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Product Development Management Associations Carolinas Chapter Hosts...



The Carolinas Chapter of the Product Development & Management Association (PDMA) will hold a professional development and networking event on Thursday, October 25. The event will provide valuable networking opportunities and help participants improve their product and service pricing practices. The session will be led by Jeff Dupuie, Managing Director of Oakstone Partners.



Through a presentation entitled "How to Price your New Product - Understanding Customer Value", Jeff provide an overview of the Customer Value Model approach used by leading companies, such as GE, to better understand the value that their products & services bring to their customers, and demonstrate its use to pricing.



The seminar will be held Thursday, October 25 at MCNC Auditorium, located at 3021 Cornwallis Road in Research Triangle Park. Registration and networking will begin at 6:00 p.m., and the seminar will run from 6:45 to 8:00 p.m. The cost is $20 for PDMA members, $30 for non-members and $15 for students. Pizza and drinks will be served. Attendees are encouraged to register online at http://pdmaoct.eventbrite.com Pre-registration is not required, but walk-ins will be charged an additional $10 and asked to pay by check.



"We are excited to have Jeff as a speaker, said Montie Roland, President of the PDMA Carolinas. "Many firms do not understand the value that their products, or services, bring to their customers, and most customers do not understand the value these products bring to them. As a result there's often a gap in pricing."Those who attend will learn keys to understanding the value their products bring to their customers, how to quantify the information, and how to use customer value model approach to price new products."



Speaker Background


Jeff Dupuie is a Managing Director of OakStone Partners, a local management consulting firm. He has over 15 years experience in management, consulting, and engineering roles. Prior to OakStone, Jeff served as a key member with BearingPoint's turn-around consulting unit. Prior to that, he served as a Principal with PRTM's product commercialization unit, leading their Portfolio and Resource Management practices. In industry, he has held commercialization and operations roles with The Ford Motor Company and with Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector. Jeff earned the Henry Ford Technology Award for outstanding technical achievement while at Ford. Jeff has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and an MBA, both from the University of Michigan.



About PDMA


The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) is the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals. For more information about PDMA, visit www.pdma.org. For more information about the Carolinas Chapter, call (919) 481-1845, email Montie Roland at montie@montie.com or visit www.pdma.org/carolinas.






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