Pre-Conference Tutorial | Thursday, June 24, 2004

Pre-Conference Tutorial Best Practices in Project Management:
An Off–Industry Perspective
This tutorial will highlight best practices in Project Management as practiced by General Electric and other global leaders in complex project management. We will explore the concepts of Process Excellence and Six Sigma Quality, and will analyze how these more rigid project management techniques can be highly effective within an R&D organization. As a group we will discuss and develop concrete ideas on how to apply these practices to a life science organization's research and development processes and will look for ways to leverage the best practices from our morning Tutorial's participants.

7:45 Pre-Conference Tutorial Registration and Morning Coffee

8:15 Flawless Execution in a Highly Complex Environment
• Managing and developing resources across a multi-year delivery process
• Delivering on-time within strict regulations and guidelines

9:00 Weaving Project Management Structure into a Creative World
• Balancing the view: "Creativity" is not anarchy . . . "Structure" is not prison
• Providing a flexible framework for delivering results

10:45 Morning Coffee Break

11:00 Introducing Modern Project Management Techniques into Existing Well-Run Processes
• Training cross-functional teams on best practices in project management
• Redesigning the development process from cover to cover
• Reducing design defects and the development cycle simultaneously

10:45 Panel: How Can Successful Project Management Processes Be Utilized By a Life Sciences Company?
(Stories and Q&A with Guest Panelists)

11:45 Close of Tutorial

Facilitator: Jay Freeland, President, Freeland Solutions, LLC (former President & Chief Operating Officer, Energy Controls Business, General Electric)
Jay Freeland is a strategy and management consultant serving clients of all sizes from multiple industries. Jay is a veteran GE executive with senior-leadership experience across the entire company, its customers and its suppliers. During his GE career, Jay held a broad mix of roles, including President & Chief Operating Officer for the Energy Controls business, Vice President of Global Sales, Marketing & Commercial Operations for the Rentals business, strategy leader for the $20 billion Power Systems division, Regional General Manager for Services Sales, and General Manager for Global Sales & Six Sigma Quality Initiatives. He is a certified Six Sigma Greenbelt. Jay also spent four years in consulting and audit leadership roles with GE's Corporate Audit Staff, served as a global mergers & acquisitions manager, and rotated through the company's finance bench in positions that stretched from Product Management to Planning & Analysis to General Accounting. Over the course of his professional life, Jay has worked in over 45 countries from every region of the world. He continues to list global travel and diverse interaction as one of the most enjoyable aspects of his work. Jay is uniquely skilled at working with matrixed organizations and processes of all sizes to identify tangible areas of improvement and delivering quantifiable results.