Tricia Sutton
The Motorola Story:
A Tale of Resource Planning Deployment and Maturation
This is a resource planning tale of the past two years as told by a panel of key players from Motorola, who will outline the business situation, the transitional process and major benefits that emerged from a software and process deployment. Highlights will include the capability for resource managers to experiment with “What If” scenarios that help forecast demand changes associated with resources, costs and time. The panel will also cover how mid-course GO/NO GO project decisions are now made more productively because of the pairing of formal resource planning information with data from Engineering and Finance. “Gee Whiz” statistics will be revealed surrounding the ability to complete former MS Excel spreadsheet tasks that took weeks, and now take only 5-10 minutes. Finally, the panel will describe how Motorola moved the process across the division, and how the process has transformed to meet the needs of 2009. The key player panel members are Mary Cohn of Motorola, Scott Howard, Motorola (frm), and Rodger Howell of PRTM, consultant to Motorola. Tricia Sutter, CEO of Sutter Enterprises, will be the moderator.
Ms. Sutton, founder of Sutton Enterprises Inc., is an accomplished, highly motivated, innovative leader and manager with diverse expertise in New Product Development, Lean Enterprise, Program and Project Management, Business Process & Program Design, Value Stream Management, and Visual Knowledge. She applies Lean and Agile principles to projects, portfolios, and operations, rapidly delivering compact solutions for the top business and customer priorities. Ms. Sutton has received two women in business awards: the Women of Achievement Award in the Professional category by the YWCA of Lake County and the LUCI Award (Leading Us in Commerce and Industry) Women in Business Award in Manufacturing/Corporate. She also holds certifications as a Project Management Professional (PMP®) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and a New Product Development Professional (NPDP) from the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA). Ms. Sutton has authored and co-authored several articles and is an active volunteer in professional associations, including PDMA AME, and SME.
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