Siemens PLM Software, a division of Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D), is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 4.3 million licensed seats and 47,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software’s open enterprise solutions enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate through global innovation networks to deliver world-class products and services. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/ugs.
Founded in 1972, SAP (www.sap.com) has a rich history of innovation and growth that has made the company a true industry leader, providing high-level customer support and services. With more than 39,000 customers, it's no wonder SAP is the recognized leader in collaborative business software. SAP has leveraged its extensive experience to deliver the SAP(TM) Business Suite, the definitive family of business solutions for today's economy. SAP Business Suite allows employees, customers, and business partners to work together successfully -- anywhere, anytime.
Accept software helps companies create tomorrow’s winning products and drive sustained competitive advantage. We provide the industry’s first innovation management solution that enables companies to know their market, align market needs with corporate strategy, product strategy and plans, and drive efficient and effective execution of those strategies and plans.
Our innovation management solution is unique because it combines three modular yet integrated capabilities-
- Voice of the Market
- Portfolio Planning and Management
- Product Planning and Development
-all integrated with an innovation business process, enterprise reporting, and role-based dashboards to create a single system of record that provides visibility and control throughout the entire process.
With Accept, companies increase new product revenue, drive competitive advantage, maximize R&D investment, and improve productivity.
Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution is an end-to-end collaborative project and portfolio management environment that helps your organization gain visibility, insight, and control by enhancing decision making, improving alignment with the business strategy, maximizing resource utilization and measuring and increasing operational efficiency.
Project Solutions Group is a full-service project management consultancy and Microsoft certified partner specializing in project and portfolio management strategy, consulting, training and systems implementation. PSG is a global Registered Educational Provider with the Project Management Institute (PMI), a training affiliate with the University of Wisconsin’s Executive Education Center and a Certified Microsoft Partner for Microsoft Office Project Server and Project Portfolio Server. PSG is headquartered outside of Boston, MA and has offices in San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.psgus.com.
Developing the latest innovations in consumer product testing, Q Research Solutions, Inc. provides the best in customized sensory and market research solutions. Since 1983, QRS has provided Fortune 500 companies with a competitive edge through a combination of their distinctive facilities, proprietary technology, industry leading products and services and unsurpassed level of client service.
FeaturePlan is requirements management software built for software product management. It takes market information and turns it into product requirements, which helps companies build products that are better aligned with customer needs - as well as implement a more efficient product management process in the organization.
For more than 30 years, APQC has worked with organizations across all industries to find practical, cost-effective solutions to drive productivity and quality improvement. We are a member-based nonprofit currently serving more than 500 organizations in all sectors of business, education, and government. Since 1977, APQC's research has enabled organizations to add millions of dollars to their bottom lines by implementing process changes based on best practices information. For more information, visit www.apqc.org or call 800.776.9676 or 1.713.681.4020.
Leading organizations have utilized Strategyn's breakthrough integrated innovation program and Outcome-Driven Innovation® methodology for over 15 years to successfully generate organic growth through product, service, and operational innovation. Strategyn's dynamic program includes consulting and mentoring services, education and training, along with an extensive set of Web-based tools, all of which enable companies to overcome organizational barriers to success and to create a culture of innovation.
Strategyn’s methodology has been adopted by top global organizations, been voted one of the best business ideas by Harvard Business Review, and acknowledged by thought leader Clayton Christensen in his bestselling work The Innovator's Solution. "Strategyn’s outcome-driven programs bring discipline and predictability to the often random process of innovation." - Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School
Since 1976,
PRTM has created a competitive advantage for its clients by changing the way companies operate. PRTM management consultants work with senior executives to develop and implement innovative operational strategies that deliver breakthrough results. The firm is a leader in operational strategy, supply chain, product development, and customer management. PRTM has 16 offices worldwide and serves major industry and government sectors.
