Product development is a continuous cycle that depends upon effective analysis and judgments about which concepts to advance and which to kill, which products to fund and what types and level of resources to invest. Best-practice companies have proven that you can achieve peak performance from your product-development investments when you find answers to those strategic questions early in the process.

These one-hour, online events feature experts and leading practitioners sharing process knowledge and practical advice about ways to improve your product development performance and results.

Through these sessions, you'll benefit from:

• Principles to help you raise the return on innovation
• Insight on improving collaboration within dispersed product-development teams
• Metrics used to measure value, risk and reward of product development effort
• Strategies to balance product-selection decisions with time-to-market pressures

These free, one-hour sessions will begin at 8.00am Pacific - 10.00 am Central - 11.00 am Eastern - 16.00 UK - 17.00 MEZ. You can participate conveniently from your desk by receiving the audio and video through your personal computer or by viewing the media presentation via the internet and the audio portion by telephone.

Events Calendar:

- 26 March Thorough, Cost-Effective Methods for Evaluating Ideas
- 15 April Remote Collaboration: An Industry Research Study
- 29 April Metrics: Key Principles for Measuring Your PD Effort
- 15 May Raising Your Returns on Innovation
- 05 June Taking Time to Market Beyond Hype

About Us

Sopheon is an international provider of software tools, experts and content that help organizations improve the business impact of innovation and product development. Sopheon serves nearly half of the technology-driven companies on the Fortune 500, enabling higher, faster return on innovation and product development investments through technology and human-based decision support.

Sopheon Accolade^® for product development provides a total solution to automate your product development process and measure the potential success of projects in your pipeline. Accolade delivers world-class decision support and easy-to-use process management capabilities enabling product-development organizations to facilitate:

• Aligning portfolio with strategy
• Identifying new product winners early in the cycle
• Increasing team efficiency
• Ensuring adherence to best practices
• Integrating best-practice expertise

Sopheon Accolade enables product development teams to more efficiently and cost-effectively bring new products to market.

Sopheon US 2850 Metro Drive Minneapolis, MN 55425 USA tel:+1 952-851-7500 fax:+1 952-851-7744 info_us@sopheon.com

Sopheon UK Stirling House, Stirling Rd Surrey Research Park Guildford, Surrey GU2 7RF UK tel:+44 (0) 1483 883 000 fax:+44 (0) 1483 883 050 info_uk@sopheon.com

Sopheon NL "De Gelder" A.J. Ernststraat 595-G 1082 LD Amsterdam The Netherlands tel:+31 (0) 20 301 3900 fax:+31 (0) 20 301 3999 info_nl@sopheon.com

Sopheon DE Industriepark Höchst, F821 D-65926 Frankfurt a.m. Germany tel:+49 (0)69 305-16662 fax:+49 (0)69 305-29770 info@sopheon.de

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