REPORT FROM

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IEEE-SAStandards Board

• REPORT FROM
• Judy Gorman, Managing Director
• 22 March 2007
• Piscataway, NJ, USA

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Subjects

• Staff Update
• New Organization
• Space
• Goals for 07

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New Organization

• Why reorganize?
• Significant changes in our business
• Enlarging scope to full life-cycle of a standard
• Leveraging professional and IP assets
• Support growth of Corporate Program
• Increase governance oversight
• Balance risk and opportunity
• Absorb full utilization of BMS

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Corporate Programs

• Adding Administrator to headcount
• Reporting to Mary Lynne Nielsen
• Provide dedicated support
• Free ML for external outreach

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Technical Program Development

• As already announced, two new Program Managers,
  TPD, added to headcount
• Additional process oversight
• Norma Davis and Malia Zaman started 29 January
• Publishing group has no open h/c
• Lorraine Patsco joined us 2 January
• Full review of Publishing needs underway

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Governance

• David Ringle promoted to Manager, with 2 direct
  reports
• SA needs increased management oversight of
  standards policies and procedures
• Currently THE PP expert, and runs 3 committees
  Patents, Review, Procedures
• Need Davids knowledge availability to
• Support Patent Pools initiative
• Provide on-demand, paid services to standards
  committees for PPs, etc.
• Added Moira Patterson, Administrator, to support
  Review Committee

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Business Development

• NEWS
• Focus on niche standards businesses
• Migrated ISOL delivery to Xplore platform and
  their sales (1.4M) to Jonathan Dahl early 07
  sales delivery outsourced
• After transition period, E-Business Manager
  position to be eliminated
• Jerry Walker reports directly to me
• ?
• Edward Rashba promoted to head New Business
  Ventures, with 2 direct reports
• Conformity Assessment, Patent Pools, et al
• Chris Vigil promoted to Manager, Funded Services
• Emerging Technologies - Cherry Tom
• Angela Weaver promoted to Sr. Administrator, with
  1 direct report
• Revenue-generating business of 1.4M
• Has assumed total responsibility for program
• Audrey Grant, Administrative Assistant

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Marketing

• Maximum efficient use of BMS
• Product management responsibilities
• Karen McCabe promoted (title tbd)
• Directs marketing and product management/PL
• SA representative on BMS Steering Team
• Markus Plessel promoted to Product Manager with 3
  direct reports
• Manages existing product lines (e.g., single
  sales, SIN, VuSpec, ISOL)
• BMS Super-User for SA
• Colleen Crary title change to Marketing Manager,
  with 2 direct reports
• SA membership and marketing administrators
• Executes dynamic marketing communications

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Summary

• Promotions
• David Ringle
• Angela Weaver
• Edward Rashba
• Chris Vigil
• Karen McCabe
• Markus Plessel
• Change in Reporting Structure
• Jerry Walker reports to Judy Gorman
• Damon Logiudice, Jennifer McClain, Esaleta
  Yearwood report to Markus Plessel
• Cherry Tom and Chris Vigil report to Edward
  Rashba
• Sherry Hampton and Moira Patterson report to
  David Ringle
• Audrey Grant reports to Angela Weaver
• Patricia Sulzer and New Hire report to Colleen
  Crary
• New Hire Corporate Program reports to Mary Lynne
  Nielsen

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Space Why Renovate?

• 2005(!) Employee Morale Survey Results
• Formed key teams
• Space
• Telecommuting
• Communications
• Weve outgrown existing setup

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Space Team

• Cubicles too cramped
• Noise
• between cubicles
• in corridors
• from equipment
• impediment to productivity
• Wasted space

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Goals

• Increase size of cubicles
• Increase of cubicles
• Create floater space for
• Full-time telecommuters
• Part-time telecommuters
• Travel-intensive jobs
• Bury noisy equipment

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Status

• Materials being ordered
• Work to start in approximately 6 weeks
• Department to trial new phone system for IEEE
  plug in where you are!

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2007 Staff Goals - draft

• Transform the IEEE-SA business model to one that
  leverages our professional and intellectual
  assets (e.g., IP, services, certification,
  patents).
• Create and implement a process to strengthen
  staff performance by building on individual
  talents, with a goal of developing individuals,
  advancing high-performance teams, and progressing
  the SA.
• Plan and implement an effective education and
  communication plan to ensure compliance with new
  IP policies.
• Understand and balance stakeholder goals with
  overall IEEE interests.
• Embed risk management into IEEE-SA culture.
• Increase staff engagement in advancing the
  IEEE-SA international strategy.
• Increase the number of successful standards in
  new, select, market-relevant technologies (e.g.,
  energy efficiency, healthcare IT, simple
  technologies)

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Truncated Version

• Nurture talent
• High-performance teams
• Leverage value of IP
• Understand changed IP policies
• Risk management ? doing nothing
• Think globally
• Tomorrows technologies today!

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• Welcome to the year of the Tiger!

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Even though it is the year of the pig