Stage-Gate, Inc. Announces Conferaction Seminars Qualify for New Product Development Professional (NPDP) Certification Renewal

Stage-Gate, Inc., a member company of the Product Development Institute, today announced that its complete line of 2004 Conferaction Seminars provide Professional Development Hours (PDHs) to renew New Product Development Professional (NPDP) certification. The certification is conferred by the Product Development Management Association (PDMA) and confirms mastery of new product development principles and best practices.

ANCASTER, ONTARIO, CANADA (PRWEB) February 23, 2004 ---Stage-Gate, Inc., a member company of the Product Development Institute, today announced that its complete line of Conferaction Seminars provide Professional Development Hours (PDHs) to renew New Product Development Professional (NPDP) certification. The certification is conferred by the Product Development Management Association (PDMA) and confirms mastery of new product development principles and best practices.

Stage-Gate Inc. makes it easy to actively pursue additional new product development knowledge or to simply refresh your existing knowledge while obtaining the required PDHs. Conferaction seminars are based on the extensive and current research of the Gurus of NPD, Drs. Cooper and Edgett, and effectively blend the research with a hands on approach. This provides attendees with concrete action plans that can be effectively implemented on the return to their organization with immediate results. Stage-Gate Inc. has a seminar for every facet of new product development and continues to add new seminars to meet the growing challenges faced by new product development professionals. Stage-Gate Inc. even offers special pricing for block seat purchases.

Listed below is the lineup of seminars for the first 6 months of 2004 along with PDHs for each Seminar (you receive 1 PDH for every seminar hour) and attendees are provided certificates as evidence of completion.

March 2         Clearwater, FA
Winning at New Products:
Achieving Profits and Performance (7 PDHs)

March 3-4        Clearwater, FA
Successfully Implementing the Stage-Gate Process:
The Critical challenge (13 PDHs)

April 20-22     Atlanta, GA
New Product Portfolio Management:
The Blueprint for Effective Project Prioritization and Selection (22 PDHs)

June 9-10         Toronto, ON
Winning at New Products:
Achieving Profits and Performance through Leadership (14 PDHs)

For more information or to register, please contact Michael Booker, NPDP Manager of Conferaction Seminars at Michael.Booker@Stage-Gate.com or (905) 304-8797. Additionally, you can click on the following hyperlink to enter the Conferaction web page http://www.stage-gate.com/seminars.html.

About PDMA

Founded in 1976, PDMA is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization. About 80% of its members are corporate practitioners of new product development, with the remaining 20% split evenly between academics and service providers.

PDMA's mission is to improve the effectiveness of people engaged in developing and managing new products - both new manufactured goods and new services. This mission includes facilitating the generation of new information, helping convert this information into knowledge which is in a usable format, and making this new knowledge broadly available to those who might benefit from it. A basic tenet of the Association is that enhanced product innovation represents a desirable and necessary economic goal for firms that wish to achieve and retain a profitable competitive advantage in the long term.

About Stage-Gate, Inc.

Stage-Gate, Inc. is dedicated to providing best-in-class products and services to help companies develop their new products more quickly, cost-effectively and successfully.

Stage-Gate, Inc. is a member company of the Product Development Institute Inc., which was founded by Drs. Robert G. Cooper and Scott J. Edgett, the worlds foremost experts in New Product Development.

Through its close working relationship with the Product Development Institute, Stage-Gate Inc. has access to some of the worlds most comprehensive research into best practices in NPD. This research has already led to some of the most important discoveries in the field; such as, Stage-Gate®, the NewProdStudies, and the concept of Portfolio Management as applied to NPD.

For more information, please visit www.stage-gate.com or contact:

Nathan Smith
Stage-Gate, Inc
Tel: +1 905 304 8797
nathan.smith@stage-gate.com