L.B. Day
Specialties: L.B.’s consulting focus is on leading the strategic planning process, customer / supplier problem-solving and executive development. His knowledge and experience of group dynamics allow him to get the best out of the organization’s strategic team.
L.B. Day is president of L.B. Day & Company, Inc., whose parent company he co-founded in 1977. Well known for his work in strategic planning, organization design and executive team development, Mr. Day has consulted at the executive level with organizations that include Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Materials, Fluke Manufacturing, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Pharmacia Upjohn, Raytheon, Sun Microsystems and various U.S. government agencies. He has held the positions of adjunct professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology and at the Willamette University Graduate School of Administration, and is presently on the advisory board of Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management.
Mr. Day has been published in various trade publications on strategic planning, leading change, and team leadership. He is currently developing competitive factor assessments within the semiconductor industry geared to help client organizations incorporate their competitive assessment findings into their strategic plans.
Mr. Day earned his M.B.A. from George Washington University, where he was a Scottish Rite Fellow. He is a member of the board of directors of Microchip Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), and Lynguent Technology, Inc.
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.