Applied Marketing Science is one of the world’s leading Voice of the Customer consulting firms. Since our founding in 1989, AMS has helped hundreds of clients better understand the needs of their customers and translate those needs into improved product and service designs. Our proprietary VOCALYST® system allows customers to systematically articulate, structure, and prioritize their wants and needs in support of new product and service development. Based on pioneering methodological research conducted at the MIT Sloan School of Management, VOCALYST® utilizes empirically proven "best practices" to gather and structure Voice of the Customer data.
Blackwell Publishing is a proud partner of the PDMA, the publisher of the Journal of Product Innovation Management and a leading publisher of books and journals in the fields of business, management and technology.
Dilts Ventures is an Innovation Accelerator Company™ which creates sustainable innovation strategies based on an entrepreneurial approach. Our leading-edge programs and services leverage our Success Factor Modeling™ process which captures the key attributes of successful entrepreneurs and models a combination of strategic business and behavioral best practices. We incorporate these strategies into powerful tools which we teach to our clients.
Our expertise in managing a leading angel investor network provides us with valuable insights into the open market process for effectively identifying, funding and scaling innovation. We model, simulate and import this entrepreneurial ecosystem into large corporate environments to create Strategic Innovation Centers™ which dramatically accelerate innovation for our clients.
For years, Ethnographic Research, Inc. has been a forerunner in the use of ethnography in business settings, producing trustworthy and actionable findings for its clients. Ethnographic Research, Inc. is comprised of a group of proud, field-worn sociologists and anthropologists dedicated to the advancement of the methods and approaches used by ethnographers.
The GenSight® Group has pioneered a new solution for Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPfM). The GenSight® breakthrough enables large enterprises to address complex problems of NPD strategic choice that previously were too difficult to structure and solve. Applications include Strategic Portfolio Selection, Portfolio Performance Management, Resource Management and Work-Flow Management.
The GenSight® Group provides a complete solution comprising best-in-class Portfolio Optimisation Software, Business Process Design and Client-specific Configuration and Integration.
Through proven processes and advanced technology, The GenSight® Group helps clients align strategy with the selection and execution of the NP pipeline at all levels of the organization. The GenSight® Group have offices in London, UK and Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Ideas To Go is a creative process consulting firm that specializes in using the voice of the customer to drive new product development, product naming, promotions and communications projects. Using our Concentrated Concept Development® process, we significantly accelerate concept development with articulate Creative Consumers® associates and cutting-edge technology such as e-deation® services.
Imaginatik is the leading provider of Idea Management software and processes, with global clients in consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, finance, chemicals, manufacturing and government. We deliver high quality products and services, developed through an ongoing commitment to research in innovation.
Innovare focuses the creativity in your organization and inspires innovation. We provide:
- Innovation Process Consulting & Training - A systematic front end for creating innovation strategy and new product concepts
- Creative Team Facilitation - Inspiring new ideas and shaping ideas into viable solutions
- Custom Market Research - Ethnographic, voice of the customer, and more, creating insights that guide innovation
We help our clients build the knowledge, process, climate, and opportunity to drive business growth through innovation.
Innovation Focus is a nationally recognized consulting firm specializing in new product, service, and business development. Our extensive qualitative research experience and trademarked programs for idea and concept generation combine to help our clients find new business opportunities and create new cutting edge products. From ethnographic research and expert interviews to concept generation and model building, Innovation Focus will design and facilitate a program from customer to concept.
Invention Machine Corporation is the leading provider of solutions that enable global manufacturers to accelerate and expand idea generation, increasing innovation and accelerating time to market of higher quality products. More than 1200 leading manufacturers use Invention Machine's solutions to raise returns on their R&D investments, improve design and production processes across the product lifecycle, and continually fuel product pipelines with higher-quality, more cost-effective and more competitively differentiated products.
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Invention Machine has offices in the UK, France, Germany and Japan and distribution partners throughout Europe and Asia-Pacific. Invention Machine supports Global 2000 customers worldwide including Delphi, HP, NEC, Northrop Grumman, Renault, Samsung, Saipem, Shell, ST Microelectronics, and Whirlpool. For additional information, please visit www.invention-machine.com.
Invetech works with clients to develop innovative new products through world class concept generation, design and engineering.
