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September 17, 2020
 
 

PDMA is proud to recognize the 2020 OCI Award Winners

The 2020 OCI Award Winners are—

  • Church & Dwight, a manufacturer of household and personal care products based in Ewing, NJ., has built a collaborative culture which consistently delivers significant innovations to the categories in which it competes.
  • Medtronic, a medical technology, services and solutions company based in Dublin, Ireland and has operational headquarters in Minneapolis, MN, has demonstrated sustained innovation across the continuum of healthcare to deliver better patient outcomes.

Due to the cancellation of the in person PDMA 2020 Annual Conference the OCI Winners will present the practices and processes which have contributed to their innovation success during webcasts on the following dates—

  • Church & Dwight — Thursday, October 1, at 1P EDT
  • Medtronic — Thursday, November 5, at 1P EST

During the webcasts attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the innovation processes and practices instrumental to the success of Church & Dwight and Medtronic. We look forward to seeing you there!

PDMA Webcast: Category Leading TSR through Innovation at Church & Dwight

When:
Thursday, October 1, 2020
12PM CT / 1PM ET

Description
2020 Outstanding Corporate Innovator award winner Church & Dwight has recently completed a remarkable decade-long run of 20% annual Total Shareholder Return. This easily leads the Consumer Package Goods industry, and bests the S&P by 3x during the same time period. Given that 50% of their organic growth comes from new products, innovation is clearly a key driver in their on-going business success.

In this webinar, Church & Dwight will share their best practices for sustaining a culture of innovation while competing against much larger players in mature categories. Specifically, Church & Dwight created an unprecedented premium tier in the commodity cat litter market, anchored by their Clump & Seal family of brands. Similarly, they grew their Fabric Care business 2x the industry average leveraging breakthrough odor control technologies. This is a company that makes it a priority to understand the equity of its Brands, and supercharging them for growth regardless of whether they are longstanding company brands or more recent acquisitions.

Church & Dwight has many innovation best practices that will be of high interest to the PDMA audience across multiple industries, including the use of “Drill Sites” for the Front End of Innovation, an acquire-and-leverage approach to accelerating business growth in mature categories, on-line consumer research and early market testing, and their FutureWorks and SPRINT processes for assessing the potential of new product platforms.

Join us as we celebrate Church & Dwight’s OCI award, and take advantage of the unique opportunity to 'look under the hood' of a proven corporate innovator. You’ll be sure to discover best practices for driving innovation success within your own organization.

PDMA Webcast: Beyond Methodologies

When:
Thursday, October 15, 2020
11AM CT / 12PM ET

Description
Have you or your teams ever faced these questions, "Which agile methodology should I choose?", "I am doing the methodology, right?" "Why isn't the rest of the organization doing the same agile?", maybe even "Why isn't agile sticking?" If so, then this webcast is for you. We'll discuss creating a common language and approach to work that successfully helps leaders, managers, and developers to unlock their potential and the potential of an entire organization, helping you to build and deliver products that your customers will love. 

First Annual Global Student Innovation Challenge

Competition Progress

What: A submission of an original concept for a product, service, software, or a combination of the three, detailing the unique value proposition, evidence of demand, and mockup or embodiment of the concept.

By the numbers:

  • 87 students
  • 27 teams
  • 12 universities
  • 6 countries
  • 3 finalist teams

The finalists are being showcased as part of PDMA’s Virtual Mini Conference on Thursday, Sept 17, and will share $5000 in prize money.

Check out kHUB - PDMA's  Online Content Resource

The most accessed kHUB content this month was the recording of the August online event presented by PDMA’s Egypt Chapter. The Egypt Chapter board members shared their experience in:

  • Building the community of innovators that is now PDMA Egypt Chapter
  • What is NPD (New Product Development)
  • Why develop new products
  • Why products fail while others succeed.

We regularly add content to kHUB, and would love your ideas, articles, discussions, comments, blog & podcast recommendations.  You can earn PDHs by submitting original articles we publish in kHUB. We’re also looking for a few people to join our kHUB curator team. Are you passionate about product management and development knowledge and good practice activities?  Do you have time and interest to review articles, blogs, podcasts? Are you interested in joining a fun, hardworking, virtual global team to discuss, edit, curate, and solicit content for kHUB? Check out this volunteer opportunity on the PDMA website, or contact us at khub@pdma.org for more details!

kHUB is organized into seven sections following the PDMA Body of Knowledge framework.  Content and resources are classified into one or more of the following sections:  Strategy, Portfolio Management, Product Innovation Process, Product Design & Development Tools, Market Research in Product Innovation, Culture, Teams & Leadership, and Product Innovation Management - plus an additional section Innovators Respond to World Events-a section where we post content related to crises, world events and social justice.

As the world's foremost professional association for product management, development, and innovation professionals: practitioners, academics and service providers, our core value is career-advancing knowledge and resources, founded on sound academic research and proven practical application. kHUB facilitates the creation and exchange of product management, development and innovation knowledge and best practices, that provides the basis for individual professional development and organizational innovation, leading to a competitive edge. Learn how to engage today.


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Upcoming Chapter  Events
PHILADELPHIA

PDMA Philadelphia: Innovation on a Burning Platform

Thursday, September 24, 2020
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm (EDT)

Virtual
PDH Credit: 1


Learn More


ATLANTA

PDMA Atlanta Café: Why Innovation Problems Take Too Long & How to Accelerate Them
Friday, September 25, 2020

11:00 am – 12:00 pm (EDT)
Virtual
PDH Credit: 1


Learn More

PERU

PDMA Peru: ProductX to Reactivate with Innovations
October 6, 2020 – November 17, 2020
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (Peru Time / Central Time)
Virtual
PDH Credit: 1.5 per session

Learn More
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Academic Members

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Professional Members

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Xiaoyun Zheng
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