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New Product Development (NPD)
Professional Certification Scheme
Why Should I want it?
There are benefits for you, the individual, and your company. You will benefit from more education,
skills and knowledge to assist you to develop personally; these are exam tested. In addition there will be invitations to join Best Practice study visits and benchmarking groups. This will improve your personal performance and effectiveness as well as giving your company more opportunities to benefit from better practices.
How do I get it?
Enrol for the 2-days training, submit your CV and personal experience history and pass the exam. You will then be a certified NPD Professional. This is maintained through completing 60 hours Continuing Professional Development (CPD) over a 3-year period leading to re-certification. The price included the training, examination fee and one years PDMA membership.
Product Development and Management.
Association
What is it?
CforC has been appointed as Northern Ireland branch of of the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Product Development Managers Association (PDMA) of USA. Full details to be found at: http://www.pdma.org
The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) is the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals. Our mission is to improve the effectiveness of individuals and organizations in product development and management. This is accomplished by providing resources for professional development, information, collaboration and promotion of new product development and management.
The development of new products and services involves an integrated set of unique activities. PDMA is the only organization that focuses on addressing this challenge by providing the following opportunities for professional development, education, experience, networking and recognition.
Why Should I want it?
- Reduced fees for all PDMA International Conferences and meetings
- A subscription to Visions Magazine, the award winning quarterly magazine that features articles for practitioners with case studies, descriptions of tools and corporate processes, and information for members.
- A subscription to the Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM), the leading professional journal devoted to new products, published six times a year (on-line access only for student memberships)
- Complete access to he Members Only section of the PDMA website, with an online Membership Directory, full-text articles from JPIM.
- Networking opportunities with other NPD professionals through local Chapters affiliation.
- A discounted fee for the New Product development professional Certification application.
- Information on the latest tools, processes and best practices of product development.
- Complete access to all levels of the PDMA Body of knowledge, a disciplined, organized and thorough distillation of new product development concepts, research and best practices.
- Five free job postings in the PDMA Yellow Pages area on the website, where suppliers of NPD-related products and services may reach thousands of potential customers each month.
Your company will benefit from exposure to NPD Global Best Practices, early access to research and leading edge thinking and opportunities for benchmarking. This will ensure that your company's NPD people are among the best informed in the world. It is bringing global Best Practice to Northern Ireland.
To discuss the role of PDMA in Northern Ireland, Ireland or the UK, please contact Adrian Gundy of Centre for Competitiveness 028 9073 7950 or via e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
