ASME Feedback to Industry Advisory Board

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ASME Feedback to Industry Advisory
Board
Virgil CarterASME, Executive Director
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IAB Meeting onHow To Measure Innovation
October 3-4, 2006
Update on Related ASME Activities

• ASME established the Center for Engineering
  Entrepreneurship
• Innovation and developed several courses,
  including one on
• intrapreneurship that was piloted by Plug
  Power.
• ASME developed a partnership with APQC to
  support a survey on innovation, including
  measurement, and is exploring follow-up
  activities
• The Innovation Showcase was developed and will
  premier on November 9th at ASMEs
  International Mechanical Engineering Congress
  and Exposition in Seattle, WA.

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Innovation Showcase

• Supports engineering entrapreneurship through a
  competition on turning technology ideas into
  viable businesses
• A partnership with the National Collegiate
  Inventors and Innovation Alliance and Idea
  to Product Competition
• Sponsored by Boeing, IBM, Westingthouse and
  Intellectual Ventures
• 10 collegiate teams will compete in Seattle, WA.
• Potential to grow regionally, nationally, and
  internationally

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ASME Innovation Study

• Initiated to enhance enterprise wide innovation
• Researched current practices, processes and
  external benchmarks
• Produced key findings and five recommendations

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George Group Recommendations
RECOMMENDATION
DESCRIPTION
ASME needs the ability to innovate internally in
organizational processes and operations as well
as in external products, services and programs.
Training a core set of staff in formal process
improvement methods would provide a set of
practitioners who could identify and guide
internal process improvement
Develop Core Internal Expertise in Formal Process
Improvement Methods
A platform concept is a powerful way to
establish and align roles and responsibilities
with customer or market segments. Establishing
platform responsibilities would facilitate VOC,
ideation and project prioritization while
leveraging existing organization and functional
sectors
Implement a Platform Team Approach to Align with
Customer Segments
ASME would benefit from a more systematic
approach to collecting and documenting voice of
the customer (VOC) information. This approach
would define the sources of information,
frequency of collection, and responsibilities for
synthesizing and documenting results
Put in Place a Formal Voice of the Customer (VOC)
and Idea generation (Ideation) Process
Standard and regular approaches to prioritizing
investments and evaluating existing products,
services and programs are needed to identify the
mix of projects that creates the maximum value
for ASME and its customers. ASME can build on a
good foundation on the existing balanced
scorecard and past experience with AHP portfolio
reviews these need to be formalized and launched
Invigorate the Portfolio Planning and Lifecycle
Management Process
ASME should consider assigning specific
roles/responsibilities for identifying and
developing breakthrough innovation concepts (i.e.
those that do not fit the traditional ASME
product, service or business model) a skunk
works approach to testing ideas that otherwise
might not find an internal sponsor
Define/Clarify the Internal Responsibility for
Breakthrough Innovation
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IAB Meeting on Global Climate ChangePolicy
Decisions and Technology ChallengeApril 17-18,
2007
Update on Related ASME Activities

• Climate Change Task Force expected to issue
  paper in spring 2008
• Engaged in Founder Society meeting to explore
  engineering community collaboration on
  climate change (Princeton, June 2007)
• Considering needs for guidelines or standards,
  e.g., for measuring carbon footprint

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Global Summit on the Future of Mechanical
EngineeringApril 16-18, 2008, Washington, D.C.

• A forum for the global engineering community
  leaders to discuss trends and issues likely
  to shape mechanical engineering over the next
  20 years
• Articulate aspirations global vision for the
  future of mechanical engineering

IAB Participation

• As part of or in lieu of spring IAB Meeting?

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Thank you! Questions?
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IAB Recommendations on InnovationOctober 3-4,
2006

• ASME Should ConsiderCreating a training
  program around innovation within industry. Such
  a program should focus on how companies should
  address innovation and how to facilitate
  innovation.Being involved in and influencing
  the innovation measurement dialogue.Ensuring a
  sustainable output of engineering graduates.
  Possible solutions are to put on workshops
  linking engineering and innovation and trying to
  change the public perception of the engineering
  field to attract more into the discipline.

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IAB Recommendations on Climate Change April
17-18, 2007

• ASME Should ConsiderDeveloping educational
  materials about energy and greenhouse gases for
  the general public and public officialsDiscussing
  ways to partner with universities to create
  climate change-related curriculum Creating a
  critical risk assessment tool about climate
  change across a spectrum of industriesMaking
  recommendations about the appropriate use of
  federal RD funding of low-carbon energy
  technologiesLeveraging ties to ASME members in
  other countries to provide dialogue with partners
  outside of the U.S.Creating innovation index for
  the energy industryCreating a Technology
  Readiness Assessment for energy
  technologiesEstablishing a climate change
  related student design competition