Kalypso is a consulting firm serving the world's most innovative companies. The firm helps clients to deliver on the promise of innovation. Service offerings encompass all aspects of innovation including product strategy, development, introduction, commercialization, lifecycle management, and PLM systems selection and implementation. In addition to the firm's deep industry, technology and operational expertise, Kalypso provides a flexible, collaborative approach to deliver unparalleled client satisfaction. To learn more, visit www.kalypso.com.
NP Learning, Inc. is the leading provider of new product development training based on the best practices as defined by PDMA and the NPDP certification content. We make sure your people understand and use best practices to eliminate mistakes, increase profits and enhance customer satisfaction. Go to www.nplearning.com for course syllabus, schedules and further information.
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Through our Innovate on Purpose™ approach OVO improves our clients' innovation capabilities by evaluating trends, facilitating ideation and defining innovation processes to capture, manage and evaluate ideas, increasing revenue and organic growth and cutting time to market. OVO builds software applications to enable innovation processes and improve collaboration.
Planisware provides the enterprise Project and Portfolio Management software solution OPX2. Our software, OPX2, has assisted organizations to achieve increased productivity by providing timely project and portfolio information throughout the enterprise. OPX2 integrates scheduling, resource, cost and Portfolio Management into a comprehensive system. This allows initiatives to be identified, prioritized and decisions communicated efficiently throughout the entire lifecycle in the New Product Development organization.
Portfolio DecisionWare, based in New York City, helps product development organizations to improve portfolio management operations through the alignment of skilled and non-labor resource inventories with business priorities. PDW Portfolio™ is a high impact resource management application that uses familiar Microsoft® Excel™ views for data input and analysis. As a result, PDW Portfolio™ is easier to learn and requires less administrative overhead than alternative solutions. Portfolio DecisionWare's customers include Motorola, Toyota, Medtronic, HP, Intel, RCI/Cendant, Health-Partners and Itron. To learn more about Portfolio DecisionWare's High Value / Low Risk approach to Portfolio Resource Management, please visit us online at www.pdware.com.
Sagentia is a global technology management and product development company. Established in 1986, our unwavering commitment to innovation has led to the launch of new technologies, services and breakthrough products that have helped change the basis of competition for our clients.
We operate in six global market sectors: chemicals, materials & energy, consumer products, industrial products, medical, public sector, telecom and media. In each of these we assist business leaders and policy makers to create strategies for technology, innovation and growth. Sagentia employs more than 200 staff and has offices in six locations worldwide.
Sopheon provides software and services that increase revenues and profits from product innovation. It offers the industry's only end-to-end strategic product planning system. Vision Strategist™ allows companies to visualize and intelligently chart the future of products and technologies. Accolade® automates product development and the management of product portfolios. Sopheon's solutions are used by industry leaders throughout the world, including BASF, Corning, Electrolux, Honeywell, Motorola, Parker Hannifin, SABMiller and Timex.
www.sopheon.com
Stage-Gate Inc. helps companies achieve growth through successful product innovation. Our access to the best practices, databases and research of internationally recognized thought leaders, Dr. Robert G. Cooper and Dr. Scott J. Edgett, enables us to create high quality products and services designed to achieve substantial business impact.
Telelogic® is a leading global provider of solutions for automating and supporting best practices across the enterprise - from powerful modeling of business processes and enterprise architectures to requirements-driven development of advanced systems and software.
Telelogic Focal Point™ helps product managers deliver customer value from product concept to delivery. With superior product information management, analytics and visualization capabilities, Focal Point improves customer value and product fit by eliminating the emotion, guesswork and rework often associated with uninformed decision-making.
Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic has operations in 20 countries worldwide.
WinOvationsSM NBD system: encompasses significant breakthroughs in several areas:
- Personnel selection, (utilizing the Rainmaker-IndexSM)
- Training & coaching
- The early-stages of WinOvations' NBD Process, features a non-linear approach that Morphs starting ideas into winners.
Used at the organizational level, we have quantified how to quickly change a corporate culture into a more innovative, effective and profitable organization.
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