Submit Your 2017 Outstanding Corporate Innovator (OCI) Award Nomination
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 Nominate an organization to join an elite group of global corporations respected for their innovation success.
In 2017, PDMA will celebrate 30 years of recognizing and rewarding organizations which have achieved sustained and quantifiable business results from new products and services with the Outstanding Corporate Innovator (OCI) Award. The OCI Committee is currently seeking nominations for the 2017 OCI Award. Apply now.
PDMA is seeking organizations who have demonstrated the following attributes:
- Sustained success in launching new products or services over a five-year time frame
- Significant company growth directly tied to recent product innovations
- Well-defined new product development practices and processes that can be described to others
- Distinctive characteristics and intangibles that facilitate innovation success across the organization
Firms, regardless of size or industry, which meet the above criteria, are candidates. This is a global award and companies from anywhere in the world are eligible. Nominations of other companies and self nominations are encouraged!
The deadline for nominations is Monday, March 13.
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Volunteer with PDMA in 2017
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Are you seeking ways to grow your leadership skills and professional development in 2017? Our association offers several ways to volunteer at the local, national or international level.
PDMA is seeking submissions for volunteer committees. Read more information if you are interested in volunteering on one of the standing PDMA Committees.
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Join PDMA at The Economist Events' Innovation Summit in Chicago
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 On February 28, 2017 at The Economist Events'
Innovation Summit in Chicago, join Editors from
The Economist and more than 200 Fortune 500 CEOs, policymakers and disruptive entrepreneurs to share their insights and strategies for successful digital transformation. Hear from speakers from companies such as Cisco, Facebook, GE Transportation and more.
Register with code PDMA15 and save 15% on tickets.
Among the topics to be explored are:
- How to profit from the internet of things
- The challenge of workforce transformation
- How voice and virtual reality will change work
- New frontiers in customer centricity
- Regulation and digital disruption
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Tackling Portfolio Complexity in Visions
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Don't let a complex portfolio stand in the way of driving new innovation! Customers expect more products in more varieties, faster than ever before. To compete effectively, organizations must tackle complexity and its impacts to eliminate a bloated product portfolio.
"Up to 80% of Your Products Are Losing Money" in explores why your company should care about portfolio complexity and how to navigate which products are turning a profit. Scott Stallbaum, Wilson Perumal & Company, and Andrew Ly walk readers through the "Whale Curve," plotting a company's cumulative profit as a function of products ranked by their profitability. The co-authors write, "Properly managing your product portfolio requires a multi-faceted approach to understand the role each product plays in meeting strategic and financial objectives."
Follow Stallbaum and Ly's tips for designing an optimal portfolio to maintain lower levels of complexity.
Read
Visions Issue 3 2016 online
here.
To contribute future content for
Visions, please contact Assistant Editor
Jaclyn Moriarty.
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2017 PDMA-UNH Innovation Doctoral Consortium
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July 19-21, 2017 at the University of New Hampshire
Application Deadline Extended for Doctoral Students: March 5, 2017
PDMA and the University of New Hampshire (UNH) are co-sponsoring the third triennial
PDMA-UNH Doctoral Consortium from Wednesday, July 19 - Friday, July 21, 2017.
The Doctoral Consortium is devoted to teaching and mentoring doctoral students conducting impactful dissertation research on innovation and new product / service development, and preparing the next generation of scholars in this important field of study. Students who are accepted into the Consortium will be honored as Doctoral Student Fellows and have a unique opportunity to network, collaborate, exchange ideas, and discuss their research with leading innovation scholars, editors, and executives at the
Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH.
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 Smarter, Faster, Better
by Charles Duhigg. Random House: New York, NY (2016). 380 pages. US$28.00 (hardcover).
Who among us does not wish to improve his or her productivity?
Charles Duhigg's well-researched, new book, Smarter, Faster, Better, offers several tips we can apply to our own lives, as well as to our work teams, to improve productivity and efficiency.
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Call For Papers: Special Issue of JPIM
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Given the evolving nature of innovation and the shifting focus of innovation from developed economies to emerging economies, the purpose of this special issue is
: To address a pressing need to understand social innovation in an interconnected world, specifically its role in emerging economies.
We invite manuscripts that are from various scholarly domains including, but not limited to economics, finance, international business, marketing, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology and strategy.
We also encourage manuscripts that go across markets and industries, and take a global perspective. We further welcome diversified methods (qualitative or quantitative, or mixed), including comparative history analysis and case study to enrich our understanding of social innovation in the interconnected world.
Learn more about the review process timeline and submission process details.
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Congratulations on Your NPDP Certification!
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Updating your PDMA profile is simple with the steps below.
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- Review and update all fields with the correct information, including Contact Information, Professional Role and Role Function.
Simple as that! Contact pdma@pdma.org with questions.
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Are you a current PDMA member and know someone who would benefit from joining PDMA?
Participate in the Refer a Friend Campaign
to receive $50 for each new member you recruit.
Simply have them enter your name in the "Referred By" section in the membership application. At the end of the quarter, we'll send you check. Easy as that.
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Earn PDHs for NPDP Recertification by writing a book review for PDMA! Learn how here.
Contact Teresa Jurgens-Kowal, PhD, NPDP with questions or submissions.
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Upcoming Chapter and Global Affiliate Events
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The Intersection of Product Management/Development and Analytics
Carolinas Chapter
Innovate Carolinas Foundation - Part I
Chicago Chapter
March 3, 2017
Breakfast Club
Chicago Chapter
March 13, 2017
Evening Program Downtown
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