SVPMA Monthly Event - Developing Winning Product & Service Portfolios w/ Walter Sun May 4, 2011

Organization: SVPMA - Silicon Valley Product Management Association
Topic: Developing Winning Product and Service Portfolios
Speaker: Walter Sun, Principal, PRTM
Date: Wednesday, May 4th
Time: 6:30pm - 9pm
Location: Network Meeting Center at the TechMart - 5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara
Cost: Free for Members. $30 for pre-registered Non-Members. $40 at the door
More info: http://www.svpma.org/meetings.html

Presentation:
Innovation as a basis of competition is widely acknowledged as a key enabler of business growth and profitability. While companies across industries focus on enhancing their capabilities and practices to develop more and better products/services faster, these improvements alone do not guarantee the creation of winning portfolios. A winning portfolio of products and services is one that optimizes every dollar invested and drives forward a company’s strategic objectives. Companies lacking an enterprise-wide view of their portfolio will not know whether they are fully leveraging and prioritizing resources for the greatest impact and value.

In this session, you will learn about best practices to manage your organization’s portfolio of products and services to make the very use of valuable, and increasingly scarce, resources.

About The Speaker:
Walter Sun is a Principal in the Services, Electronics & Software business group at PRTM, a global management consultancy. Walter has more than 16 years of industry and consulting experience helping global companies throughout the technology value chain drive operational improvements in the areas of product development, supply chain, and sales and marketing operations. Walter holds bachelor degrees in computer science and engineering from the University of Western Australia, and a MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.