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PDMA ANNUAL CONFERENCE NOV 2 - 5
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Register for the conference by September 30th for a chance to be selected for our VIP upgrade experience!
Register by September 30th and you may be the lucky attendee selected for one of two special luxury VIP conference experiences.
The registrants selected will be given a complimentary room upgrade, complimentary VIP roundtrip transportation from the airport to the hotel , complimentary welcome amenity waiting in your room along with all of your conference registration materials. We can't wait to inform our VIPs!
You must be registered for the conference and have booked your hotel stay by September 30 to be eligible for selection.
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MORE SEATS ADDED: Design Thinking Workshop
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Develop a more systematic, human-centered, results-oriented thought process
This 1-Day Design Thinking Fundamentals course for product managers will give you a basic understanding of the Design Thinking problem solving methodology, principles, key tools & terminology. The course will provide product management professionals a fast-paced and interactive exposure to design thinking, including key moments to highlight how Design Thinking can be applied in the field of product management.
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Discounts when you Team Up with PDMA!
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PDMA members receive a
30% discount off the member price starting with the third registration. First two registrants pay the full member rate. Registrations must be submitted together via
PDF form.
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New Product Development
Professional Certification Highlights
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Invest in certification to advance your innovation career.
Use the credibility and credentials of certification to connect with business opportunities, promotions and new job responsibilities. Skills and tools covered are essential to achieve best-in-class results and improve your product success rate.
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Top 3 Reasons to Get NPD Professional Certification
1.
Success
Advance your career. The credibility of New Product Development Professional Certification helps you stand out from the crowd and connect with business opportunities and new jobs. When you earn your NPD Professional Certification, companies looking to hire top talent will see your commitment to the profession, know you have top-notch product development, innovation and management ability and a track record of success.
2. Mastery
NPD Professional Certification is proof and formally recognizes your mastery of NPD principles and drive for productivity, efficiency, and financial results. This edge allows you to document your knowledge and experience in new products and product management, confirms your knowledge of critical end-to-end product processes and makes you an expert.
3. Leadership
Certification Identifies you as someone who has the skills, knowledge, and experience to manage product lines and product teams, and move into leadership positions. You earn a prestigious designation that carries with it a sense of confidence, personal accomplishment and demonstrates your professional competency.
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PDMA Webcast: Influencing for Results
Featuring Speaker Brad Matthews, Managing Director, Co-Innovation Institute AS
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Thursday October 17, 2019
Noon EDT/ 11 a.m. CDT
Space is limited -- register early to reserve your spot!
** Attending a PDMA webcast earns one professional development credit for NPDP certified attendees.
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Session Description:
Are you getting the results you want with others? What important initiatives are at risk if they don't get the support they need? Your ability to leverage opportunities and manage risks depends, at least in part, on your effectiveness in influencing the support needed from others. In other words, results will be, in some way, a function of your influence. Join Brad Matthews as he explores how to ensure the functional expertise of organizations, teams and individuals is more effectively utilized, produces greater positive impact and nurtures more effective, enjoyable work relationships. In this interactive session, practical influence management strategies and techniques will be experientially explored and you will have the opportunity to identify how you intend to become even more successful in influencing for the results you want.
Rates:
PDMA Members: FREE
Non-Members: $10
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JPIM Research Forum, Nov 2 - 3 Orlando
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Conference Awards
The
2019 JPIM Research Forum
offers the following awards, which will be presented at the event:
- Best Competitive Paper
- Best Doctoral Student Paper
- Best Reviewer
- Best Poster
Winners receive feedback on their work regarding potential submission to the
Journal of Product Innovation Management
(JPIM) from Prof. Charles Noble and Prof. Jelena Spanjol, JPIM Editors-in-Chief.
Research Forum Keynote Speaker Jeff Covin
"Corporate Entrepreneurship: Current Research Foci and Promising Research Directions"
Product development activity is inherent to many corporate entrepreneurial processes. This talk will focus on describing two distinct domains of corporate entrepreneurship research where product development activities are core phenomena. These domains are entrepreneurial orientation research and internal corporate venturing research. Conceptual and definitional matters regarding these domains will be reviewed, followed by a presentation of key learnings from research in these domains.
