— Product development, process, writing

Speaker: Carl Angotti, Angotti Product Development
Meeting Date: Thursday, February 14, 2013
Time: 6:00 PM: Registration & Informal Networking, 6:30 PM: Management Forum, 7:15 PM: Dinner, 7:45 PM: After Dinner Presentation, 9:00 PM: Adjourn
Location: RAMADA Silicon Valley, 1217 Wildwood Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Management Forum / Guided Networking: There will be Formal Networking at 6:30 PM focused on the attendee’s experience.

Summary:
Every product organization has either a written, or an unwritten, New Product Development (NPD)process. Almost every one of these can be at least incrementally improved with a tune up. Sometimes, the process needs a radical change to improve efficiency or productivity. This presentation focuses on this improvement process starting from the top down.

Your NPD process can be reviewed via a checklist to see if it might be in need of a tune up by going tohttp://www.angotti.com/checklist.html and looking at the telltale signs that it might be improved. The presentation will cover how the process works, and how an organization might engage in a process to improve it.

In general, it will review:

1. The NPD Process from the Top Down
2. The Business Solution to Process Improvement
– State the problem to be solved, and how to pick the ones worth working on.
– Listing the potential solutions to the changes that can potentially improve the process
– How to pick the “Best” Solution to Implement
3. Examples from Personal Experience

Bio:
Carl Angotti, President of Angotti Product Development, has been involved with developing complex high tech new products in many industries and various sized organizations from startups through to very large organizations. His career started in Aerospace, then moved on to Instrumentation, then consulting in Telecom, Consumer, Industrial, Semiconductor Processing, Test Equipment and Medical product developments. He has served as a team member, and Project Manager in all of these areas. He has been observing how New Product Development has worked out, or failed to work out.

Mr. Angotti holds a BSEE from Carnegie-Mellon University, an MSEE from University of Southern California  and MBA from San Jose State University. He has been consulting in NPD for more than 30 years here in Silicon Valley. You can check out his website at http://www.angotti.com . He is a member of the IEEE TMC, PATCA (Professional and Technical Consultants Association) and the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Silicon Valley.