Formerly the Chief Technologist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, John Saiz now collaborates with manufacturing and technology-intensive organisations worldwide to improve their innovative capabilities and transform ideas/concepts and technologies into successful products and services.
John has been working as an IfM Engage Industrial Associate since 2014 and has led collaborations with a number of multinational commercial organisations, industry consortia and academia including AstraZeneca, BioPhorum, FMC Technologies, GE Global Research, GE Oil & Gas, Halliburton, Oxiteno, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, OrthoWorx, Pfizer, Purdue University, Subsea 7, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Maine.
Areas of expertise include:
- Business strategy (strategic visioning, market segmentation, ecosystem and value mapping, scenario planning, strategic roadmapping).
- Innovation management (innovation culture, decision support tools & toolkits, open innovation, innovation KPIs, creativity methods, concept mapping/work breakdown structures).
- Technology management (stage gate project management, project/portfolio selection, make or buy, technology intelligence).
- Design management (design for assembly, modularisation, product platforming).
While at NASA, John directed a number of technology and flight development projects that included efforts spanning the full spectrum of technology readiness levels, from initial proof-of-concept laboratory demonstration through long-term spaceflight operations on the Space Shuttle, Russian Mir and International Space Station. He managed a portfolio of nearly 200 internal research and technology development activities during his time as CTO at the Johnson Space Center.
- Institute for Manufacturing
- 17 Charles Babbage Road
- Cambridge CB3 0FS
Research
- Artificial Intelligence
- Asset Management
- Business Model Innovation
- Computer Aided Manufacturing
- Decision-Making for Emerging Technologies
- Design Management
- Digital Manufacturing
- Distributed Information & Automation Laboratory
- Fluids in Advanced Manufacturing
- Healthcare
- Industrial Photonics
- Industrial Resilience
- Industrial Sustainability
- Inkjet Research
- Innovation and Intellectual Property
- International Manufacturing
- Manufacturing Industry Education Research
- NanoManufacturing
- Science, Technology & Innovation Policy
- Strategy and Performance
- Technology Enterprise
- Technology Management
- Service Alliance
- University Commercialisation and Innovation Policy Evidence Unit