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Thursday, November 17, 2022
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Thank you to everyone who attended the 2022 PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference and JPIM Research Forum!
A special thank-you to the PDMA Conference Committee, board, volunteers, and staff for their hard work and dedication to make this event a success.
If you missed the event, check out #PDMA2022 on our social media channels!
Thank you, PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference sponsors, for all your support!
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Congratulations to the Hershey Company — Winner of the 2022 Outstanding Corporate Innovator Award!
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For 35 years, PDMA's exclusive Outstanding Corporate Innovator (OCI) Award has been the premier honor for industry innovators.
The 2022 OCI Award Winner is The Hershey Company, an industry-leading snacks company known for bringing goodness to the world through its iconic brands, remarkable people and enduring commitment to help children succeed, headquartered in Hershey, PA. The Hershey Company has demonstrated seamless and open innovation resulting in growth, strong work processes, brand recognition and an exemplary culture. This year, The Hershey Company was recognized by The Wall Street Journal for their creative diversification strategies that helped the company soar in a time when other companies were struggling with market meltdown.
Read the full press release.
Learn more about this prestigious award at: https://www.pdma.org/page/OCI_award.
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And the Winner Is ... Team NanoAid from University of Calgary (Canada)
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Counting Assistant from Duke University, USA, NanoAid from University of Calgary, Canada, and Solar Mineralis from University of Tulsa, USA, shared their presentations, participated in Q/A, and interacted with the audience that then voted for their favorite entry.
Congratulations to all 74 students representing 13 universities and 20 teams from 6 countries that submitted their understanding of product development to compete for prize monies by submitting a product/service/software idea and detailing the unique value proposition, evidence of demand, and mock-up or embodiment of that product.
First place team:
Team NanoAid from University of Calgary (Canada)
Amy Houston, Amneet Deol, Amina Khan, Giovanna Acosta, Hunter Marcelo
Second place team:
Team Solar Mineralis from University of Tulsa, (USA) Bryce Goswick, Andrew Varvara, Suraj Vodnala
Third place team:
Team Counting Assistant from Duke University (USA) Winnie Cross, Sydney Collins, Elena Rippeon
GSIC2023 will be open for submissions early December 2022 through June 1, 2023.
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Meet Your PDMA Board!
DIRECTOR ROLANDO CRUZADO
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Rolando Cruzado is an Industrial Engineer with 10 years of experience developing and accelerating more than 2,000 R&D and innovation projects of different technologies funded with over USD $100M through global programs such as Newton Fund (UK), IDB, World Bank, USAID (USA), and the Global Fund (Switzerland).
Rolando holds a Master's degree in Innovation and Change Management at York St. John University (United Kingdom) and is a fellow of Intel (Silicon Valley, USA) and Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering (London, United Kingdom) with postgraduate studies in Technology Transfer by UC Davis.
Rolando is passionate about product innovation. He serves as Accelerator Product Manager at Conservation X Labs, a technology and innovation company that develops initiatives and empowers innovators to revolutionize conservation and prevent the sixth mass extinction. In his role, he supports the Amazon CoLab, an accelerator program that helps innovative teams to develop solutions to protect people and ecosystems in the Amazon rain forest.
He serves as a professor and mentor in topics of Technological Innovation, Acceleration, and Incubation at the academy field. He also supports as a Researcher at RoboticsLab from NFM Robotics, a Research & Development Center, exploring novel approaches through robotics technologies.
Earlier in his career, he has been Supervisor of the Peruvian Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovations fund; Associate Consultant for the Department of Innovation and Technology of the Peruvian Government; and Knowledge Management Coordinator at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), building Open innovation programs and global solutions worldwide.
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PDMA WEBCAST
Product Innovation – The Next Generation
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Join us for an overview of PDMA’s Global Student Innovation Challenge – learn about how students, professors, entrepreneurs and practitioners use process and best practices to launch successful products.
PDMA’s Global Student Innovation Challenge provides a stage for young entrepreneurs to develop ideas driven towards innovation-based ventures, and helps students transition from academic to real-world practitioners. This program provides an opportunity to develop an idea for a new product or business and receive feedback from knowledgeable people, and works to prepare students to learn product development strategy driven by market intelligence, product development methodologies and frameworks through developing product solutions to real world problems.
