The New England executive management roundtable for development leaders

Welcome to the Engineering Executive Forum

The Engineering Executive Forum is an invitation-only peer group of senior development managers from the New England area.

The group meets one evening a month on the campus of a local college to share experiences on topics of professional interest, compare notes, and explore new ideas. Members exchange a wealth of best practices and problem solving experience. When appropriate, the Forum invites subject matter experts to facilitate discussions on special topics.

Now in its 6th year, there are no membership fees and meeting attendance is solely based on member interest in the agenda topics.

Forum membership is limited to seasoned executives with development, marketing, or operational responsibility that compliment the makeup of the current roster. Meeting attendance is on a reservation basis and is restricted to ensure attendees feel free to discuss issues in a frank and open manner.

If you think you qualify and would enjoy participating, contact us. We would love to welcome you.

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The slides from June's meeting on Enterpise Security are now available.

Next Meeting

Tuesday July 28, 2009
6:30 - 9:30

Organizing Product Mgmt for Innovation

Innovation is fraught with peril as evidenced by a steady stream of failed launches, missed opportunities and overruns. Many painful experiences can be traced to mental maps that were out of sync with internal and external realities. A principal called successive approximation can be employed to avoid some of these issues.

This session will introduce techniques that allow management to create accurate mental models that allow;

better market identification
clarity on unique customer value
better risk management

Guest speaker:

Pat Casey is the principal of SP Insight, a business development consultancy. Before founding SPI in 2002, Pat held senior mgmt positions at numerous start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.

Pat holds a BS in Math from Bates and an MS in Applied Economics from MIT' Sloan School of Management.

Have a challenging management problem?

The Forum membership provides no-cost consultative services to companies and individuals. To email us, click here.

Have a topic you'd like to present?

Submit a topic proposal. The Forum provides no cost advisory board services and unvarnished feedback on a wide range of technology topics. Click here.