Two-day Washington, DC event featured informative presentations from some of the world's foremost thought leaders in roadmapping
Irvine, California - December 20, 2004 - Alignent Software, the market leader in enterprise strategic product planning software, today announced the successful completion of its advanced roadmapping workshop it held in Washington, DC, December 16-17, 2004. The event - Getting 10x Value: How to Take Your Roadmapping Practice to the Next Level - featured presentations from product planning roadmapping experts from organisations with deep domain experience in new product technology development. Participating organisations included Boeing, NASA, the U.S. Navy, the Technology Forge, College of Southern Maryland, Penn State University and Whalen Management Group.
This two-day master class in roadmapping for new product planning featured an array of constructive topics, including:
- Using Roadmapping to Accelerate Product Development
- Integrating Suppliers Into a Roadmapping Practice
- Roadmapping & Portfolio Management: Keys to a Robust Strategic Planning Process
- Roadmapping and Enterprise Planning
- Roadmapping: The Gateway to Improved Strategic Planning
- And many more
"Product innovation is becoming an increasingly important aspect in new product development, and roadmapping has proven to be the crucial link to building product innovation into a sustainable process," says Dennis Clerke, CEO of Alignent Software. "It's rewarding to see that so many preeminent organisations have expressed interest in implementing roadmapping into their business practices and are looking to Alignent Software to assist them in the process."
Alignent Software is the creator of Vision Strategist, the first and only centralised product planning software that aligns product development plans with other business objectives across the enterprise to automate strategic planning and visualise alternatives for breakthrough product opportunities.
Due to strong interest in establishing a strategic product planning roadmapping practice, another advanced roadmapping workshop will be scheduled for mid-2005. For details, visit www.alignent.com .
About Alignent Software
Alignent Software, previously known as Strateva, is the established leader of enterprise strategic product planning solutions. The company helps its Fortune 500 clients improve time to market, eliminate redundant projects and improve efficiency by automating such planning practices as product roadmapping, portfolio selection and technology foresight with a database application of cross-functional planning information. For more information, visit www.alignent.com
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