Attendees can learn about Kalypso’s approach to helping clients improve product development and innovation processes with PLM by stopping by the firm’s exhibit or visiting http://kalypso.com/plminnovation/.

WHAT:     PLM Innovation Congress 2012
WHEN:     February 22-23, 2012
WHO:       Kalypso
WHERE:  The Westin Grand Munich, Munich, Germany

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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“Gale has an outstanding track record of building profitable, leadership brands by turning consumer insights into successful and innovative commercial products,” said Mike Friedman, Kalypso partner and CPG practice lead. “We are excited to bring her deep consumer-led innovation experience to the community of Kalypso clients.”

Prior to joining Kalypso, Gale spent 26 years at Procter & Gamble with leadership positions in North America and around the world. Gale was part of one of the first global brand franchise teams at Procter & Gamble, developing principles for the Global Brand Franchise Leadership Model. She has a strong background in innovation strategy, front end of innovation, digital innovation and high performance teams.

Gale lives in the Cincinnati, Ohio area with her husband, Bob, and two children, John and Rachel.  She enjoys yoga, pilates, and walking. Gale holds a B.S. degree from Ohio Northern University.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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SAN FRANCISCO, California - Strategic partners Planisware, the leading global provider of world-class project & product portfolio management solutions, and Kalypso, the world’s premier innovation consulting firm, announced today that they have collaborated to integrate Kalypso’s proven innovation process management model and rapid deployment approach with Planisware’s flexible, industry-leading software platform. The combined offering, called Nova for PPM powered by Planisware, enables product-oriented organizations to quickly implement, adopt and execute successful practical portfolio management.

In accordance with Planisware’s FlexPace implementation methodology, an accelerated iterative approach that targets successful technology roll-out and strong user adoption, Nova for PPM powered by Planisware relies on a “visibility and value-first” approach to ensure the organization achieves rapid, tangible value from the portfolio and pipeline management discipline. This in turn creates a pull from the organization to sustain the process. The Nova for PPM model, pre-configured in Planisware, includes metrics, reporting, valuation techniques, business process flows and decision making structures for these capabilities. Once data and initial feedback have been incorporated and pipeline visibility has been established, the Nova for PPM deployment approach demonstrates value immediately through a pilot implementation process that validates governance, teams, and sustaining processes.

Throughout the process, Nova for PPM powered by Planisware provides recommended analysis, governance and business rules for portfolio management, enabling companies to monitor investments and align them with strategy, proactively manage budget and resource constraints, communicate strategic priorities and objectives, and focus on decisions. The end result is an organization empowered to make better portfolio management and project decisions - and users who are ready to use the system.   

“In today’s challenging economic climate, companies that desire to grow their businesses through innovation often find it difficult to do so, because they lack the capabilities or discipline to do it effectively,” said Pierre Demonsant, CEO and founder of Planisware. “By combining Kalypso’s leading business process framework with our award-winning platform, Nova for PPM powered by Planisware provides the business process guidance, the tools, and the streamlined methodology to help our customers maximize the value of their innovation portfolios.”

Added Noel Sobelman, Partner at Kalypso, “Increasing innovation mandates combined with decreasing or static product development budgets put pressure on firms to select winning investments and maximize R&D productivity with limited resources. The Nova for PPM model is based on our years of experience solving these issues, and when enabled with Planisware, offers a proven approach for improving innovation portfolio visibility and increasing pipeline value.”

Customers who deploy Nova for PPM powered by Planisware will work side-by-side with a team of experts from both Planisware and Kalypso, who configure the solution to meet their organization’s needs. For more information on Nova for PPM powered by Planisware, please call 888-752-6479 or visit www.planisware.com.

About Planisware™

Planisware is the leading global provider of world-class Project & Product Portfolio Management solutions. Planisware’s acclaimed configurability accommodates the company’s global customers across a variety of industries and empowers users to align the solution with key business programs and portfolio management processes. To learn more about Planisware, please visit http://www.planisware.com or call 888-752-6479.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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The Oracle Agile PLM Summit, held at the Marriott Santa Clara, features educational sessions, customer spotlights and industry focus groups on Oracle's PLM technologies. Business leaders will learn from strategic partners and industry experts about using Oracle Agile PLM to align product value chains with innovation goals.

Attendees will gain exposure to new solutions and use cases, and leading practices for integration and product value chain optimization. The conference will also feature industry focus groups for life sciences, semiconductor and high tech, and industrial discrete manufacturing companies.

Kalypso is an Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized Partner and winner of the 2011 Oracle North American Titan Award for Supply Chain Management & Manufacturing Solution. Kalypso offers end-to-end Oracle Agile PLM management consulting and implementation services that can help companies accelerate enterprise-wide innovation and drive repeatable, scalable and sustainable improvements in their operations. For more information about Kalypso’s Oracle Agile PLM solutions visit http://kalypso.com/oracle/.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine a depth of experience in select industries with unparalleled expertise in product and process innovation. Gerry brings over 25 years of global experience in business performance improvement and enterprise software implementation and integration. He has served clients in the manufacturing, consumer products, healthcare, life sciences and high technology industries.

“Gerry is an outstanding client service professional who has tremendous experience leading complex implementations and increasing the value that clients receive from their investments in technology,” said Bill Poston, managing partner of Kalypso. “We are thrilled to bring his technology integration knowledge and extensive implementation experience to the community of Kalypso clients. His addition to the leadership team improves our ability to deliver strategic PLM initiatives for global clients.”

