Each year the Strategic Resource Management attracts over 100 participants who help lead their organization’s resource management strategy. Our 2009 meeting will build on last year's successful event with novel case studies and perspectives from thought leaders.

Key issues to be addressed include:
- Aligning Portfolio & Productivity with Corporate Strategy to Drive Strategic Resource Allocation
- Designing Strategic Resource Management Systems Specifically for Pharma R&D
- Incorporating a "Globalized" Workforce and Other Resourcing Options into Capacity Management
- Optimizing Resource Allocation to Efficiently Drive the Most Promising Projects
- Building Partnerships Between Project Management, Resource Management, Functional Management, and Finance
- Allocating Resource Projects and Studies in this Contracting Environment
- Pursuing Operational Excellence: Competitive Advantages, New Operating Models, a New Lean Industry, and Learning from Resource Process Development beyond just Clinical
- Embracing the Changing R&D Business Models: Off-shoring, In-sourcing, In-Out Licensing and Risk-Sharing
- Implications for Resource and Portfolio Management of Different Development Paradigms: Research, Early and Stage Development
-In addition, a Pre-Conference Workshop: ‘Maximizing Portfolio Value in a Time of Increasingly Constrained Resources’