The alumni conference was an outstanding event. The talks were informative and thought-provoking, and it was a great experience to see all of you. We look forward to next year's meeting in Boston and to link this with our 20th anniversary. And the t-shirts were great!
A major focus at LFM now is internships. Second years are in the later stages of their projects, and we are preparing for the matching of first years. We have several off-cycle internships, and we expect that off-cycle internships will become a more significant part of our cycle. One of our off-cycle internships is at Zara, the Spanish apparel producer, distributor and retailer, whose application for membership was approved by our board in October.
We are also preparing for the plant tour in January and the international tour in March, which we expect to be in China and include activities with the newly launched China LFM program.
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The Leaders for Manufacturing Alumni Council is conducting the 2007 LFM Alumni Career Trajectory Survey. The survey is ready for you to take. Our estimates say it will take you about 15 minutes to fill out. You can return at a later time by clicking on the link again from the same computer.
Please click the link below to beginning the survey. The information we will gather will provide the alumni with a solid understanding of the types of careers LFMs have, the amount of change they experience, and reasons why they make decisions to change. The goal of the information is to help alums in their life decisions.
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO BEGIN.
Alumni Council Meetings
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Topic: Alumni Council - November
Date: Friday, November 9, 2007
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The LFM Alumni Conference was held in Seattle October 11 and 12. More than 120 alumni attended making it one of the largest LFM alumni conferences to date. This year's conference featured a diverse agenda of speakers including many LFM alumni such as Jeff Wilke, Keith Jackson, Ginny Mahl, Steve Cook, and Sara Metcalf. Attendees visited local plants such as Boeing, Phillips Medical, Virginia Mason Hospital, McKinstry, Genie Lifts, and Kenworth Truck. Presentations are available online at on the Spotlight page. To read more about the event, click here.
Next year's LFM alumni conference will be held in Boston on October 16-17, 2008 and will celebrate LFM's 20th year anniversary. Organizers for this event are Yuliya Frenkel and Jeremy Wallach.
TopWe had an excellent session on October 19 with Professor Rebecca Henderson speaking about "Stuck! Why it can be hard to get things done, and what can be done about it." With well over 140 attendees, this was the largest web cast we've had since starting our alumni web casts. You can access this presentation and the audio by going to the past seminars page at--
https://lfmsdm.mit.edu/VCSS/web_seminars/past_webseminars.jsp
We are pleased to announce 2 upcoming seminars:
Kim Thompson: Appreciating the Value of Information in the Age of Risk Management– November 2
Jim Utterback: Design- Inspired Innovation - November 16
PLEASE SEE THE DETAILS AND REGISTRATION LINKS BELOW.
Kim Thompson – November 2, 2007
TIME: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Eastern / 9:00am – 10:00am Pacific
Title: Appreciating the Value of Information in the Age of Risk Management
Speaker Bio: Professor Thompson's research interests and teaching focus on the issues related to developing and applying quantitative methods for risk assessment and risk management, and consideration of the implications associated with including uncertainty, variability, and time in risk characterization. Drawing on a diverse background, she seeks to effectively integrate technological, social, political, legal, and economic issues into analyses that improve decisions. Professor Thompson works with a number of companies on strategy, risk management, and communication. Much of her work focuses on children. As Associate Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, she created and directs the Kids Risk Project, which aims to empower kids, parents, policy makers, and others to make better decisions when managing children's risks. This work builds on Professor Thompson's long-standing interest in the issues related to variability in risk, and the need to consider the potential risk tradeoffs associated with different policies and management strategies. Professor Thompson's work currently focuses heavily on dynamic modeling, particularly in the context of modeling policies for polio risk management after the success of global eradication, and she spent the past two academic years (2005-7) visiting and teaching System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Dealing with risk is part of life for every individual and enterprise. Managing risk well often makes the difference between success and failure, and this session will discuss key concepts that managers must deal with in this Age of Risk Management. Recognizing the important role of uncertainty in the context of making difficult choices, decision analysts offer tools to assist decision makers weigh choices, including the option of obtaining additional information prior to making a final decision. This session will demonstrate the importance of asking the questions: How might actions change if we obtain additional information, and is it worthwhile to invest in efforts to get more information prior to making a final choice?
