NY SPIN is pleased to welcome Jeff Bonar as a presenter. His topic: What is the Role of
Process in a Startup?
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| Topic: |
What is the Role of
Process in a Startup? |
| Presenter: | Jeff Bonar |
| Date: | May 23 2016 (MONDAY)
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| Time: | 5:30pm Networking; 6:00 Announcements & Presentation; 7:20 Raffle; 7:30 More networking |
| Location: | Wells Fargo Advisors |
*There will also be a brief presentation by Ronan Cox:
Avoiding Big Mistakes when Saving for Retirement.
Come for the information.
Come for the networking.
Come for the refreshments.
Come for the door prizes.
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Synopsis:
What is the Role of
Process in a Startup?
How and when is process improvement
useful in a tech startup? As the CEO of two mobile computing companies, Jeff
Bonar will discuss how process improvement has shaped the direction and
integration of two very different startup products — one focused on consumers
and one on enterprises. Process improvement has a role to play, but it’s not
the right solution for every problem.
What are the key issues and
processes that govern and enable any startup, and in particular have guided the
integration of two very different products and their divergent application of
technology?
The discussion will include:
- What is required for today’s
products (before you start improving)?
- Clients vs. users — what do they
care about?
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"Principled de-normalization"
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Fears and risks vs. technical
challenges
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How Agile applies to business
development and funding, not just product development (e.g., keep delivering
value and revenue at every step)
Biography:
Jeffrey Bonar has spent his entire
career at the cutting edge of commercializing advanced software technologies.
He combines strong business sense, visionary leadership, deep understanding of
technology, and passionate commitment to results. His emphasis has always been
on commercialization -- taking
raw technologies and finding practical and effective applications that generate
profitable businesses. His experience with commercialization of software
technology includes work with small startups, mid-sized companies, and Fortune
500 corporations in fields including mobile software, customer relationship
management, training, and software tools.
Jeff’s startups delivered software
and services to customers like Sun Microsystems, Xerox, American Airlines,
United Parcel Service, MCI, Fujitsu, Blue Cross of PA, Baxter Healthcare,
NYNEX, Ecolab, Time-Warner, HCA, and Canada Trust. At IBM he led the team
delivering IBM’s first commercial version of WebSphere, which has emerged as
the industry standard middleware web technology. Also at IBM, he drove the
adoption of Java as a replacement for proprietary IBM languages and tools.
In the 1980s Jeff was on the
Computer Science faculty at the University of Pittsburgh and led the
Intelligent Tutoring Systems group at the Learning Research and Development
Center. Even as an academic, he was focused on the delivery of real-world,
practical systems: his software was used, for example, to train air force
recruits in basic electronics.
Jeff received his doctorate, specializing in
Artificial Intelligence, at the Computer and Information Science department of
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1985.
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