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In this Issue:
NEWS
Is your company brand associated with innovation?
Adept Award
The 2009 Location Innovation Awards 'Get Somewhere'
Selecon + Philips
EVENTS
Next Auckland Networking Event
2009 Annual PDMA Conference
Invitation to TechNZ Free Survive and Thrive through Innovation
INNOVATIONZ Forum: The Innovation Journey
PwC New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards
ARTICLES
Articles from PDMA
TIME's Best Inventions of 2008
Bronwyn Dilley: Bioeconomy seen as key to future success
R&D spending in a slump
Campbell Soup Co: Encouraging innovation from outside
BLOG
Portfolio Management - Great effort, wrong direction!!
Implementation of NPD Best-Practices
4th year product development projects start at Massey
Duplicity
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Issue 4 - April 2009
Bye Summer - Hello Winter!
Hi
We hope this latest newsletter will help motivate you as we go into winter.
The next pdma-nz networking event is scheduled for Auckland on Tuesday 12th May - you'll see further details below in the events section of the newsletter. We hope to see a lot of you there!
We are always looking for contributions for the newsletter and blogs, so send us a note if you have something you think might be of interest.
pdma-nz team
Is your company brand associated with innovation?
 PDMA-NZ is offering a limited number of sponsorship opportunities to organisations and companies that value being associated with a professional network of people interested in new product development, process and service innovation. From local one-off events through to New Zealand-wide partnership there is a sponsorship package that might suit your company.
For more information, click here.
 Adept, a medical device design and manufacturing company based in Auckland, is offering $50,000 for the best idea that could make life better and solve a problem. The physical product idea must benefit humanity and must be able to be developed by Adept. Services to the value of $50,000 are up for grabs!
The 2009 Location Innovation Awards 'Get Somewhere'
 We mentioned this in the last newsletter that GeoSmart Maps Ltd was establishing the Location Innovation Awards, a competition to encourage people to come up with concepts and applications based on four categories; Social Networking, Proximity-based marketing, LBS Games and widgets for the AA Maps website.
Click here to hear about the winners.
 Selecon - A good kiwi company now under the banner of a huge multinational - Philips
Click here to read more.
Next Auckland Networking Event - Tuesday 12th May
 We are pleased to announce our next event for Auckland and the guest speaker, Dr Jeremy Hill, Chief Technology Officer, Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd.Jeremy will present an overview of Fonterra's research and development - its strategic direction, processes and resourcing.
For more details, click here.
2009 Annual PDMA Conference
PDMA has announced its upcoming 2009 Annual Conference.
You will find both professional inspiration, as well as continuing education that tackles innovation challenges and forges productive professional connections in a variety of constructs.
Invitation to TechNZ Free Survive and Thrive through Innovation
 Boost your research and development programme
Using research and development (R&D) to get an edge on the marketplace, is vital in a tough economic climate. Successful companies know that innovation is an essential part of keeping a business sustainable and competitive.
Enterprise North Shore and TechNZ invite you to a Survive and Thrive through Innovation half day workshop where you can learn practical skills to help your company develop new products during the downturn.
Click here for further details.
INNOVATIONZ Forum: The Innovation Journey
 INNOVATIONZ is running a series of workshops, organised into four episodes:
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WHY? [PREDICT]
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WHO? [PULL]
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HOW? [PUSH]
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WHAT? [PROCESS]
Click here for further details.
PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards
The finalists for the PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards have been announced.
The Gala Dinner is being held on Friday, 1st May at the Christchurch Convention Centre.
Click here for further details.
Here are a number of articles we have found that might be of interest. Do remember - if you come across any articles that the membership might be interested in, flick it our way and we'll include a link to it in the newsletters.
Remember that there are some interesting and useful articles from PDMA in its publications:
Click here for a run-down on some of the recent articles.
TIME's Best Inventions of 2008
From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world's first moving skyscraper — here are TIME's picks for the top innovations of 2008
Bronwyn Dilley: Bioeconomy seen as key to future success
Bronwyn Dilley in the New Zealand Herald wrote: "New Zealand's economy has been based on the production of agricultural commodities for the past 150 years. But in the recent past, even with our global scientific and technical leadership of the sector, it has not been enough."
Click here to continue reading.
Big Companies Invest to Grab Sales in Recovery; the iPod Lesson
The Wall Street Journal says that major U.S. companies are cutting jobs and wages. But many are still spending on innovation.
Wary of emerging from the recession with obsolete products, big U.S. companies spent nearly as much on research and development in the dismal last quarter of 2008 as they did a year earlier, even as their revenue fell 7.7%, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis
Click here to continue reading.
Campbell Soup Co: Encouraging innovation from outside
Campbell Soup Co has thrown the door open for anybody to make suggestions that will help business by unveiling its 'Ideas for Innovation' program. It is presented in the form of a website, on which budding inventors can submit ideas regarding any area of operations. This draws on the emerging 'crowd sourced' trend which promotes interactivity between manufacturer and consumer.
Click here to continue reading.
Portfolio Management - Great effort, wrong direction!!
Allan Anderson
Over recent years many companies have put a great deal of effort into getting their product development process right. For many, an emphasis on stage-gate, and the implementation of processes around it, has become synonymous with getting their product development right. But does doing your product development right, having all the right processes and practices in place, guarantee product development success.
Click here to continue reading.
Implementation of NPD Best-Practices
David Stokes
I have continued blogging on my experiences implementing NPD best-practices. Recent blog entries include:
I'll keep on blogging, but if you have any particular areas you would like me to cover, then let me know ( david.stokes@pdma-nz.org).
4th year product development projects start at Massey
Aruna Shekar
The new university year started a month ago and, at Massey University in the Bachelor of Engineering degree, the 4th year students, majoring in product development, have started their final year projects. This year we have 18 students.....
Click here to continue reading.
I recently went to see Duplicity at the movies and was pleasantly surprised it was a story all about product development!
Click here to continue reading.
We're only young, but we're growing and enthusiastic. Becoming a member of the PDMA (Product Development & Management Association of New Zealand) entitles members to a range of benefits including:
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favourable rates for overseas conferences and meetings of the international PDMA
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subscription to Vision magazine, an international quarterly featuring case studies
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networking with professionals and developers who will share your experiences
For more details, check out the membership page on our website: www.pdma-nz.org.
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