Prior to joining Kalypso, Gerry spent 20 years as a partner at Deloitte Consulting, where he led complex enterprise transformation programs for numerous global corporations, as well as held leadership roles in the firm’s technology integration and SAP practices in both the USA and Europe. Gerry has a strong background in partnering with client executive teams to make decisions over the lifecycle of enterprise software implementations and to realize high returns on technology investments. He has a proven track record of leading teams through the challenges that accompany large-scale transformational change. Additionally, Gerry has developed and taught MBA courses in healthcare and life sciences management, economics and finance. 

Gerry is based in the Philadelphia area and will work with client teams to deliver on innovation and product development strategies. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Pennsylvania State University, a Master of Arts in Economics from George Washington University and a PhD in Economics from George Mason University. He is a certified Project Management Professional and a Certified Management Accountant.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine a depth of experience in select industries with unparalleled expertise in product and process innovation. Richard brings over 25 years of consulting and business experience to Kalypso’s clients, serving the oil and gas, oilfield services, chemicals, manufacturing, and engineering & construction industries. He has led a number of large-scale, enterprise technology implementations and strategic transformation initiatives for complex global clients.

“Richard has been a personal friend and colleague of ours for going on 20 years. We are thrilled to add him to the team and bring his skills to the community of Kalypso clients,” said Bill Poston, managing partner of Kalypso. “As our PLM technology projects grow in scale and complexity, we must continue to improve our management methods and capabilities. Richard’s experience will be a tremendous asset to the team.” Founding partner George Young adds, “Richard brings a distinguished history of leading consulting firms and technology practices.”

Prior to joining Kalypso, Richard spent over 20 years in senior roles at Deloitte Consulting, EnterSys Group and HCL AXON. His industry experience includes roles at General Chemical Company and The Gillette Company.

Richard specializes in program management, program planning, process redesign, and deployment and change management with a focus on assisting clients capture the maximum value from their technology investments. His functional experience spans the innovation, supply chain, order fulfillment, service delivery, IT and asset management functions.

Richard is based in Houston, Texas and will work with client executive teams to transform their innovation and product development capabilities.  He will also focus on growing Kalypso’s client base in the Texas and South Central region of the United States. Richard holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Kalypso, the world's premier innovation consulting firm, released its top five predictions in innovation, product development and product lifecycle management (PLM) for 2012 today. The firm anticipates key trends in the areas of PLM technology, the cloud, social product innovation strategies, “reverse innovation” and consumer safety.

1. PLM adopts the cloud - With the recent release of new cloud-based PLM technologies from Dassault Systèmes and Autodesk, companies have a growing list of options for transitioning to cloud-based PLM systems. This, coupled with cloud-based energy savings and the potential to reduce cost of software ownership, will likely draw more companies to these solutions. 

"In 2012 we will see a number of firms start exploring cloud-based PLM solutions, particularly small to midsize companies in industries like consumer packaged goods (CPG) that tend to be more green-conscious," said George Young, a founding and managing partner at Kalypso.

2. Social innovation practices get less cloudy - In Kalypso’s recent study on how social media is impacting innovation and product development, almost half (46 percent) of surveyed companies admitted that they are not sure which approaches work. Over one-third (36 percent) said they are challenged by a lack of internal expertise or best practices to follow. 

"In 2012 we will see more clarity as organizations find tangible ways to take advantage of the power of social computing platforms to transform the way products are developed," said Bill Poston, a founding and managing partner at Kalypso. "Some companies will be dipping their toes into the field of social technologies and product development for the first time, while others will be developing more targeted strategies and metrics systems for their social product innovation programs.

3. Shift to emerging markets continues - Recent research reports indicate that as high as 40 percent of companies plan to shift foreign investments from developed to emerging markets in the upcoming years.

"With this shift in investment to emerging markets, we plan on seeing a large spike in ‘reverse innovation’ – developing products specifically for breakthrough markets," said Poston. "Furthermore, these products will then be at price points that are attractive to developed markets."

4. PLM becomes ubiquitous in consumer packaged goods industry – CPG companies have traditionally lagged behind other industries in adopting PLM to drive innovation, despite an industry focus on product and process innovation. However, critical industry factors over the last several years, such as supply chain and raw material cost fluctuations and regulatory compliance, have caused a shift in the industry that has led to an influx of CPG companies adopting PLM as a core business process. 

"Over the next 18 to 24 months, PLM will cease to be a competitive advantage in CPG," said Young. "Just as ERP was a competitive advantage at first, we're going to see the same thing happen with PLM in CPG."

5. Failure to keep consumers safe leads to criminal prosecutions – As numerous product recalls have demonstrated over the last several years – most recently with this year’s cantaloupe recall – product quality and safety issues can result in much worse things than lost revenue. Particularly in the world of food and beverage product safety, manufacturing executives who fail to meet regulatory standards may face jail time.

"The recent criminal prosecution of executives from the New Jersey-based dietary supplement companies QLF and ASN is just the start of criminal prosecutions for violating food or beverage safety," said Young. "As we look ahead to 2012, we expect to see at least one large food company put in jail for this very reason." 

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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Kalypso combines world-class management consulting capabilities with deep PLM technology and process improvement skills to successfully deliver comprehensive solutions. The firm has grown and broadened the expertise of its PTC Practice over the past several months with the addition of key professionals including Rod Walters, Vipin Goyal, Michael Glessner, Kirby Sisk and Howard Schimmoller. Combined, these business and industry thought leaders have more than 125 years of industry experience in product development and PLM across a broad range of industries.

“As the PTC Windchill® suite sees broad market adoption as a leading PLM platform, more PTC clients are turning to firms that offer both strategy and implementation services,” said Rod Walters, partner at Kalypso. “Kalypso is ideally positioned to help them achieve sustained results and realize the value of PLM. Our PTC PLM technology practice has grown 450% since last year and we are committed to support this important segment of our business with large investments in capabilities, accelerators and people.”

