Dr. Scott Edgett to Keynote Atlanta Georgia PDMA Event

ANCASTER, ONTARIO, CANADA – August 19, 2005 - The Product Development Institute, today announced that Dr. Scott Edgett, CEO and co-founder of the Product Development Institute and Stage-Gate, Inc., will be Keynote Speaker at the upcoming Georgia PDMA Chapter Annual Summit on September 22nd , in Atlanta.

Dr. Edgett will address the topic of Strategic Alignment of Portfolio Management.
Top organizations are integrating innovation strategy, portfolio management and new product development into a seamless process. Dr. Edgett shows how leading companies are using portfolio management to link strategy with pipeline management and how they are using portfolio management to balance their resources and pipeline. This discussion centers on key areas of the Innovation Diamond™. The Diamond represents the relationship between innovation strategy, resource planning, project selection and the innovation process.

“ This is a rare opportunity to hear the world’s expert on Product Innovation and Portfolio Management at virtually no cost”, says Michel Delifer, Stage-Gate Inc.’s VP of Solutions. “No one in the Southeastern U.S. who considers product innovation and portfolio management an important part of their business success should miss this event”.

Dr. Edgett is an internationally recognized expert in new product development and portfolio management. He has co-authored five books and published more than 60 academic articles and papers. He is a former Marketing Professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.

About Product Development Institute
Product 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.

For further information contact:
Valerie Sather, Innovation Product Specialist
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