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Seminar in Operations Management posted by duggu on 1/3/2008

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A bibliography of books that address various aspects of operations management and a list of student project topics are available.

Course Description

This seminar will explore the purposes and development of Technology Roadmaps for systematically mapping out possible development paths for various technological domains and the industries that build on them. Data of importance for such roadmaps include rates of innovation, key bottlenecks, physical limitations, improvement trendlines, corporate intent, and value chain and industry evolutionary paths. The course will build on ongoing work on the MIT Communications Technology Roadmap project, but will explore other domains selected from Nanotechnology, Bio-informatics, Geno/Proteino/Celleomics, Neurotechnology, Imaging & Diagnostics, etc. Thesis and Special Project opportunities will be offered.

Syllabus

Summary

Technology Roadmapping (TRM for short) is a 9 unit Fall Semester 2002 Masters Research Seminar on exploring long-term industry dynamics of emerging technologies. Students perform original work crafting or enhancing a Roadmap in a technology-business domain of their choice. Thesis & Special Project opportunities are offered & encouraged.

Seminar Description

Data of importance for such Roadmaps include rates of innovation, key bottlenecks, physical limitations, improvement trendlines, corporate intent, and value-chain and industry evolutionary paths.

The course will build on ongoing work on the MIT Communications Technology Roadmap project, and begin exploring other domains as well. Towards this end, we will have faculty guest speakers – mostly lab directors drawn from a spectrum of research centers at MIT – each of whom will share their long-term perspective on their fields and what they perceive to be open and compelling directions for future effort.

Caveat

It's crucial that all participating students realize this is a Research Seminar, meaning that all participants must perform original (and hard) work. You should be doing this because you think this sort of in-depth research is highly aligned with your professional interests and aspirations. For example, research you will perform for this Seminar will be an excellent entrée to CTOs, key people in companies in your industry of choice, and so forth. We, in turn, will be offering sometimes half-baked & even preliminary ideas, sharing lessons-learned along the way, figuring things out as we go, and generally investing a lot of time and braincycles into really understanding what Technology Roadmapping could and should be.

Seminar Goals

We hope to foster collaborative efforts between 1-3 students, MIT researchers, & Industry Sponsors, cutting across MIT research areas. Furthermore, we hope this includes Cross Industry Benchmarking, ideally in partnership with Industrial Sponsors of current and potential research at MIT. We'd like to develop an "MIT Method" of Roadmapping which integrates Technology AND Business Dynamics. Ideally, we attract students passionate about the technology sector - however broadly or narrowly defined - who are committed to producing a coherent & complete Tech Roadmap (Draft 1.0) during the Fall Semester.

Our overall TRM aspiration is to build up a rich and thriving MIT Technology Roadmapping Initiative, one which integrates many currently disparate or fragmented research veins.

Elements of the MIT Technology Roadmapping Initiative

Business Cycle Dynamics - e.g. systems dynamics-like models of the bullwhip effect
Industry Structure Dynamics - e.g. the double helix in Clockspeed
Corporate Strategy Dynamics - e.g. S-curves & dynamic analyses of players in the value chain
Technology Dynamics - e.g. the Semiconductor Industry Association's roadmap built around Moore's law
Regulatory Policy Dynamics - e.g. Cross-National, Cross-Sector

Purpose of Roadmapping

Tech Roadmapping allows for a technology-and-Industry-level of observation & analysis. Ideally the effort encourages Broad faculty participation, drawn from Multi-Disciplinary parts of the Institute, so as to cover the Emerging Technology spectrum and assessment of Business Implications of Technology trends. If done well, this offers a unifying, big-picture perspective, and a long-term "futurecasting" view. Furthermore, we are neutral-ground for discussion among industry players & MIT research sponsors.

Possible Benefits of TRM

We closely observe Value Chain Evolution over time
Language for discussion between business & technology world
Structured basis for interaction Cross Value Chains, between academia & industry, spanning basic research through application
Bridging between vertical "silos" of research - e.g. MicroPhotonics / LIDS / Media Lab / eBiz Center
Publishing Collaborative Tech Roadmaps
Risk goes down, Capital Investment goes up (generally)

Technology Roadmapping Essentials

Performance indicators
Innovations over time, trendlines
Physical limitations
Value Chains
Industry Structure

Examples of Degrees of Technology Aggregation

Communications Roadmap
- Optical Communications
  - MicroPhotonics
- Wireless
  - Personal Area Networking
  - Cellular G3, G4, G5
Medical Imaging
- MRI
  - Functional MRI
Nanotechnology
- Precision Engineering
  - AFM
Biological Engineering
- Bacterial Robotic

Enrollment & Expectations

Open to truly dedicated students who commit to active attendance, the readings, the necessary independent research, & crafting a high-quality Technology Roadmap in your technology domain of choice.

Grading

Students are graded 20% based on class participation & attendance, 15% on progress report presentations & documentation, 45% on the quality & content of the final TRM presentation & documentation, 5% for adding novel reference material to our library of links and TRM documentation, and 15% discretionary for demonstrably helping classmates improve their roadmapping abilities, sharing lessons-learned, and generally going "above & beyond."

Teamwork

We allow students to work either alone or in teams of 2 or 3 consisting of people of their own choice. For grading purposes, teamwork will be judged per-capita, with special effort made to assess individual contribution within the team. We will not tolerate free-riders in this seminar; everyone must be a full contributor.