“We are excited to expand our relationship with Kalypso as one of our preferred PLM Services Partners,” said Renee DeMay, VP of Partner Services Programs at PTC. “Kalypso’s focus on innovation and product development is a great fit for PTC, and their passion for delivering sustained results from PLM investments will continue to offer substantial business value to our mutual clients.” 

The 2012 Service Advantage Territory Partner program is an important part of PTC’s strategy to expand its partner ecosystem to help meet the growing demand for Windchill PLM consulting and implementation services.

To strengthen the alliance, Kalypso and PTC will jointly invest in targeted solutions for the high technology, medical device, manufacturing, and the consumer, retail, footwear and apparel markets. Kalypso also offers services in support of extended PLM solutions from PTC, including social product innovation, portfolio and pipeline management, quality lifecycle management, MCAD, ECAD and embedded software.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

PTC, Windchill and Service Advantage are trademarks or registered trademarks of Parametric Technology Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

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BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Kalypso, the world’s premier innovation consulting firm, continues to experience significant demand for its services and expertise in innovation, product development and product lifecycle management (PLM). This demand has led to an expansion of the firm's practice areas, a recent slew of promotions and additional recruiting programs designed to find the next generation of Kalypso team members.

Since the firm's founding in 2004 by George Young and Bill Poston, Kalypso has grown by over 50 percent every year except 2009, when the firm grew 35 percent due to the effects of the global recession. The firm expects to accelerate this growth in coming years, expanding rapidly in Europe and Asia while continuing to build a strong team and client portfolio in North America.

"We've learned a lot about what it takes to succeed in a sluggish economy, but the future is bright and we have put an aggressive plan in place to continue growing at this rate even as the base gets larger and larger," said Poston, Kalypso co-founder and managing partner. "We believe our growth is a testament to the passion, expertise and value we are able to offer our clients. We will continue to work hard to ensure our clients get the help they need in order to deliver on the promise of innovation."

Part of this plan for growth involves expanding practice areas – adding capabilities and people in pricing and value management, digital innovation, organization change management and PLM. The firm is also building industry-focused practices in pharmaceuticals, health care and industrial manufacturing.

With Kalypso's success has come a recent series of promotions – 15 in 2011 alone. Of those 15, five were promotions to the leadership team, and two were promoted to partner and director – Horst Groesser and Joe Dury.

Kalypso is continually looking for individuals who are passionate about innovation to join their team of consultants. The firm recently launched a new careers website at http://careers.kalypso.com, where candidates can learn more about Kalypso's history, mission vision and values, and find current openings. The firm also has an active campus recruiting program, working with leading schools including Indiana, Rice, the University of Southern California and North Carolina State.

Kalypso’s culture is defined by a set of six core values that the firm lives by such as “Leaders behind the Leader” and “Characters with Character.” The open, creative culture and steep professional development curve make Kalypso an attractive place for the hardest working people in the business to pursue their passion. In April 2011, Kalypso was named one of Consulting magazine’s Seven Small Jewels, recognized for the firm’s “explosive growth.” The firm expects this type of growth to continue.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine a depth of experience in select industries with unparalleled expertise in product and process innovation. Vipin brings over 10 years of experience in PLM consulting and technology implementations to Kalypso's clients. He has served the retail, apparel, fashion, food and beverage, chemical, high technology and automotive industries. His focus is on helping clients extract value from their investments in PLM technology.

“Vipin has a proven track record of delivering outstanding PLM business results for global companies,” said Bill Poston, a founder and managing partner of Kalypso. “We are pleased to bring his broad PLM expertise and deep industry experience, particularly in retail and apparel, to our community of clients. He will play point guard on Kalypso’s PLM Dream Team.”

Prior to joining Kalypso, Vipin led the PTC PLM practice at Capgemini for over five years, where he was responsible for engagement delivery, practice development, business development, consulting services and PTC alliance management. Previously, Vipin managed Teamcenter Enterprise technology consulting and PLM implementation projects at Siemens PLM Software. Vipin also gained experience early in his career as a PTC and EDS PLM partner consultant working for ITC and Geometric.

Vipin’s primary areas of expertise include engagement management, business process improvement, and PLM technology implementation. His work is driven by industry leading practices and the seamless integration of process and technology. He has managed the design and deployment of PLM programs for globally recognized brand names in the retail and apparel industries with solutions including PTC Windchill, FlexPLM, SAP PLM, Oracle PLM for Process, and Siemens Teamcenter.

Vipin is based in Atlanta, Georgia and will work with client leadership teams to transform their innovation and product development capabilities.  He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi).

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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The Dassault Systèmes Customer Conference, held at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, features educational sessions and exhibits on how industry and technology leaders are using PLM solutions to develop new ideas and products. PLM customers, partners and technology leaders will also learn about cutting edge PLM technologies for virtual production, testing and collaboration.

DSCC attendees can learn about Kalypso’s approach to helping clients improve product development and innovation processes with PLM by visiting the firm’s exhibit in the Technology Showcase at Booth S6.

Kalypso offers a comprehensive set of services for Dassault Systèmes ENOVIA, from world-class management consulting capabilities through full technical implementation services. Kalypso PLM and innovation experts will be available to discuss PLM strategy, implementation, upgrade, migration, integration and customization, as well as industry-specific solutions for consumer goods, retail, high technology and medical device.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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The PDMA Product Innovation Management Conference, held in Phoenix, Arizona, features new solutions and leading practices in product and service development process. Product management practitioners will learn about the latest in product and service development knowledge that is applicable to real world situations through a series of educational sessions and networking opportunities.

