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2015 Outstanding Corporate Innovator (OCI) Award Nominaton Process is Open
The OCI Committee now starts the process of identifying candidates for the 2015 OCI Award and your help is needed. We are looking for organizations which can demonstrate the use of disciplined practices to continuously develop and launch a stream of value creating new products and services. The specific criteria are:
Firms, regardless of size or industry, which meet the above criteria, are candidates. Self-nominations are encouraged. Please help us identify the 2015 OCI candidates by completing the simple nomination form to submit your nomination(s). To learn more about the award and the past recipients click here. Thank you for your help maintaining OCI as a valuable PDMA asset. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Suzanne Thompson, Chair, OCI Committee. PDMA Announces 2015 Board of DirectorsPDMA is pleased to announce the 2015 Board of Directors. Executive Committee Directors Congratulations! We're thrilled for what 2015 has in store. Volunteer with PDMA in 2015Would you like to get more involved with PDMA in 2015? PDMA offers several ways to get involved in the association at the local, national or international level. Currently we are seeking submissions for our volunteer committees. If you are interested in volunteering on one of the standing PDMA Committees, click here for more information. Book Review: Innovation and Growth: What Do We Know?Written by Faculty Members of the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Ed., Anjan Thakor Review by Adam Gardner
This book is divided into two very different parts. The first part, which is labelled Part A, focuses on summarizing the academic research on innovation from a few different functional perspectives. The authors provide high level summaries of where the research is currently in their respective fields, cite other relevant works, and generally cover a lot of ground in a short number of pages. Readers looking to dig deep into the current body of knowledge will find this portion of the book relevant and potentially end up with several additions to their reading list. The second part, labelled Part B, offers guidance and perspective for the innovation manager. This part of the book is less academic and more actionable in nature. Deepen Your Knowledge of New Product Development with JPIM The journal publishes original articles on organizations of all sizes (start-ups, small-medium enterprises, large) and from the consumer, business-to-business, and institutional domains. Authors across the world from diverse disciplines and functional perspectives are welcome to submit to the journal. Accessing the leading academic journal devoted to product development is easy! Access for PDMA Members: An electronic subscription to JPIM is included with your PDMA Membership. Please note that hard copy subscriptions for members can be purchased for $35 here. Note that your hard copy subscription will last for one year from purchase. PDMA members have full access to JPIM articles dating back to 1984. Login and access JPIM articles here. Click here for more information on how Institutions and Libraries can purchase subscriptions. Access for Non-PDMA Members: Non-members may access abstracts. Please contact econner@pdma.org with any questions about accessing JPIM in 2015. As a member benefit, we hope you will find the content engaging and informative. PDMA Chapter EventsHighlight on PDMA Boston Chapter Upcoming Event: Creativity: It's Not Just About the Front End of Innovation Creativity, the production of novel ideas that serve a purpose, is the starting point for innovation and an essential input for growth in our companies and in our economy at large. But creativity also has application well beyond the front end of innovation and can be deliberately invoked to assist with challenges and opportunities presented at all stages of new product development. Join the Greater Boston PDMA on Thursday, February 26th, to hear Cortney Zwart, Innovation and Creative Problem Solving Consultant lead a discussion on how creativity operates, how to apply it to challenges, how to elicit it within your team and what's required from your organization to support it. Register now for this event and network with other product development, product management and innovation professionals in the Boston area. Speaker: Courtney Zwart, Consultant – Innovation & Creative Problem Solving Event Date: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 Timing:
Justin Harper, Greater Boston Chapter President All Upcoming PDMA Chapter Events
NPDP Certified Individuals December 2014Congratulations to the PDMA community members who earned their NPDP certification in December!
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In 2014, PDMA celebrated 27 years of recognizing and rewarding organizations which have achieved sustained and quantifiable business results from new products and services. At the 2014 Annual Conference in Denver, CO the 2014 OCI Winners, Novozymes and Starbucks, shared with the attendees the practices which have contributed to their ability to consistently create and capture value through innovation.
Innovation and Growth is a collection of papers authored by faculty members of the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and edited by Anjan Thakor. Each of the papers or chapters included in this book is a self-contained piece of work and there is no need to read the book in any particular order. Having said that, Chapter 1 is a good overview of the book and would provide a nice guideline for the time-pressed reader who is intent on picking and choosing their chapters. 
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