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Renewing Your PDMA Membership?

We are working hard to make your PDMA membership more valuable.   We have purused more tangible benefits such as a free subscription to Fast Company, discounts on Business Week subscriptions and He...
Categories: Uncategorized

The Midas Touch? Market Realities and the iPhone

It's great that the new Apple iPhone has 3G, GPS and a $199 price tag.  Yet to me that's not nearly as interesting as what has changed with Apple's business model.  It was less than a year ago w...
Categories: Product Design

A Falling Out Between Apple and Intel? [May 2008 Re-post]

I remember a few years ago when Apple announced that they would transition from the IBM PowerPC to Intel Core 2 processors.  This was a major strategic shift for Apple and based on the quarterly ear...
Categories: Product Design

Innovating When the Chips are Down

I have always been a proponent of companies not cutting their budgets on innovation during market downturns.  Cost cutting can only go so far and companies who do it repeatedly without developing ...
Categories: NPD - General

Organizational Deja Vu?

The first PDMA/IIR Corporate Portfolio Management Conference in Clearwater, Florida in February had speakers from the financial services, medical device, computer, and consumer industries sharing thei...

Taking Green Product Development Personally

In many ways, sustainability, global warming, and the rise of China's economic growth created a perfect storm in 2007. Whether it's just a perfect storm or a sea change that will permanently affect t...

Apple vs Microsoft: Peaceful co-existence?

I often laugh in amusement at the Apple commercials that make a parody of Microsoft software. I'm not laughing anymore. I recently bought a new Lenovo X61s laptop with Windows Vista and Office 2007 ...
Categories: NPD - General, Strategy

PDMA 2006 - Experiencing the PDMA Experience in Track 3

Got up this morning to workout at the hotel gym.  Did a quick 30 minute cardio which was refreshing.  Since today was the last day of the conference I expected things to start winding down.  Had a ...

PDMA 2006 - It’s Show Time!!!

I couldn’t sleep because of all the stuff going on today.  My goal today is to make sure we have a great Track 3 session today and that I don’t get stumped during my panel discussion (a little ne...

PDMA 2006 - Networking on Steroids

Day 2 turned out to be a crazy day full of surprises.  I slept in because after I wrote yesterday’s blog I sneaked into the Hotlanta dance contest in the Waverly Hotel (I know of bunch of you did t...
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