Nova for PPM is a practical model based on leading practices in product development and innovation. It accelerates the implementation and adoption of innovation process management and enabling tools with a flexible, rapid prototyping approach. The integration of the Nova model into Planview Enterprise, a comprehensive planning and execution platform with real-time analytics, reporting and automated process management, offers companies an end-to-end product portfolio and pipeline management solution.

The Kalypso Planview partnership is founded on a shared passion for creating robust enterprise solutions that help companies implement and improve their product portfolio management disciplines. Nova for PPM's integration into Planview Enterprise allows product-driven organizations to increase innovation portfolio visibility and pipeline value.

Stop by Booth #101 to learn more about Nova for PPM or learn more at http://kalypso.com/novappm.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Kalypso, the world’s premier innovation consulting firm, announces the launch of PLM Vivo for Medical Device, a pre-configured product lifecycle management (PLM) solution designed for rapid implementation in medical device companies.

PLM Vivo is built on Oracle’s Agile PLM application and enables medical device companies to go live with their PLM solution in as little as 16 weeks. In addition to reducing setup time, PLM Vivo enables a more structured design control process, provides a validated “production ready” software system and facilitates swift user adoption. The reduced demands on time and resources open the door for medical device companies to gain PLM benefits faster than ever before.

PLM Vivo for Medical Device is configured based on best-in-class implementation practices specific to the industry. This includes Kalypso data templates, workflows, document templates such as DMR and DHF, computer systems validation templates, reports for internal and external audits, and a robust security model that meets 21 CFR Part 11 requirements.

“PLM Vivo for Medical Device is a cost-effective alternative to a traditional PLM implementation, providing a low-risk option for companies to jumpstart their PLM journey,” said Horst Groesser, a partner and Oracle Agile PLM practice lead at Kalypso. “With PLM Vivo, companies are able to leverage leading practice templates to help minimize the cost of validation and regulatory compliance, increase traceability to support internal and external audits, and improve product quality and reliability."

Kalypso is a Gold level member of Oracle® PartnerNetwork (OPN) and an Oracle Agile PLM Specialized partner.

For more information about PLM Vivo, visit http://kalypso.com/vivo-medicaldevice/.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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Planview Horizons, held in Austin, Texas October 25-27, offers attendees exceptional opportunities to learn first-hand, leading practices from their peers. Planview users will gain insight into operations and learn executable tips and tricks. Planview experts will be available for one-to-one educational opportunities and sessions will offer advanced insights into new product features.

During their session, Poston and Nauyalis will focus on how leading product development companies are using portfolio management as a competitive differentiator, and the valuation techniques, metrics and reports to effectively manage a product portfolio. Poston and Nauyalis will also highlight how organizations can implement these practices into their organizations.

WHAT: Planview & Kalypso: Product Development Leading Practices

WHEN: October 26 – 1:00pm CT

WHO: Kalypso managing partner Bill Poston, Planview product line manager Carrie Nauyalis

WHERE:  AT&T Conference Center, Austin, Texas

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Kalypso, the world’s premier innovation consulting firm, announced the winners of the 2011 SPIKE Awards for best use of social strategies, processes and supporting technologies to improve innovation, product development and product management. The awards were announced in true social media style: at the virtual Social Product Innovation Summit and on Twitter.

The 2011 SPIKE Awards winners are:

• Life Sciences: Prize4Life
• Consumer Packaged Goods: Diamond Candles
• Technology: CDC Software
• Manufacturing/Other: Madison Electric Products
• People’s Choice: CDC Software

The winners in the four industry categories were chosen by a panel of experts in product innovation and social media. A fifth award category, People’s Choice, was determined by online voting. An overview of each winning entry is available on the SPIKE Awards website at http://spikeawards.com.

The second annual SPIKE (Social Product Innovation Knowledge Excellence) Awards were announced at the Social Product Innovation Summit held October 18, 2011 at http://spikesummit.com, where presentations are now available for viewing on demand. The video recording of the SPIKE Awards presentation featuring acceptance speeches from the winners is also available and can be viewed at:
http://kalypso.com/viewpoints/resource/2011-spike-award-announcements

"The 2011 SPIKE Awards winners are impressive examples of companies that use Social Product Innovation to help them grow and improve profits, not just with common practices such as outbound marketing, but with enhanced business interactions as part of the innovation and product development processes,” said Amy Kenly, Social Product Innovation practice lead at Kalypso. “From open innovation and crowdsourcing to internal collaboration tools and social product development, our 2011 winners are examples of real, practical success stories in a very fast-paced market.”

For more information about the SPIKE Awards, visit http://spikeawards.com.

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The Summit is an interactive virtual conference for experts, users and peers to learn, discuss and celebrate leading practices for Social Product Innovation – integrating social innovation strategy and social technologies into innovation and product development processes.

The 2011 SPIKE Award winners will be announced at the end of the event. The SPIKE Awards recognize the best use of social strategies, processes and supporting technologies to improve innovation and product development. They celebrate Social Product Innovation across the product lifecycle, including open innovation, crowdsourcing, expert identification, collaboration platforms, social product development, sentiment analysis and more.

