Assessing and Managing Risks of Product Portfolios
from Product Development & Management Association - New England Chapter
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Thursday, May 22, 2008, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
The objective of this talk is to outline the key elements of risk assessment and management within the context of product portfolio management by extending the standard investment portfolio management framework and answering the following questions:
- How to tie Risk Assessments to Portfolio Prioritization?
- Risk vs. Reward or Return, Balance, and Strategy Alignment?
- Is there an 'Efficient Frontier' for New Product Portfolios?
- What are appropriate Measures of Risk?
- How to integrate Risk Assessments for Portfolio and Project Management?
About the Speaker
Ruedi Klein has been involved in new product development for over a decade. Currently, he is a Product Manager at Alcatel-Lucent, responsible for the market introduction of a portfolio of distributed mobile base transceiver stations. In his past role as Product Portfolio Manager at Lucent Technologies he evaluated new product project proposals and provided recommendations covering resource allocation, pricing, and risk management. Ruedi is an Adjunct Professor at Montclair State University's Business School. He joined Lucent Technologies in 1997 as a process consultant in Bell Laboratories focusing on improving product development practices and shortening product development intervals in the business units. Previously at Matsushita Electric Works in Osaka, Japan, Ruedi researched modulation and coding schemes for mobile communication systems and wireless LANs using system level simulation tools. He holds a Diplom Ingenieur degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology Aachen, Germany, and an MBA from Cornell University. Ruedi is a member of IEEE, PMI, and VDI (Society of German Engineers). He is currently the Vice President for Chapter Development for PDMA, responsible for PDMA's twenty-three North American chapters. Ruedi is a certified New Product Development Professional (NPDP) since 2001 and a Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2007.
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