New Seminar: Pathways to Profitable Innovation

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ANCASTER, ONTARIO, CANADA – July 18, 2005 - The Product Development Institute today announced the first offering of “Pathways to Profitable Innovation: Getting the Results You Want from Your Business’s Product Innovation Efforts”, a groundbreaking new Conferaction Seminar in North America.

This Seminar is designed for Executives and Senior Managers who want to maximize their return on innovation by fine-tuning their company’s working methods using the Innovation Diamond™. The Seminar will examine the key drivers of successful product innovation, the importance of a product innovation strategy and portfolio management, how to foster a culture for innovation, and much more.

“Becoming proficient in all four areas of the Innovation Diamond is a challenge at many companies today”, says Dr. Scott Edgett. “Dr. Robert Cooper provides a wealth of proven approaches and practices that can help companies take innovation performance to the next level”.

For information on this conference and other events, visit http://www.prod-dev.com/conferences.shtml

About Product Development Institute
ProdProduct Development Institute (www.prod-dev.com) is dedicated to helping companies improve their approach to new product development and portfolio management. Led by internationally recognized experts in the field of product development, Drs. Robert Cooper and Scott Edgett, PDI provides Executives and Managers with a wide range of products and services aimed at improving companies' new product success rates. Cooper and Edgett have worked with more than 800 businesses, including most Fortune 500 companies, and have compiled the largest knowledge-base on Product Development best-practices in the world.