Speakers at the event will include:

• Jim Brown, founder and president of Tech-Clarity, on trends and insights on social product innovation
• Bill Poston, founding and managing partner of Kalypso, on practical starting points for social innovation
• Braden Kelley, author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, on connecting with employees and customers for innovation
• David Feinleib, investor and serial entrepreneur, on Web 3.0 and product innovation strategy
• Amy Kenly, head of Kalypso’s Social Product Innovation practice, to announce the 2011 SPIKE Award winners

“Companies are beginning to apply social strategies and technologies to solve business problems beyond traditional marketing and communications. Whether it’s crowdsouring in the front end of innovation (FEI), supporting the product development process internally, or measuring sentiment analysis of in-market products, social product innovation offers real benefits to companies with a practical approach,” said Bill Poston, founding and managing partner at Kalypso. “Kalypso is proud to sponsor the 2011 Social Product Innovation Summit, to give attendees, users, experts and sponsors a platform to share leading practices and learn from each other.”

Kalypso is joined by fellow event sponsors PDMA, Planview, InnovationManagement, Planisware, CA Technologies and Tech-Clarity.

Registration and additional information on the event is available at http://spikesummit.com.

About the SPIKE Awards

The SPIKE (Social Product Innovation Knowledge Excellence) Awards recognize the best use of social media concepts, strategies and supporting technologies to improve innovation, product development and product management. The Awards celebrate forward-thinking innovators that leverage social product innovation across the product lifecycle, including open innovation, crowdsourcing, expert identification, collaboration platforms, social product development and sentiment analysis. For more information, visit http://spikeawards.com. Follow @SPIKEawards on Twitter and on Facebook.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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“James has deep expertise helping companies deliver on the promise of innovation by creating and capturing maximum value from their product and service portfolio,” said Bill Poston, a founder and managing partner at Kalypso. “We are looking forward to bringing his experience leading transformational pricing and value management programs to Kalypso’s clients.”

Prior to joining Kalypso, James spent four years as a senior manager at Deloitte Consulting as a leader in their Pricing and Profitability Management practice. James specialized in developing and implementing leading pricing strategies and practices in B2B industries while leveraging pricing software solutions. He has led successful pricing technology projects for numerous Fortune 1000 companies. James also held professional services leadership positions with leading software providers such as Siebel Systems and CDC Software - Pivotal CRM.

James is based in the Dallas, Texas area and will lead Kalypso’s Value Management and Pricing team in the areas of pricing strategy, price setting/optimization and deal execution. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Baylor University.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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SAN FRANCISCO, California – Kalypso, the world’s premier innovation consulting firm and Gold level member of Oracle® PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced that it has received a 2011 Oracle North American Titan Award for Supply Chain Management & Manufacturing Solution. The prestigious Oracle awards were presented at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco.

Kalypso received the Oracle North American Titan Award in Supply Chain Management & Manufacturing Solution for its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Vivo solution implementation at one of the fastest growing quick service restaurants in the US. PLM Vivo is based on Oracle’s Agile PLM for Process. It is a rapid implementation tool designed for the quick service restaurant industry and it helps enable companies to achieve faster time to value.

“Oracle’s valued partner community in North America continues to reach new levels of expertise and innovation in developing and implementing Oracle technologies and delivering value-added services to joint customers,” said Ted Bereswill, Oracle Senior Vice President of North America Alliances and Channels. “This year’s Titan Award winners reflect the powerful combination that Oracle and our Specialized partners bring to customers across the enterprise and distinct industries.”

The Oracle North America Titan Awards are given by Oracle to its leading partners in recognition of their solutions and business practices developed or delivered in fiscal year 2011. The awards recognize partner excellence in a number of areas, including sales, marketing, solution development and customer satisfaction.

“Kalypso is incredibly honored to be recognized with an Oracle North America Titan Award for the second time since 2009,” said Kalypso Founding Partner George Young. “By combining the power of Agile PLM and Kalypso’s PLM expertise, our clients are seeing repeatable, scalable and sustainable improvements in their operations and experiencing top- and bottom-line growth as a result.”

Kalypso is an Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized partner. In 2009 Kalypso’s implementation of Agile PLM 9.3 for a global provider of commercial cleaning and hygiene solutions was chosen from more than 250 other implementation partners to receive the first Oracle PartnerNetwork Global Award for Applications Partner of the Year and the North American Titan Award for Specialty Applications Solution in 2009.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle’s products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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Kalypso’s participation includes two conference sessions on Thursday, October 6 featuring client case studies on specification and supplier management and enterprise quality management. Fred Brown, a partner at Kalypso, will be speaking at the "Specification and Supplier Management as a Foundation for Successful Consumer Goods Products" session at 10:30am. Kalypso partner Horst Groesser will also be presenting at the "Enabling Enterprise Quality Management with Agile Product Quality Management" session at 1:30pm.

During their respective sessions, both Brown and Groesser will highlight leading practices for Oracle Agile PLM implementations. Brown will provide insight into how Agile PLM solutions can help companies create successful consumer products by establishing an effective supplier management framework. Groesser will discuss how organizations can create a sound enterprise quality management foundation using Oracle's Agile Product Quality Management.

Attendees looking to learn more about innovative PLM practices and end-to-end Oracle Agile PLM management consulting and implementation services are encouraged to visit Kalypso’s exhibit in Moscone West Exhibit Hall at booth 3730. Exhibit visitors will have the opportunity to receive a special show discount on Kalypso services and the chance to enter a raffle prize drawing.