REGISTRATION LINK:
https://sdmlfmmit.webex.com/sdmlfmmit/j.php?ED=92460102&RG=1
Jim Utterback– November 16 TH , 2007
TIME: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Eastern / 9:00am – 10:00am Pacific
Title: Design- Inspired Innovation
Description: What makes products? What roles do design firms play in creation and innovation, and makes this role change? What accounts for design firms' successes? How do the processes of innovation and design vary? Does a focus on design inspire innovation and enhance the possibility of competitive success? What strategies might result in more inspired design and innovation? Design-Inspired Innovation represents an attempt to answer these questions. He has also co-written a book by the same name. Go to the following link: http://www.worldscibooks.com/business/6052.html
Speaker: Jim Utterback is David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation and Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since receiving the Ph.D. in 1968 from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Prof. Utterback has held faculty positions at Indiana University, the Harvard Business School, and Chalmers Technical University as well as MIT. From 1983 through 1988, he served as Director of Industrial Liaison at MIT. His research has focused on the process of technological innovation in firms in the United States and in other countries. He is author of Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation, published by Harvard Business School Press in 1994 and of Design-Inspired Innovation, published by World Scientific Press in 2006. Recent publications include contributions to Management Science, Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal, Technological Forecasting and Social Changeand The Sloan Management Review.
Jim's teaching focus is on understanding the dynamics of product and process development, emerging and disruptive technologies, and the varied roles of firms as predators and prey when new technologies emerge. His current research focuses on the sustained growth of newly formed design and technology-based firms in the United States, Sweden, Italy and the United Kingdom.
Jim is one of the founding faculty of the Management of Technology Program (now called the Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership), which was the first area of study at MIT that awarded degrees jointly from the Schools of Management and Engineering. He is also one of the founders of the Leaders for Manufacturing Program, which awards dual degrees in engineering and in management and has recently helped develop a similar program in Biomedical Enterprise.
Jim received the D.Sc. (Hon) from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1997, and was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1999. He is currently a member of the Board of Governors of the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois, and was recently elected a Life Fellow of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge.
REGISTRATION LINK:
https://sdmlfmmit.webex.com/sdmlfmmit/j.php?ED=92304312&RG=1
New Seminars: Registration will be available soon. Follow this link to REGISTER for seminars. You will be sent an email with all the instructions. https://lfmsdm.mit.edu/VCSS/web_seminars/webseminars.jsp
Bookmark this page and keep checking back!
If you have another idea for a speaker, know a good speaker or would like to speak yourself, please send an email to Jon Griffith.
TopLFM Alums Hold 14th Annual Conference
http://lfm.mit.edu/?fileName=news_articles/lfm_alumni_conf07/lfm_alumni_conf07.html
Alums Explore Broad Scope of Systems at SDM Conference
http://sdm.mit.edu/index.php?fileName=news_articles/sdm_alumni_conf07/sdm_alumni_conf07.html
Sheffi named director of MIT's Engineering Systems Division
http://lfm.mit.edu/?fileName=news_articles/esd_sheffi/esd_sheffi.html
SDM Pulse Fall 2007, v2n3
http://sdm.mit.edu/docs/sdm_pulse_fall_2007.pdf
LFM '94 is GM of 2007 WSJ Top Small Biz Pick
http://lfm.mit.edu/?fileName=news_articles/reflexite/reflexite.html
LFM's Newest Cohort is off to a Strong Start
http://lfm.mit.edu/?fileName=news_articles/lfm_2009/lfm_2009.html
MIT, LFM Help Kick-off China LFM
http://lfm.mit.edu/?fileName=news_articles/clfm_opening/clfm_opening.html
McGraw-Hill publishes third edition of Simchi-Levi book
http://lfm.mit.edu/?fileName=news_articles/simchilevi_supplychain/simchilevi_supplychain.html
In Memoriam: Morgan Burke, LFM ‘92
http://lfm.mit.edu/?fileName=news_articles/lfm_burke/lfm_burke.html
Meet the Next Generation of China 's Manufacturing Leadership
http://lfm.mit.edu/?fileName=news_articles/clfm_students/clfm_students.html
MIT Professors Explore Manufacturing Issues with China's Future Manufacturing Leaders
http://lfm.mit.edu/?fileName=news_articles/clfm_leaders/clfm_leaders.html
LFM '08 Ilyssa Lu awarded "Miss Scholastic Achievement Award" in the 22nd Annual Miss Asian America Pageant
