NPDP

New Product Development Professional (NPDP)

Certified by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), New Product Development Professionals (NPDPs) demonstrate education, knowledge, and experience within the field of innovation. NPDPs require 60 professional development hours (PDH) during each three (3) year period.

Please browse courses below to start earning PDHs. We also offer NPDP workshops – check the schedule for our next available classroom course.

Study. Learn. Earn. Simple.

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Three Reasons You Need Design Thinking

Today’s world is hyper-competitive. There are fewer jobs, more talent, and higher needs. Companies compete with products in their own industries, yet new categories offer novel solutions to existing customers. Schools and churches even limit the number of kids they can accept into various sports and extra-curricular programs. To the jaded observer, it seems that… Read More >

Using Design Thinking to Manage Your Time

A recent article in Harvard Business Review details that CEOs work, on average, 9.7 hours per day, conduct business on about 80% of weekend days, and work for almost 3 hours per day on 70% of their vacation days (1). Yet, numerous other publications describe burnout as a major factor in declining performance of all workers. Burnout results… Read More >

Collaboration as Cooperation

About a year ago, I took a lovely vacation in Quebec. The scenery along the Saint Lawrence seaway and the Saguenay Fjord is spectacular! I hiked 43 km (about 27 miles) at three separate parks and was rewarded with outstanding vistas (and dozens of mosquito bites). Quebec is a 95%+ French-speaking province in Canada. I don’t speak… Read More >