WHAT: Specification and Supplier Management as a Foundation for Successful Consumer Goods Products and Enabling Enterprise Quality Management with Agile Product Quality Management Sessions
WHEN: October 6 – 10:30am; October 6 – 1:30pm
WHO: Kalypso Partners Fred Brown and Horst Groesser
WHERE: Moscone Center, San Francisco, California

About Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, the information technology event dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs, draws more than 45,000 attendees from 117 countries. Oracle OpenWorld 2011 offers more than 2000 educational sessions, 400 product demos, exhibitions from 450 partners showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure -- all engineered for innovation. Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is being held October 2-6 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information or to register please visit http://www.oracle.com/openworld. Watch Oracle OpenWorld live on YouTube for keynotes, sessions and more at http://www.youtube.com/oracle.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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BEACHWOOD, Ohio – The second annual SPIKE Awards People's Choice online voting is now open at http://spikeawards.com. The SPIKE Awards recognize the best use of social strategies, processes and supporting technologies to improve innovation, product development and product management.

The SPIKE Awards People's Choice voting features two nominees in each of the four industry categories:

Consumer Packaged Goods: Diamond Candle, Glaceau Vitamin Water

Life Sciences: Prize4Life, HopeLab

Manufacturing/Other: Madison Electric Products, General Electric

Technology: CDC Software, Cisco Systems

Voters can read each organization's submission featuring business challenges, project details and results/improvements to determine their selection. Voting is open through Friday, October 14. One People's Choice winner will be determined by the online voting process. Additionally, the SPIKE Awards judges’ panel will select one winner for each of the four industry categories for a total of five awards.

Winners of the 2011 SPIKE Awards will be recognized at the virtual Social Product Innovation Summit October 18, 2011 at http://spikesummit.com.

About the SPIKE Awards

The SPIKE (Social Product Innovation Knowledge Excellence) Awards recognize the best use of social media concepts, strategies and supporting technologies to improve innovation, product development and product management. The Awards celebrate forward-thinking innovators that leverage social product innovation across the product lifecycle, including open innovation, crowdsourcing, expert identification, collaboration platforms, social product development and sentiment analysis. For more information, visit http://spikeawards.com. Follow @SPIKEawards on Twitter and on Facebook.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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The Summit, which takes place at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, helps executives acquire new ideas to help their company innovate, develop, and deliver the products that will drive new revenue opportunities and improve profitability.

According to Aberdeen’s 2011 Business Review, new product development managers report that balancing resources across their project portfolio is a primary challenge. Kalypso’s New Product Development Execution capability helps companies realize optimal product development performance and transform the enterprise to sustain real, lasting results. Kalypso’s Portfolio and Pipeline Management consulting practice helps companies balance shrinking development budgets, select winning investments and maximize return with limited resources.

Join Kalypso, industry thought leaders and corporate executives to share the latest innovations in new product development. More information on the event is available at http://bit.ly/KalypsoPDDLS. Read Aberdeen Senior Research Analyst Michelle Boucher’s thoughts on the Summit on Kalypso’s blog at http://bit.ly/MBGuestPost.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/KalypsoLP.

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The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine a depth of experience in select industries with unparalleled expertise in product and process innovation. Michael brings over 30 years of experience in industry and consulting to Kalypso's clients, serving the life sciences, aerospace and defense, and manufacturing industries.

“Michael has an outstanding track record of driving innovation, transformative change and value creation across a wide range of industries,” said Bill Poston, a founder and managing partner of Kalypso. “We are thrilled to bring his extensive experience leading enterprise innovation transformation programs to the community of Kalypso clients.”

Prior to joining Kalypso, Michael was vice president and director of engineering for Greene, Tweed & Company, a 1400-employee engineered polymer solutions company serving the medical device, semiconductor, oilfield, aerospace and petrochemical industries.  Michael led design and product development activities of a team spanning the US, Europe and Asia, and implemented the global gated development solution for the company.  Michael also headed the medical device business for Greene, Tweed & Company as general manager.

Previously, Michael built a consulting practice assisting portfolio companies of Safeguard Scientifics, a holding company that invests in growth-oriented life sciences and information technology companies.  He also spent eight years at Arthur Andersen’s Business Consulting practice where he led ERP, operational improvement and change projects for clients in the life sciences, manufacturing, high technology and services industries.

Michael is based in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School as a General Motors Fellowship recipient, and a BSME from General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/KalypsoLP.

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via BusinessWire - AUSTIN, Texas - Planview, leaders in portfolio management, and Kalypso, the premier innovation consulting firm, are bringing cutting-edge practices in innovation management to product-driven organizations. Planview has integrated Kalypso’s Nova, a practical, results-oriented model for driving improved product development performance, into its acclaimed portfolio management (PPM) solution.

The integration of the Nova model into Planview Enterprise, a comprehensive planning and execution platform with real-time analytics, reporting and automated process management, offers companies an end-to-end product portfolio and pipeline management solution. Nova content for PPM is also available in Planview PRISMS, an industry-leading resource and customer portal allowing Planview customers to easily access proven expertise on optimizing the innovation process.

Analysts’ Perspective:

“In product portfolio management, companies need a tool that lets them make the right business decisions and be responsive to market opportunities,” said Jim Brown, president and veteran analyst, Tech-Clarity. “Incorporating leading practices with the right solution, such as Nova’s integration into Planview Enterprise, provides innovation-focused companies with a platform to accelerate and continuously improve their product portfolio management performance.”

PPM is maturing in product development organizations as the tension between the need to innovate and resource constraints continues to be a top challenge in today’s economic climate. The maturation of PPM is further validated In Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Manufacturing Product Life Cycle and Operations Management report, July 2011 by Simon F. Jacobson, Marc Halpern and Leif Eriksen. PPM is cited as one of the “top priorities” for manufacturers during the next five years.

Key Benefits:

Nova provides a practical methodology to accelerate the effectiveness of the innovation process, integrating portfolio, phase gate, resource and idea management. With key metrics, reports, valuation techniques, business process flows and decision-making structures preconfigured into Planview Enterprise, organizations are able to incorporate leading practices in product development and innovation right from the start.