http://lfm.mit.edu/?fileName=news_articles/lu_pagent/lu_pagent.html
LFM '91 Pat Shanahan named program chief of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner program
http://lfm.mit.edu/?fileName=news_articles/shanahan/shanahan.html
Swiss Re's Centre for Global Dialogue: Dr. Joseph Coughlin on Technology and the Future of Aging
http://esd.mit.edu/HeadLine/swissre2007.pdf
Prof. Dava Newman on CNET – Designing a 21st-century space suit
http://www.news.com/QA-Designing-a-21st-century-space-suit/2009-11397_3-6211275.html
Prof. John Williams delivers keynote at Microsoft's ReMix '07
http://esd.mit.edu/HeadLine/williams101007.html
Annalisa Weigel honored with Henry B. Kane '24 Award
http://esd.mit.edu/HeadLine/weigel101007.html
Airspace where there's no room, Ideas to unclog skies over NYC divide the players (Prof. Hansman quoted in Boston.com)
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/10/12/airspace_where_theres_no_room/
ESD Ph.D. candidate on runner up team in MIT 100K Elevator Pitch Contest
http://esd.mit.edu/HeadLine/silver101707.html
TPP students featured in MIT Sloan S-Lab podcast
http://esd.mit.edu/HeadLine/tpp102107.html
Geeking Out at Amazon: Jeff Wilke, LFM '93
http://www.technologyreview.com/article/19543/
Outsmarting the Flu: ESD Professor Richard Larson
http://www.technologyreview.com/article/19554/
October 27- November 1, 2007
The 4th Annual Conference of MIT's Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC)
Title: Technology Enabled Education: A Catalyst for Positive Change
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan is the leading sponsor of this year's LINC conference, held in Amman Jordan. The focus is on sharing best practices in 'e-learning' in developing regions of the world and on using technology to support creative, compelling learning environments.
A follow-on Executive Session will be held in Dubai, U.A.E., October 31 - November 1, 2007, and is supported by His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Location: Amman, Jordan and Dubai, U.A.E.
Open to: MIT Community
Contact: lincinquiries@mit.edu
Details: Click here for more details.
November 1, 2007
At the Crossroads: Caregiving, Dementia and the Driving Decision
Sponsored by: MIT AgeLab, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, and the New England University Transportation Center
Please join us as distinguished guests present research on this important topic. This conference will serve as the public release of newly developed education materials for caregivers on this profoundly personal problem with public implications.
Time: 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Location: MIT Faculty Club
Contact: Paula Magliozzi
Details: Click here for more details.
November 2, 2007
LFM/SDM Web Seminar
Title: Appreciating the Value of Information in the Age of Risk Management
Speaker: Kimberly Thompson, Associate Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science, Department of Health Policy and Management, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Time: 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, 9:00 am Pacific
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Jon Griffith
Details: Click here for more details.
Register: Click here to register.
November 8, 2007
LFM/SDM Industry-Faculty Research Forum
Location: MIT Faculty Club
Sponsored by: MIT System Design and Management Program and MIT Leaders for Manufacturing Program
Open to: LFM and SDM industry partners, faculty and students
Contact: Jon Griffith
November 14, 2007
ESD Ph.D. Program's Fall Open House
Time: TBA
Location: E40 2nd floor
Contact/RSVP: esdgrad@mit.edu
Details: Click here for more details.
November 14, 2007
ESS Research Poster Session
The Engineering Systems Student Society (ESS) presents the ESD Ph.D. Students' research: a gallery-style event for the ESD Community and anyone else interested in what ESD is about.
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: E40 2nd Floor conference rooms
Open to: MIT community
Contact: Michael Hanowsky
Refreshments will be served.
November 16, 2007
LFM/SDM Web Seminar
Title: Design-Inspired Innovation
Speaker: James M. Utterback, David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation, Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT
Time: 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, 9:00 am Pacific
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Jon Griffith
Details: Click here for more details.
Register: Click here to register.
January 31, 2007–February 1, 2008
SDM-LFM Knowledge Review
Location: MIT
SAVE THE DATES!
March 11–12, 2008
2008 MIT Conference on Risk Management
Sponsored by: MIT Industrial Liaison Program, MIT System Design and
Management Program, MIT Leaders for Manufacturing Program, MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation
LFM Student Program site: http://lfm.mit.edu
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