Maximizing your Productivity in Product Innovation

14 - 15 May 2009
Sheraton Hotel, Heathrow, London

A Two Day intensive, hands-on workshop from the world's most respected NPD expert on Best Practices Techniques for Accelerating your New Product Process.

For companies who have already introduced a new product process (such as Stage-Gate^TM) an yet are still struggling to get the financial returns they expected.

Background

Projects take too long, the development pipeline is clogged with too many projects, and more often than not, key projects are not properly resourced at the right time. If you are not happy, with your answers to the below questions then join me in May to get the answers and tools you need.

1. Are you satisfied with your business’s development time – or does it seem to take forever to get vital new products to market?
    
2. Is your new product process too bureaucratic and not agile enough to deal with today’s fast-paced world?
    
3. Is your development process too rigid – or does it adjust to accommodate different types of projects; and is there an XPress version for smaller projects and customer requests?
    
4. Are you doing the right front-end homework on projects – getting the facts to get the product definition right and make the right Go/Kill decisions?
    
5. Are you doing the right development projects – or do you have too many small, low-value projects in your development portfolio?

Even with a well-defined idea-to-launch system, firms have recognised that greater success rates and bigger profits are achieved by applying new best practices. The secret is not so much what process you have, but how you go about applying it. This step-by step seminar, taught by a world leader, shows you how. In this exclusive, 2-day seminar, Dr Cooper will provide insights into the best practices that really distinguish the top performing businesses in product innovation – practices designed to achieve greater speed, better profitability and higher productivity in new product development.

Event Sponsors:

Bubble is a leading consulting firm specialising in new product development and commercialisation. Working across Europe and North America we help our clients achieve their growth targets through improved product strategies and innovation processes. We apply our extensive experience of world class processes for identifying the right products, accelerating their development, powering their commercialisation and establishing the right supply chains to maximise their profitability.

Innovation Framework Technologies specialises in helping companies to build and implement robust innovation processes for repeatable success. Our software based solution delivers world-class best practices and processes for integrated portfolio, Stage-Gate^TM, project and idea management, and cuts the time, cost and complexity of managing innovation.

Strategyn is the pioneer and leader in Outcome-Driven Innovation - a methodology that shatters the myths and barriers that have stifled the success of the voice-of-the-customer movement. Our intriguing perspective and theory on innovation dramatically improves a company’s ability to achieve core market growth, create new markets, pursue disruptive strategies and streamline internal business processes.