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Uncap Your Creativity: 2016 PDMA Annual Conference Registration Open
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Mapping out your commitments for 2016? Plan today to join 300+ fellow masterminds at the PDMA Annual Conference, October 16-19 in Atlanta, GA to "uncap" your creativity and product development and management ideas.There is no better place to share ideas, test theory, discover solutions, challenge your creativity and create meaningful relationships -- the possibilities are limitless!
Remember: Best Rates Expire August 26, 2016.
Non-Member Special
Non-Member All-Access Pass, Annual Conference Only and Research Forum prices now include one year of PDMA membership. This special is only available for non-members!
Become a member of PDMA and experience all the benefits membership has to offer.
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Founder and Former CEO of Travelocity to Share Innovation Insights at 2016 PDMA Annual Conference
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In his PDMA Annual Conference keynote presentation, Terry Jones, Founder and Former CEO of Travelocity and Former Chairman of Kayak.com, will provide real-world examples from his start-up experiences. Through his easy step-by-step plans, you will return home with new ways to apply the "business of innovation" to your organization.
Key takeaways include:
- Generating great ideas and cultivating a creative work culture
- "Failing fast" and learning how to kill projects without killing people
- Bringing experimentation to your organization and how to do more with less
Learn more about Terry here.
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While You Wait for Visions Issue 2
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 Take a look at Visions Issue 1 feature article "When Worlds Collide" to learn new ways to brand your product through industrial and interaction design.
Author Chris Murray explains, "We have four generations colliding in our marketplace, and they are quite different. Traditional segmentation models don't necessarily work as cleanly for today's brands as they did for previous generations. Today, customers want functional features, benefits and product quality as a given."
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Making Innovations Happen: Fostering Innovation by Inducing Foresight
By Ravi Arora. Book Review by Teresa Jurgens-Kowal, PhD, NPDP
Ravi Arora's new book, "Making Innovations Happen" offers a unique perspective to holistic innovation. Arora proposes a new methodology to guide product portfolio selection and manage innovation incentives (awards).
The book is written from the context of two recent Harvard Business School graduates engaged in a series of conversations. Both have landed peachy jobs at large corporations and are immersed in innovation: the front-end of innovation (Jiao) and the back-end retrospectives of innovation (Paul).
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Highlight on PDMA Chapters
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PDMA Pittsburgh Chapter Explores the Internet of Things (IoT)
The PDMA Pittsburgh Chapter invited C.J. Handron, Co-Founder and CEO of Diamond Kinetics, to speak during the May Innovation Forum. More than 40 product development professionals gathered in downtown Pittsburgh to learn how Diamond Kinetics is helping to transform the baseball industry through the use of data and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Diamond Kinetics embeds sensors inside baseball bats to provide 3D modeling and analysis of a player's swing. Batters at the pro, college, and high school levels can compare their performance to a database of other athletes.
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Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM)
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The June 2016 issue of JPIM (Volume 33, Issue 2) is currently available. Access it online today.
To access the June 2016 issue of JPIM, members may log in and access JPIM articles here. Non-members may access abstracts. |
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