News Release
Dr. Scott Edgett to Keynote Atlanta Georgia PDMA Event
ANCASTER, ONTARIO, CANADA - August 19, 2005 - Stage-Gate Inc., a Member company of 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.
Delegates can register for this insightful talk online
at http://www.gapdma.org.
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