Partnering to succeed: Keys to managing technology development, risk and globalization

Abstract

The subject symposium on "Partnering to Succeed: Keys to Managing Technology Development, Risk and Globalization" is held under the sponsorship of Engineering and Technology Management (E&TM) Group at the 2001 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) with its congress highlight topic of "Progress Through Partnerships: Team Approaches for Today's Economy," following a success of the 2000 ASME IMECE E&TM Group Symposium on "Successfully Managing the Risk and Development of Your Business and Technology" with its congress highlight topic of "Beyond the Traditional Boundaries." The 2000 symposium counted over 500 attendees, increased by more than 2.5 times from about 200 attendees for all the sessions organized for IMECE 1999 by three divisions of the E&TM Group. The original proposal for these 2000 and 2001 IMECE symposia, shown in Appendix, was submitted to then E&TM Group Vice President Arnold Rothstein by the author at the Technology & Society (T&S) and Management Division Executive Committee and E&TM Group Operating Board meetings at IMECE 1999 in Nashville. E&TM Group Representative Kenneth Home and session track leaders were instrumental in carrying out these symposia, with the cooperation and support of Arnold Rothstein and his successor Jeff Rode, Division Chairs John Paul and Robert Burns (T&S), Steven Nichols (Management Division), and David Pyatt (Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis Division (SERAD)) and other members of the division executive committees and the group operating board. The current paper introduces key issues to be discussed at the subject "twenty-six session" symposium for ASME 2001 IMECE, with trends of our time and the originally proposed symposium concept taken into consideration.