Key features of the Nova model within Planview Enterprise include:

• Idea and project evaluation criteria
• Portfolio and resource reporting, analysis and optimization techniques
• Governance and decision-making structures

The Nova model also comes with a unique implementation approach that begins with a characterization of a company’s existing innovation platform. This step helps validate the model and drives value through visibility faster than might otherwise be possible with a more traditional implementation approach.

What We Say:

“Competitive and economic pressures require that companies constantly evaluate their product portfolio. The Nova for PPM methodology provides Planview Enterprise with a pragmatic, rapidly deployed framework for portfolio assessment. As a result, companies will immediately catapult their performance by maximizing the return on their product pipelines,” said Patrick Tickle, executive vice president of products, Planview.

“To be successful implementing PPM, companies need to focus on the information, processes and people in the equation. Our predefined practices and analyses are an excellent complement to Planview Enterprise. This solution allows our clients to extract value quickly with leading practices in innovation built into the product,” said Bill Poston, Kalypso’s managing partner.

The Technology:

Planview Enterprise helps companies improve product development by automating the ideation process, optimizing product and roadmap planning, improving time to market, mapping regulatory requirements and providing transparency into the true cost of product development. Further, customers of Planview will benefit from PlanviewPRISMS.com, a dynamic, interconnected training, e-learning and best practices exchange portal now featuring Kalypso’s preeminent strategies for maximizing product innovation and pipeline value.

Nova is a practical innovation management model based on Kalypso’s years of hands-on, global experience across industries. Nova is designed to rapidly improve an organization’s pipeline visibility, develop practical management processes and facilitate strategic innovation planning.

For more information, attend Get ahead: Jump start your pipeline process to drive innovation, www.planview.com/novawebcast, on September 27, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. CDT, or contact market@planview.com to learn more.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/KalypsoLP.

About Planview

Planview helps enterprises drive innovation, become more agile and efficient, and improve their business performance. For more than 20 years, leading organizations have been making better decisions using our solutions to optimize the planning and execution of their business strategy. As the market leader in portfolio management, we combine a passion for customer success with a commitment to innovation and thought leadership. Throughout the enterprise, our customers use portfolio management to capitalize on business opportunities and thrive in a dynamic, global economy. For more innovation, visit http://planview.com and follow @Planview on Twitter.

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The NEW Leadership Summit 2011, held in Orlando, Florida September 19-20, draws the industry’s leading organizations year after year to this one-of-a-kind event. The Network is marking its 10th anniversary with an all-new learning and networking event featuring one thousand industry leaders, more than a dozen breakouts and keynotes and the first-ever industry Red Carpet Hall of Fame Awards dinner, reception and after party.

During their respective panels, Angelus will provide insight into how attendees can best connect with each other at the event and improve career connections while Wood will discuss new attitudes and practices for the work/life equation.

WHAT: Network Like A Pro Workshop and Balancing Acts Panel: Strategies for Busy Women
WHEN: September 19 – 2:30p.m.; September 20 – 11:45a.m.
WHO: Kalypso Partner Helayne Angelus and Senior Consultant Kristen Wood
WHERE:  Buena Vista Palace Resort and Spa, Orlando, Florida

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/KalypsoLP.

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The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine a depth of experience in select industries with unparalleled expertise in product and process innovation. Cynthia brings over 24 years of experience as an engineer, program manager, process improvement and market strategy consultant, executive coach and as the founder of her own firm.

“Cynthia has an excellent track record coaching executives and teams in driving process and technology changes to transform their innovation, new product development and product lifecycle management (PLM) capabilities,” said Ken Parekh, Kalypso partner and Innovation Leadership & Learning practice lead. “She is an engaged leader and a trusted advisor who inspires cooperation, instills confidence and builds teams that are motivated to succeed.”

Cynthia began her career as an automotive and software engineer. She gained both strategic and operational expertise as a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting, a leader at Visa USA/Inovant, and a consulting firm president and founder. She coaches clients in the consumer goods, finance and technology industries in executive team alignment, leadership development and change management to help them achieve their strategic business and innovation objectives.

Cynthia holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design from Michigan State University. She is  certified as an Executive Coach through the International Coaches Federation, as a Leadership Development expert through Coaches Training Institute,  a Process Re-engineer through Hammer and Company and as a Program Manager through ESI/George Washington University.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/KalypsoLP.

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An expert in social product innovation, Kenly will offer InnovationManagement readers insight on integrating social strategies, models and technologies into organizations’ product development processes. “The opportunity to share leading practices in social product innovation will provide InnovationManagement readers with the latest information on leveraging social strategies to accelerate and enhance existing innovation and product development processes,” said Kenly. 

InnovationManagement offers a broad range of innovation thoughtware to a global audience, from leading practices and expert insights to case studies and solutions. As a contributor to InnovationManagement, Kenly will be joining a group of practitioners and educators who provide perspectives on all aspects of the innovation process. Kenly’s first article is available at http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2011/08/24/social-media-and-product-development-from-theory-to-practice.

Kalypso is a leading provider of research, thought leadership and services for social product innovation, recently publishing the white paper “Social Media and Product Development: Early Adopters Reaping Benefits amidst Challenge and Uncertainty.” To access the white paper and research findings, visit http://kalypso.com/spike. For more information about InnovationManagement, visit http://www.innovationmanagement.se.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/KalypsoLP.

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The Summit provides a virtual forum for experts, users and peers to discuss leading practices for Social Product Innovation – integrating social strategies, models and technologies into innovation and product development processes. Attendees will have a unique opportunity to learn, discuss and celebrate the best uses of Social Product Innovation across the product lifecycle, including open innovation, crowdsourcing, expert identification, collaboration platforms, social product development, sentiment analysis and more.

