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June 20, 2013
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Chicago Booth School of Business


Learn best practices from leading experts in product innovation, development and implementation strategies. Develop a New Products System, Marketing Launch Plan, Sales Forecasting and more at this 5-day program. Download brochure.



Strategy 2 Market


Specializing in new product development strategy, process, portfolio management, organization and market understanding


Fox School of Business


The Fox Master of Science in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship enables unparalleled collaboration as individuals from diverse functional backgrounds address real-world innovation challenges like new product development and technology commercialization.


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Explore Three Trends in the Field of Voice of the Customer by Attending PDMA's June 27 Webcast

PDMA HQ Announcements

Your Ultimate Product Innovation Experience: PIM13

At PDMA's 2013 Product Innovation Management Conference (PIM 13), you can bring your problems and leave with solutions. We've hand-picked the brightest practitioners and thought leaders to share, collaborate and innovate so that you can tackle your toughest product development challenges.

This year's event, themed "Innovation Under Constraint," will help you get outside of the ongoing struggle to create innovative products in today's environment of heightened competition and reduced resources.

Join us for the ultimate, interactive five-day conference, Oct. 26-30, at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix. Click here to plan your innovation getaway.

Upcoming Webcast: How Innovation Can Be Transformed from a Random Event into a Reliable System

Thursday, July 18, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. CDT

Presented by Bruce Hall, President, Eureka!Ranch
Moderated by Jerel Walters

Want to learn how to harness innovation into a scientific system for profitable growth? Let the President of Eureka!Ranch, Bruce Hall, show you how through Innovation Engineering, a proven system developed by Eureka!Ranch, the University of Maine Foster Innovation Center and the National Institute of Standards and Technology agency of the U.S. Commerce Department. Learn more and register here.

PDMA Publications

Sneak Peek: Q2 2013 Visions Magazine

Keep an eye on your inbox: The Q2 2013 issue of Visions will be released next month. The issue features a cover story called Sustainable Innovation: How Your Company can Benefit Contributing to a Better World. Consumers can no longer miss the global trend of sustainability, but what does it take for a company to benefit from this trend and to convert the innovation process into a sustainable innovation process?

We hope you enjoy Q2's issue and welcome your feedback on the content and new digital format. Do you have comments, questions or suggestions to share? Contact Editor-in-Chief Dennis Coyle to let us know what you think!

Upcoming Industry Events

Design to Value: Deliver Bigger, Faster, Value-Based Innovations

Wednesday June 26, Noon - 12:45 p.m. EDT

Best-of-breed companies use a Design to Value approach to drive game-changing innovation. With Design to Value, companies align customer insight with technical design expertise early in the phase gate process to develop products that customers truly want, capturing higher profit and accelerating development cycles as a result.

Leverage Point is delighted to have Kalypso, the world's premier innovation consulting firm, join us for our June webinar. Recently Kalypso announced their strategic alliance with LeveragePoint as their preferred technology platform for value quantification analysis. Colleagues from Kalypso will share their latest client case study of a company that transformed its early phase product development process to successfully bring more breakthrough innovations to market.

During this 45-minute webinar you will learn:

  • Where and how to embed Design to Value into your phase gate process
  • What B2B can learn from B2C about customer-driven innovation
  • How a technology platform enables faster, more efficient new product development

Register now!

3rd Annual Disruptive Innovations to Advance Clinical Trials

Sept. 19-20, 2013, The Fairmont Copley Plaza, Boston, Mass.

Co-chaired by Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Novartis and Janssen, DPharm is the definitive event for innovators in the clinical trial space. The conference introduces novel and bold approaches to help attendees think radically different about how to do clinical trials.

Program highlights include the opening presentation on designing a non-traditional clinical trial followed by a case study on alternative clinical settings. The Keynote chat features Dr. Krishna Yeshwant from Google Ventures, who will give his perspective as a physician, programmer and entrepreneur on new approaches to disrupt drug development. Brand new to the program is a collaboration with MIT; they will share the results of a Hackathon on barriers to clinical trials. The conference also has special guests covering disruptive innovation from both Bloomberg Business Week and the Discovery Channel.

The DPharm event is for anyone interested in innovative approaches to changing the pace of clinical trials. PDMA members get a 25% discount with code "PDMA." To register and for more information, click here.