L.B. Day
L.B. Day is president of L. B. Day and Company, Inc., a strategic planning and organization design consulting firm he co-founded in 1976. Mr. Day’s specialty areas include strategic planning, executive development, and organization design.
Mr. Day has consulted at the executive level with organizations including Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Materials, CompTIA, DA NanoMaterials, Fujitsu, Global Foundries, IBM, InFocus, Intel, Lam Research, NWEA, Raytheon, Sun Microsystems, Xerox, and various US government agencies, implementing strategic planning, marketing, organization improvement and executive-team development strategies. He has developed professional texts and training materials on strategic planning, culture development, and team leadership, and has held the positions of adjunct professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology and the Willamette University Graduate School of Administration.
Mr. Day and his colleagues provide strategic counsel for their customers that includes vital industry and customer data and a strategic planning process for identifying plausible success scenarios. Customers use these to increase competitiveness, and become more responsive to their markets, customers, suppliers and other key stakeholders. The efforts of Mr. Day and his colleagues at L. B. Day and Company have helped their client organizations achieve and sustain market leadership.
Mr. Day received his M.B.A. from the George Washington University, where he was a Scottish Rite Fellow. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Microchip Technology (Nasdaq MCHP) and Lynguent Technology. He has served on many other boards over the past three decades.
Contact Information
L. B. Day
L. B. Day & Company, Inc.
lb@lbday.com
(503) 226-4184
Robert Harmon, Ph.D.
Specialty: Bob’s consulting focus is on strategic market assessment. His creative and innovative approach to helping his clients understand where they are in their industry’s food chain and how they can prosper within this complex eco system is unparalleled.
Dr. Harmon is Professor of Marketing and Technology Management at Portland State University, where he teaches technology marketing and product development courses in the M.B.A. and Engineering Management programs. Previous faculty affiliations include positions at the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird), Arizona State University, and the University of Oregon. Dr. Harmon was an American Marketing Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow at the Wharton School.
Dr. Harmon has over 20 years’ experience as a marketing consultant in semi-conductors, instrumentation, flat-panel display, servers, security, wireless networks, optics, CRM, project-management and geospatial information software. He has held positions in finance, marketing and new-product development for organizations in the pharmaceutical, water systems, IT portfolio management software, and wireless payment systems industries.
Dr. Harmon has authored numerous academic articles on market research and strategy, customer value strategies, time strategy, pricing strategy, trend analysis and strategic scenario planning. A recent article by Dr. Harmon, The Dynamics of the Corporate Food Chain: Strategy, Power, and Positioning in the Age of Outsourcing, was selected as the most outstanding paper presented at the 2006 Picmet world conference in Istanbul.
Dr. Harmon earned his M.B.A. from California State University, Long Beach, and his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Arizona State University.
C. Neil Berglund, Ph.D.
Specialty: Neil’s consulting specialties are strategic planning and coaching leaders in the technology transfer process. His greatest expertise is his ability to guide clients in aggressively reducing the time to successfully transfer new technology to manufacturing.
Neil Berglund serves as professor at the Portland State University School of Engineering, and has served as professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute’s School of Science and Engineering. Since 1993, Dr. Berglund has also been a member of the Sloan Foundation / Sematech research team at the University of California, Berkeley, studying the management practices of the worldwide semiconductor industry.
From 1978 to 1983, Dr. Berglund was Director of Technology Development at Intel. He founded Ateq Corporation, a laser-based lithography company (now Eteq Systems, an Applied Materials company). In 1987, Dr. Berglund became president of Northwest Technology Group, a microelectronics consulting firm.
Dr. Berglund is a Fellow of the IEEE, elected for his contributions to MOS device technology. In 1995, he was co-recipient of the BACUS Prize for contributions to photomask technology, and in 2001 was one of the recipients of the SEMI Award for North America, recognizing his role in developing the laser-based mask writing tools used today in the manufacture of over half the industry’s masks and reticles. Dr. Berglund also serves on the board of directors of Luxtera, Inc., a nanophotonics startup company.
Dr. Berglund earned his M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.