Social Product Innovation thought leaders, strategists and end users are encouraged to submit proposals to present at the Summit on the call for speakers website at http://kalypso.com/spikespeakers/.

The Social Product Innovation Summit will feature live chat sessions on key trends in Social Product Innovation, open networking opportunities, a virtual exhibit hall, expert speakers and presentations from 2010 SPIKE Award winners. The Summit will close with the SPIKE Awards ceremony, where the 2011 winners will be announced. The second annual SPIKE Awards will continue to accept nominations through September 2, 2011 at http://spikeawards.com.

Social Product Innovation Summit sponsors include Kalypso and Tech-Clarity. Companies interested in sponsoring the Summit should contact Amy Kenly at amy.kenly@kalypso.com.

About the SPIKE Awards

The SPIKE (Social Product Innovation Knowledge Excellence) Awards recognize the best use of social media concepts, strategies and supporting technologies to improve innovation, product development and product management. The Awards celebrate forward-thinking innovators that leverage social product innovation across the product lifecycle, including open innovation, crowdsourcing, expert identification, collaboration platforms, social product development and sentiment analysis. For more information, visit http://spikeawards.com. Follow @SPIKEawards on Twitter and on Facebook.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook.

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BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Kalypso, the world’s premier innovation consulting firm and an award-winning Gold member of Oracle® PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced it has achieved OPN Specialization for Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

To achieve a Specialized status, Oracle partners are required to meet a stringent set of requirements that are based on the needs and priorities of the customer and partner community. By achieving Specialization, Kalypso has been recognized by Oracle for its expertise in delivering services specifically around Agile PLM through competency development, business results and proven success.

"Kalypso is proud to achieve Oracle’s Agile PLM Specialization," said George Young, Kalypso founding partner. "With OPN Specialization, we are able to provide our clients with a comprehensive set of services for Agile PLM, from world-class management consulting capabilities through full technical implementation services.” 

Kalypso has extensive implementation experience with Agile PLM and Agile PLM for Process, providing guidance in Agile PLM strategy, implementation and optimization. Kalypso has deep expertise in program management, process consulting, change management, configuration and testing services and targeted custom development. The firm also offers industry-specific Agile PLM solutions and accelerators in the food and beverage, retail, consumer goods, medical device, high technology and semiconductor industries.

"Kalypso can offer our joint clients industry-leading PLM solutions that can help accelerate product innovation, deliver business growth and contain cost," said Tyler Prince, group vice president, NAS Alliance & Channels, Applications & Systems Integrators, Oracle. "Behind this success is Kalypso's extensive knowledge of Oracle’s Agile PLM, deep industry experience and a focus on business process design supported by technology that provides the marketplace with real business value from PLM."

In 2009 Kalypso’s implementation of Agile 9.3 PLM for a global provider of commercial cleaning and hygiene solutions was chosen from more than 250 other implementation partners to receive the first Oracle PartnerNetwork Global Award for Applications Partner of the Year and the 2009 North American Titan Award for Specialty Applications Solution.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success.  To find out more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners or connect with the Oracle Partner community at OPN on Twitter, OPN on Facebook, OPN on LinkedIn, and OPN on YouTube.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/KalypsoLP.

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“Rod has an outstanding track record of driving real improvement across a wide range of industries,” said Bill Poston, the managing partner of Kalypso. “We are thrilled to bring his deep PLM knowledge and extensive experience leading enterprise PLM programs to the community of Kalypso clients. He will do an outstanding job managing our rapidly growing PTC implementation practice.”

Prior to joining Kalypso, Rod spent 10 years at PTC as a senior vice president with leadership responsibilities including field sales, services and global alliances and partnerships. Having served as the executive sponsor for many of PTC’s largest customers, Rod understands how to extract value from PLM technology. He has a true appreciation for the organizational complexities and management challenges that accompany any attempt at driving large-scale transformational change through the deployment of enterprise PLM systems.

Rod is based in the San Francisco Bay area and will work with client executive teams to transform their innovation and product development capabilities.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard University.

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/KalypsoLP.

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The NEW Executive Leaders Forum, now in its fifth year, brings together more than 200 senior-level women and men in the consumer products and retail industry. The retreat offers real-world advice from top industry executives, world-class keynote speakers, in-depth breakout sessions, peer learning and peerless networking.

During the panel, “Connecting the Strategy to the Consumer,” Angelus and Friedman will lead a discussion on how companies can consistently satisfy customers by crafting experiences that meet and exceed their expectations. The panel will discuss how companies can discover what consumers want and how to leverage their strategies to deliver it.

WHAT: Connecting the Strategy to the Consumer
WHEN: Wednesday July 20, 1:30 – 2:45pm; repeated 3:00 – 4:15pm
WHO: Helayne Angelus and Mike Friedman, Kalypso, Moderators; Claire Miller Director of Global Marketing, Kimberly-Clark; Linda Severin Vice President, Corporate Brands, The Kroger Co.; Olu Fajemirokun Vice President, Global Shopper, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Group
WHERE:  Palos Verdes 7 at Terranea Resort, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

About Kalypso

Kalypso is the world's premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve performance, drive profitability and create sustainable results by delivering on the promise of innovation. The people of Kalypso are leading business professionals who combine unparalleled expertise in innovation, product development, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with a depth of experience in the consumer goods, high technology, manufacturing, medical device, life sciences and retail industries. For more information, visit http://kalypso.com. Follow @KalypsoLP on Twitter and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/KalypsoLP.

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