Welcome to the POMS College of Product Innovation and Technology Management. The mission of the college is to create a closely-knit community of researchers, educators, and practitioners engaged in studying and disseminating issues that arise in the management of technology and new product innovation. Specifically, we are interested in examining the management of the creation and application of rapidly changing technologies as well as the development and launch of innovative new products.

As the global economy shifts to one driven by technology, innovation, and information, companies are confronted with new operational questions and issues. Through focused special events and journal special issues, the college seeks to unearth and highlight these issues and build a critical mass of researchers attempting to address these questions with new insights, concepts and methodologies. The college will also seek to engage practitioners and industry thinkers on these topics. In addition, we will also facilitate the exchange of ideas on an educational agenda with respect to product and technology management.

Like other POMS colleges, we will be actively involved in organizing sessions at the annual POMS conference. In addition, we shall periodically have special events and journal special issues. The college will use the web to foster rich conversations within the community. The college kicks off with a number of non- elected office bearers to the college board, whose role will be to get the college up and running and to establish a solid direction. We thank the members and office bearers of POMS for giving us the opportunity to start the College of Product Innovation and Technology Management.

Past Events

The first conference of POMS College of Product Innovation and Technology Management (PI&TM) was held at Boston University on May 2, 2006. This conference focused on issues at the interface between academia and practice, across four panel sessions:
• Product Portfolio Management
• Distributed Product Development
• Technology Commercialization & Startup Operations
• Process Improvement, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning

Industry experiences were shared by speakers from firms such as IBM, P&G and Vertex Pharmaceuticals. These panel sessions were chaired by Christian Terwiesch (Wharton), Edward Anderson (Texas), Janice Carrillo (Florida) and Vish Krishnan (UC San Diego).

The PI&TM College also took this opportunity to confer distinguished fellowships upon Karl Ulrich (Wharton) and Steven Eppinger (MIT). Fellowship citations were read by Edward Anderson and plaques were presented by Cheryl Gaimon and Vish Krishnan (Co-Presidents for College of PI&TM College, 2005-2006).

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