ANCASTER, ONTARIO, CANADA – Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - The Product Development Institute, announced today that it is introducing a ground-breaking seminar to their suite of unparalleled New Product Development Conferaction Seminars in September 2004.  The seminar entitled ‘Leading Product Innovation and Technology Strategy: Creating Shareholder Value through Innovation’ is focused on enabling executives to realize organic growth results for their company through an effective and high quality Product Innovation and Technology Strategy. 

Innovation has been identified as an organization-wide priority.  The impact for those organizations committed to innovation is significant.  Fundamental to innovation is an inspiring Product Innovation and Technology Strategy.  Several noted research studies on NPD performance, including the recent APQC[i]Best Practices in Product Innovation, validate the vital role that Product Innovation and Technology Strategy plays in facilitating organizations to achieve their business’s organic growth goals.  In turbulent economic times, ensuring maximum value and outcomes from your investment is of paramount importance to executives – especially those responsible for Research and New Product Development, an area that is too often one of the first to experience budget cuts.  

"This seminar is intense and highly focused. We draw extremely high quality participants from some of the best performing and innovative companies from around the world which gives participants an opportunity not only to learn from Stage-Gate, Inc. NPD Gurus and Experts but to learn from each other as well", says Michelle Jones, Stage-Gate Inc.’s VP of Product Management.  

For information on this seminar and others, visit www.prod-dev.com/conferences.shtml

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.