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Don't Forget to Check out kHUB - PDMA's Digital Content Management Resource
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Check out the latest content and discussions. As the world's foremost professional association for product management, development and innovation professionals: practitioners, academics and service providers, our
core value is career-advancing knowledge and resources, founded on sound academic research and proven practical application. kHUB facilitates the creation and exchange of product management, development and innovation knowledge and best practices, that provides the basis for individual professional development and organizational innovation, leading to a competitive edge.
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Noting the Passing of David Wilemon, PDMA's Third President, on August 18, 2019
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PDMA was founded in 1976 by three academics, Merle Crawford (University of Michigan), supported by Bob Rothberg (Rutgers University) and David Wilemon (Syracuse University). Each served successive terms as PDMA's president, with Dave serving the third term in 1980 along with being a director in 1978. All three were visionaries, seeing the need to support improvements in the management of new products cross-functionally rather than being represented as a special interest within organizations defined by business functions. Their goal was to create a professional home for champions of innovation, whether employed in industry, academia or consulting, and uniting their diverse perspectives to form a growing understanding of emerging practices that drive successful innovation management. The power of their early vision is demonstrated by PDMA's continuing success, with a growing international membership.
In PDMA's earliest years, Merle, Bob and Dave divided responsibilities to reach out to people who belonged to a number of different professional organizations. The first 100 PDMA members were university professors; however, many of these individuals had contacts with practitioners, either as former students or through various executive education programs. Thus, membership gradually extended to practitioners, including senior executives who saw the need to improve practices in their companies. The first annual PDMA conference was held in 1977, chaired by Dave Wilemon who served as PDMA's first Vice President of Conferences.
My memories of Dave are special ones. Dave and I met at that first conference, held at the Holiday Inn at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. A year later, when he was one of PDMA's directors, Dave asked me to be the chair of PDMA's third conference, held in Washington, D.C. at the Dupont Circle Hotel. He challenged me to 'think big,' and by using some other connections, I created a special half-day opening session that became the first public release and presentation of President Jimmy Carter's Domestic Policy Review on the State of Innovation in the United States of America. Frankly, without Dave's encouragement to "think big," this idea may never have occurred to me; however, it attracted attention that boosted attendance and PDMA membership.
A year later, when Dave asked me if I would become PDMA's fourth president (to serve in that role in 1981), I replied that I would only do so if the board would support my efforts to create what became The Journal of Product Innovation Management. With only a little delay, Dave called me to report that this would not be a problem. Dave was a true supporter of worthwhile endeavors and advised me, with others, throughout the subsequent 4-year process that led to a contract with our first publisher.
Dave's contribution to creating PDMA in 1976 has fueled many careers and improvements in untold practices. His modesty never permitted him to claim credit for the transformational impact he has had on so many lives. His encouragement certainly helped me achieve some of my own dreams. Thank you, Dave.
Submitted by Thomas P. Hustad, PDMA's Fourth President and Volunteer Manager of PDMA's Headquarters Office, from 1984-1996, Founder and 15-year editor of JPIM
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PDMA has been very fortunate in continued interest from members in wanting to get more involved in PDMA and taking-on volunteer leadership positions with various committees and projects. We are very excited for what this means for the organization including all manors of "reach" including: geographic; organizational; professional focus; new ideas and increased energy to fuel continued development of current and new programming areas. Why do it? Volunteering will help you stay on the leading-edge of the profession and be more current by working aside other passionate product people and you will develop deeper collegial relationships that will be valuable in the course of your career. You will also have some fun! We invite you to take a look at the opportunities on the
volunteer landing page
and hope you will choose to get involved! Opportunities for involvement are detailed there and there is a brief interest form to indicate interest.
Registrations are coming-in at an exciting pace for the PDMA Annual Conference: Competitive Edge: Disruption by Design Conference November 2-5 in Orlando, FL. This is a positive response to the top-flight program that the committee has assembled which I encourage you to view it
HERE
if you have not done so already. Please note that the cut-off date for the special room rate at the Hilton is October 11th so we encourage you to make your travel plans now.
