2009 Resource Planning Summit

Why Should You Attend?

Companies, where "time-to-market" and competitive threats are crucial, are not armed to protect key skills in economic downturns, or advise management on which skills to hire in good times
Portfolio Managers are not able to forecast, with accuracy, capacity requirements across the enterprise six to eight quarters out
Product Developers, Resource Planners and IT managers cannot gain traction for their recommendations without credible supporting evidence
Product Development Directors have no good options to their current manual spreadsheet operations

Learn how to bring products to market successfully from VP of IDEXX, a $1B medical instrument company
Learn from Medtronic how they integrated PDW, COGNOS and SAP
Hear the Lessons Learned about getting started in resource demand and supply planning from the Director of SAP operations at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
Examine with awe the achievement at a large biotech firm of FY roll up going from 2-3 weeks to one day, and the ability to now forecast resource requirements 6 years out
See first hand how an IT Director of a 300-bed hospital uses the PDW tool as a powerful communication device with stakeholders
Listen to a Global Portfolio Manager at Motorola discuss how her operation pairs the financial department view with engineers in order to make project decisions
Be amazed at your ability to make personal transformational leadership changes through the presentations on Emotional Intelligence (EI)