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Making The Transformation To New Product Development . Champion follower or failure.

Presentation By Mike Beard at PDMA So. Cal May 22, 2013 Henry Ford when building the model T said that if he had asked potential customer what they wanted they would have said two horses……Customers don’t know what they don’t … Continue reading

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Futurist Speaks- Future of Med Devices predicted, ….Med Devices Forcast for 2030,

Thomas Frey Editor for Futurist Magazine and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute gave the keynote address “Futurists View of Manufacturing” at the Medical Device Show, Anaheim Calf. Feb 12, 2013. He covered a wide range of manufacturing topics from … Continue reading

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Five New Product Experts Speak at PDMA So. Calf. Meeting 8/21/2012

We where fortunate to have five speakers from a wide verity of backgrounds share their experiences on New Product Development (NPD) One expert hailed from the Automotive world, another brought Intel and Mattel together, others worked in the software world, … Continue reading

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Review of PDMA meeting 5/15/2012, Presentation by Gunjan Bagla “Developing a Global Practice for Innovation that Includes Internal and External Centers of Expertise”

Gunjan Bagla – Amritt Inc. PDMA – So Cal Meeting: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 “Developing a Global Practice for Innovation that Includes Internal and External Centers of Expertise” Gunjan shared how a US based company (Clorox) met its need to … Continue reading

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Review of PDMA – So. Cal. 1/17/2012 Agile- Scrum Presentation by Bachan Anand of Consires Agile Practices

It is my opinion that Agile – Scrum is the next big thing for New Product Development. In a nut shell rather than build to a specification, Agile – Scrum aims to build the most important features first. Then cycle … Continue reading

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Review of Consumer Emotion & Desire Presentation given by Mark Capper Pres. Kompas Strategy

Mark gave this presentation at the Product Development Management Assoc. – LA on June 15, 2011. Consumers can only juggle 7 things in their mind at any one time. There are way too many choices in the market for us … Continue reading

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