Register above to learn about this year’s competition and hear from our students about their projects!
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kHUB Access
Just a reminder that access to kHUB is free and open to the public. Simply sign in to your PDMA account and start searching for relevant topics, blog posts, articles, webcasts, and more — check it out today and explore and gain knowledge on various product and innovation topics.
Do you have content to contribute?
Email it to khub@pdma.org. To join our online discussions, visit the PDMA Community and the PDMA kHUB.
kHUB's Most Popular Articles:
See what your competitors and peers have been accessing in kHUB recently.
Some of the most-read kHUB content last month include the classics:
New kHUB Content
Links to New Blogs have been added to kHUB’s additional resources! Follow this blog series from Egypt Chapter Leader Seif Abdelghany: New Product Innovation.
NPI is all about Product Innovation, Management & Creating 10x Outstanding Experience. And check out the other podcasts and blogs the kHUB curators recommend.
How might these (or other) kHUB postings help your organization win in your product space?
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ST. LOUIS
A Product Owner’s Journey from Scribe to Entrepreneur
February 7, 2023
4:30–6:30pm CST (GMT -6)
Location: Virtual
Learn more and register
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JPIM Is Free with PDMA Membership. Access Your Journal Today!
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The JPIM September 2022 issue is now available! Access the latest issue here.
Members, log in and access JPIM articles here. Non-members may access abstracts. Hard copy subscriptions for members can be purchased here.
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". Search for Journal of Product Innovation Management.
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PDMA is growing! Meet and connect with our new members by signing into the PDMA community on our website.
PDMA welcomed these new members in October 2022. We look forward to working with you!
Individual Members
Andrei Abraztsou
JuanCarlos Bolomey
Gervais Johnson
Craig O'Connell
Dan Olson
Zhiyong Piao
Michael Salemi
Taylor Vanden Hoek
Academic Members
BJ Allen
Susanne Beck
Abderaouf Bouguerra
Sebastian Brenk
Jie Chen
Feng Chen
Joseph Derby
Bunga Fajar
Muhamad Irawan
Fajar Winda Nastiti
Shlomo Tarba
Zherui Zhang
Cuncun Zhao
Student Members
Marcelo de la Cruz
Theresa Doppstadt
Kristen Ferguson
Xingang Qin
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Get NPD Professional Certification
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PDMA congratulates community members who earned their NPD Professional Certification in October 2022!
Hsiao-Feng Chen
Kathleen Dawes
Shenyu Ren
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Congratulations and Our Sincere Thanks to Gloria Barczak for Her Service on the PDMA Board of Directors!
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Gloria has served on the Board with distinction over the past three years, representing the whole PDMA community and particularly the academic community. She has provided strong leadership on several key initiatives including the Best Practices Survey. Thank you, Gloria, for your outstanding service to PDMA as a Board member and many years in a variety of other capacities to the benefit of the PDMA academic community and PDMA at large!
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Are you looking to become more
involved in PDMA?
We’re looking for you!
We want to expand kHUB’s network of curators/editorial board. PDMA kHUB is the centralized digital content management and access platform for the extensive PDMA Body of Knowledge. The kHUB editorial board is responsible for content aggregation, curation, and creation for key areas such as Strategy, Portfolio Management, Product Innovation Process, Product Design & Development Tools, Market Research in Product Innovation, Culture, Teams & Leadership, Product Innovation Management.
kHUB offers easy access and brings to life PDMA thought leadership in a way that showcases our unique expertise and enduring impact for product development and innovation management professionals throughout their careers.
Fill out this form and/or contact Sue Burek, kHUB administrator (sburek@pdma.org, 585-314-4611)
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PARTNER EVENT
PMI's Virtual Experience Series is Back!
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Join us on 1 December
Reunite & Reemerge
Together.
As we navigate a world defined by challenge and change, we can embrace the opportunity to Make Reality in new and exciting ways. Join us during PMI's Virtual Experience Series 2022 to find out more!
The PMI Global Community of changemakers will come together for these inspiring, engaging, and educational virtual events in 2022. Each one will offer value for project pros, emerging professionals, and rising leaders looking to begin their career in project management.
REGISTER TODAY
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