Calendar


LEC #	TOPICS	SPEAKER	KEY DATES


1	Introduction	Charles Fine	Student email top 3-5 tech sectors of interest & mini-bio


2	TeleCom'n Roadmap	Charles Fine


3	Student Presentations		Students present MiniMaps


4	Neuro/Medical Imaging	Bruce Rosen, Sorensen


5	Sloan 50th Panel	Bob Brown, Rod Brooks, Lundquist, et al


6	CO₂ Sequestration / Environmental	Jacoby, Herzog, McFarland


7	MEMS Devices & Economics of Manufacturing	Marty Schmidt


8	Student Presentations


9	Conference	TBD	Participating in Telecom TRM Conference


10	Aerospace	Bozdogan


11	Biological Engineering	Doug Lauffenberger


12	Student Presentations		Complete TRM Finale!

Readings

Below is a bibliography of books that address various aspects of operations management.

Fine, Charles H. Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage. Perseus Books, 1998.

Hayes, Robert H., Gary P. Pisano, and David M. Upton. Strategic Operations: Competing through Capabilities. Harvard Business School, 1996.

Etienne-Hamilton, E. C. Operations Strategies for Competitive Advantage: Text and Cases. Dryden Press, 1994.

Irwin, Richard D. Manufacturing Strategy: Text and Cases. Terry Hill, 1994.

Pine II, B. Joseph. Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition. Harvard Business School Press, 1993.

Garvin, David A. Operations Strategy: Text and Cases. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1992.

Womack, James P., Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos. The Machine that Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production. Rawson Associates, 1990.

Klein, Janice A. Revitalizing Manufacturing: Text and Cases. Irwin, 1990.

Dertouzos, Michael L., Richard K. Lester, and Robert M. Solow. Made In America: Regaining the Productive Edge. MIT Press, 1989.

Hayes, Robert H., Steven C. Wheelwright, and Kim B. Clark. Dynamic Manufacturing: Creating the Learning Organization. The Free Press, 1988.

Cohen, Stephen S., and John Zysman. Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of the Post-Industrial Economy. Basic Books, 1987.

Webliography:

MIT Roadmapping-Related Links

MIT Emerging Technology Matrix

http://web.media.mit.edu/~davet/notes/emerging-tech-mit.html
MicroPhotonics Center Roadmapping Effort

http://mph-roadmap.mit.edu
Example TRM Theses

http://mitsloan.mit.edu/research/clockspeed/main.html

Other Roadmapping Efforts

ITRS - International Technology Roadmapping for Semiconductors

http://public.itrs.net/
ITRS 2001 Executive Summary Report

http://public.itrs.net/Files/2001ITRS/
Intel's Perspective on the ITRS

http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/itroadmap.htm
Aerospace Tango Projec

http://www.tangoecproject.com/
Electricity Technology Roadmap

http://www.epri.com
Lighting Technology Roadmap

http://www.eren.doe.gov/buildings/vision2020/
Robotics & Intelligent Machines RM

http://www.sandia.gov/Roadmap/home.htm
Compound Semiconductor

http://www.compoundsemi.com/documents/view/ctsprofile.php3?company=ncsr
Computational Chemistry RM

http://www.ccrhq.org/vision/index/roadmaps/

Technology Seminar Series, Lectures, and Conferences

General

All MIT Research Centers & Labs

http://web.mit.edu/research/index.html
ILP's Conference Series on Technology & the Corporation

http://ilp.mit.edu/ilp/Conferences/Current.html
Past Conferences (and Proceedings)

http://ilp.mit.edu/ilp/Conferences/Past.html
ILP's CTO Lecture Series

http://ilp.mit.edu/ilp/Conferences/CTO.html
ILP's Industry Leader Lecture Series

http://ilp.mit.edu/ilp/Conferences/Industry.html
General MIT Events

http://events.mit.edu

Specific

MicroPhotonics Center Seminars

http://mphotonics.mit.edu/events/index.php
Lab for Energy & the Environment Calendar

http://lfee.mit.edu/metadot/index.pl?id=2168&isa=Category&op=show
AI Lab Talks & Seminars

http://www.ai.mit.edu/events/talks/talks.shtml
LCS Calendar of Events

http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php
MTL VLSI Seminar Series

http://www-mtl.mit.edu/news/seminars/index.html
McGovern Institute for Brain Research

http://web.mit.edu/mcgovern/html/Events_and_Seminars/events_and_seminars.shtml

Possible Tech Roadmapping Technology Domains include, but are not limited to:

Established

Semiconductors

Photonics

Genomics / Proteomics / Celleomics
Wireless
MEMS
Smart Materials
Cyrogenics

Emerging

Soft Lithography
Neurotechnology
Nanotechnology
Organotechnology
Biological Engineering
Gerontechnology
Autonomous Systems

Why You Should Be Interested in Technology Roadmaps for Compound Semiconductors

http://www.eeel.nist.gov/812/itrcs.html

A Call to Action – A national Technology Roadmap for Telecommunications

http://www.tfi.com/pubs/ntq/articles/view/95Q3_A6.html

The Intel Lithography roadmap

http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/archive/2002.htm

Probert, David and Noordin Shehabuddeen. Technology Road Mapping: The Issues of Managing Technology Change. Int. J. Technology Management 17, 1999.

Technology Planning for Business Competitiveness: A Guide to Developing Technology Roadmaps. Commonwealth of Australia, August 2001.

Phaal, R., C. J. P. Farrukh, and D. R. Robert. Fast-Start Technology Roadmapping. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Robotics and Intelligent Machines Roadmap. Executive Summary, October 1998.

Useful References. Centre of Technology Management, University of Cambridge.

Çetindamar, Dilek, and Clare Farrukh. Technology Foresight & Strategic Planning: Future Technologies Workshop. Sabanci University, Cambridge University.

EM Science and Technology Roadmapping (Draft B).