Best regards,
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Conference Sponsorships Available
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Increase Your Exposure. Become a 2019 PDMA Conference Sponsor
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PDMA's Annual Conference unites product leaders, teams, innovation executives, academics and solution providers from nearly every industry sector for the "event of the year" for product professionals. Bring your company's brand to life by engaging with our attendees in person, and maximize brand visibility by sponsoring conference events and materials. Build lifelong brand relationships at PDMA's Annual Conference, and choose among several high-impact options.
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Upcoming Chapter and Global Affiliate Events
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GERMANY
New Product Development Certificate Course
Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg- Center for Advanced Studies
Bildungscampus 13
Heilbronn 74076
Germany
PITTSBURGH
PDMA Body of Knowledge Training
Every Tuesday, from August 27 through October 15
Beyond the Table Research
2605 Nicholson Road, Building 5, Suite 5130
Sewickley, PA 15143
MINNESOTA
OctoberFest Networking event
Wednesday,
October 2, 2019
5-8 p.m.
Summit Brewing
910 Montreal Cir
St Paul, MN 55102
INDONESIA
Multi-industry Perspective Sharing from Practitioner
October 16, 2019
NETHERLANDS
Dr. Cooper: Making Agile-Stage-Gate Real
Thursday, October 17, 2019
8:15 a.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Hotel Jakarta Amsterdam
PDMA.NL Masterclass Innovation with Impact: System Innovation
Friday, October 25, 2019
12:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Mijnwater BV (Heerlen)
Learn More
INDIA
PDMA-INDIA NPD CONFERENCE 2019
December 14-15, 2019
Indian Institute of Technology [IIT] - Madras Campus, IC&SR Hall
Chennai, India
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JPIM
Is Free with PDMA Membership. Access Your Journal Today!
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The JPIM September 2019 issue is now available! Access the latest issue here.
Members, log in and access JPIM articles
here. Non-members may access abstracts. H
ard copy subscriptions for members can be purchased
here
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Don't forget to download the JPIM app!
JPIM app for iOS and Android devices is available from the App Store or Google Play to read all of the issues and articles awaiting publication under "Early View". S
earch for Journal of Product Innovation Management.
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PDMA BoK Guidebook
Get the latest edition of our PDMA BoK,
combining all NPD Professional exam preparation materials in one volume. Purchase a copy
directly through Amazon
.
The PDMA BoK covers the following exam topics:
- Strategy
- Portfolio Management
- NPD Processes
- Culture, Teams, and Organization
- Tools and Metrics
- Market Research
- Life Cycle Management
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Get NPD Professional Certification
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Congratulations on Your NPD Professional Certification!
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PDMA congratulates community member
s who earned their NPD Professional Certification in August 2019!
Adriana Manrique
Evan Cox
Robert Rockwell
Seif Abdelghany
Stacy Tremintin
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| August 2019 New Members: Welcome! |
PDMA welcomes these new members in August 2019. We look forward to working with you!
Academic Members
Karine Samuel
Mario Sergio Salerno
Karine Samuel
Sari Kaufman
Gary Graham
Stephen Enemark
Sameer Kumar
Chunling Yu
Joseph Xu
Marius Claudy
Professional Members
William Fisher
Karin Becker
Steven Elliott
Duncan Macpherson
Steven Flynn
Douglas Taylor
Hongyao Luo
Grant Hunter
Mike Breier
Russell Haines
Ashley Colbert
Nelson Kulandairaj
Robert Arriaga
Jared Devereux
Student Members
David Cramond
Oraine Gordon
Eden Maher
Qi Cao
JULIO MELO
Florian Demann
Niklas Hunsdiek
Xiaohan Zhou
Mara Ortner
Ali Taheri
Martin Lambrechtse
Harsh Sudhakaran Suresh
Colleen Pitt
U.S. Team Members
Katherine Rochelle
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Members, if you have not had the opportunity, please check out the book reviews on the PDMA website
here
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Earn PDHs for NPDP recertification by writing a book review for PDMA! Learn how
here.
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