Effective Management of Research and Development Teams and Organizations (Virtual Classroom)
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Managing the productivity and excellence of an R&D organization offers a unique set of problems and unusual challenges. This uniqueness arises from two basic facts: (1) the character of the enterprise, and (2) the highly-specialized, articulate, and autonomous people involved in R&D.
This course will explain how managing an R&D organization is largely the art of integrating the efforts of diverse, creative, intelligent, and independent individuals. It will offer a concise, yet effective, overview of the management issues and their solutions. The ideas presented in this course consist of the work of a multitude of experts and focuses on ways to improve the productivity of R&D. It is designed to bring the attendees to a stage where they can apply this information and to foster excellence and innovation in their R&D organization.
You Will Learn To
- Describe the innovation process in an effective R&D organization
- Identify the ingredients of successful technology transfer in an R&D atmosphere
- Contribute effectively to the management and leadership throughout the organization
- Explain how to make a smooth transition from a technical staff position to a management and leadership position
- Explain how to achieve optimal results from the R&D organization
Who Should Attend
Managers, supervisors, and team/group leaders, engineers, project managers, and other technical personnel; it is also beneficial for faculty members, department heads, research administrators, managers responsible for sponsoring research, and policy makers in science and technology.
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Bruce Chehroudi, Ph.D., has been an award-winning engineer/scientist/R&D Manager for nearly twenty years in several engineering and scientific disciplines such as automotive, aerospace, energy, environment, nanotechnology, and medicine.
He has worked in various capacities and leadership positions with some of the country’s leading corporations and institutions, including Raytheon STX, Ford, Air Force Research Laboratory, Princeton University, General Motors, and NASA. He has been a technical and R&D consultant for a number of organizations, such as Honda R&D, Honeywell, NASA, GE, Boeing, TRW, General Motors, Chrysler, Amgen, Stumberger, and GlaxoSmithKline. Dr. Chehroudi earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow (Princeton University), an MS in Mechanical Engineering (Southern Methodist University, Summa Cum Laude), and an MS in Economics and Management (Swiss Finance Institute, Magna Cum Laude).
Dr. Chehroudi has delivered over 200 presentations in technical/managerial meetings to corporate boards of directors, and to nontechnical audiences. He has covered or acted as a consultant on topics, such as strategic planning, technology transfer, ideation process, innovation, new product development (NPD), motivation, creativity, leadership, and R&D portfolio management. Dr. Chehroudi has more than 150 publications and patents, with extensive experience in both scientific and management areas and intensive training in finance and financial engineering.
Day 1
Introduction to organization and R&D funding in US and the world
R&D organizations and research classification
- What is Research and Development?
- Basic or applied research
- Unique issues in R&D management
Organizational structure and R&D
- Organizational variables
- Types of organization structures (advantages and disadvantages)
- Examples of different organization charts
- Technology, R&D, and organization chart
- Organization structure for innovation
Components required for an R&D organizations
- Staff, ideas, communication, funds, culture
- Match of a person and the job
Day 2
Creating an effective and productive R&D organizations
- Organization effectiveness
- Specific characters of inventors/innovators
- Management, researcher, and peer relationships
- Group/team formation
- Ethos of a scientific community
Motivation in R&D environment
- A human behavior model
- Reward system and its change to sustain and support scientific/technical careers
- Organizational structure for optimum communication
Leadership and issues in R&D organizations
- Leadership styles
- Leadership in R&D organizations: Mutual influence process
- A leadership style case study
Day 3
Technology transfer issues
- What is Technology?
- Technology Transfer stages
- Innovation
- Role of people and market
- Organizational issues in tech transfer
- Strategies
- A case study
Strategic planning for R&D organizations
- Strategy in the context of a corporation
- Technology strategy
- Strategic planning
- Strategic thinking and management
- An example of a strategic plan
New product development process
Processes associated with effective R&D Teams
- Leadership
- Team work
- Simultaneity
Strategic selection of R&D projects
Case study and discussion
Summary and conclusions
Note: There are many case studies throughout the seminar
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