became Director of Global Closure Developments managing teams in the USA, UK and Switzerland.

IfM speakers

Dr Clive Kerr is a Research Associate at the Centre for Technology Management at the University of Cambridge. His current research interests are roadmapping, visual strategy, technology intelligence, technology insertion and through-life capability management. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was a Research Officer in Engineering Design at the Enterprise Integration department of Cranfield University. Clive has a First Class Honours degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, a Diploma degree in Economics, a Postgraduate Certificate in the Social Sciences and an Engineering Doctorate.

Dr Letizia Mortara joined the IfM's Centre for Technology Management as a Research Associate in 2005. Letizia has a first degree in Industrial Chemistry gained at the University of Bologna in Italy. After spending three years working as a process/product manager in a chemical company, she moved to the UK where she gained her PhD in processing and process scale-up of advanced ceramic materials at Cranfield University.

Executive education

IfM courses and workshops can be run as part of an executive education programme tailored to the specific needs of your business.

Course location

The workshop will be held at the Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, with easy access to the A14 and M11. Free car parking is available onsite. A map will be sent with confirmation of booking.

Cost

£460.00 per person + VAT, including lunch. An 'earlybird' fee of £399.00 plus VAT applies until one calendar month before each workshop.

A discount of 10% is offered to IfM Members.
For details of IfM membership see: http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/members.

A further 10% discount is available on the above prices if you book to attend two or more IfM workshops at the time of booking. See www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/ detailing other workshops.

Cancellations

Substitutions may be made at any time. Bookings cancelled less than 10 days prior to the event will be charged in full.

Booking

The workshop will be run twice in 2010

• Thursday 11 March
• Thursday 14 October

To book a place please complete and return the booking form

You will receive confirmation of receipt of your booking form by email, usually within 48 hours.  Final confirmation of your booking together with joining instructions, including maps etc, will be sent approximately one week before the start of the event, usually by email to the email address provided on your form.

Enquiries

To find out more, or to express interest in attending the course, contact Ella Davey:

Tel: +44 (0)1223 766141
Fax: +44 (0)1223 464217
Email: ifm-events@eng.cam.ac.uk