Nothing of value can be built without the right tools. And when you come to PDMA International Conference you get to take the tools home!

Information. Education. Experience.

Sourced from the PDMA’s series of ToolBooks, sessions were selected based on their relevance to all size organizations and their ability to deliver tools that can be immediately implemented.

Toolbook3 makes its debut at PDMA International Conference!

Who wouldn’t want to learn how to make better decisions, turn ideas into concepts or manage the pipeline...? There is no better way to improve your NPD process than to follow the Tool Story path at this year’s PDMA International Conference - Innovation Connection 2007.

Best-Practices for Your Organization

Spiraling Up the Portfolio Management Maturity Curve
Join this expert in the field of New Product Development as he shares ways to reinvigorate NPD efforts through intelligent portfolio management.

Paul O'Connor

Collaborative Development
Learn a proven system for team development that introduces specific milestones, tasks and deliverables as well as the most common pitfalls teams experience and take away the 10 key success factors for high performance teams.

Doug Peters

Turning Ideas into Concepts: Generating and Challenging Ideas
Shake up your thinking by being introduced to the Slingshot process. Learn how its been a successful and modified concept by several large companies.

Christopher W. Miller & Anne Orban

Turning Ideas into Concepts: Identifying and Developing Action Plans
Market Attack Team - Tools and Techniques for Identifying and Developing Action Plans for Large Opportunities to Markets Unknown to the Corporation.

Peter Koen

Technology Management Tools for Effective Decision-Making: Leveraging Strategic and Tactical Knowledge Assets
A key difference between winning and losing teams is that winners learn from their mistakes and stop repeating them. This presentation will examine how to leverage knowledge assets on both a strategic and tactical level.

Ken Bruss

Technology Management Tools for Effective Decision-Making: Applying the Right Level of Process Discipline
Review a series of six specific tools that have helped leading innovators to strike a balance between these extremes - enabling decision-making and effective management of early stage technology development projects without stifling the creative process.

Kevin Schwartz

IP in NPD: Strategic Management of IP to Boost Growth and Drive Profitability
Examine key strategies, tools and approaches for a systematic and comprehensive management of IP.

Sharad Rastogi

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