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.

Instructor

Dr. Robert G. Cooper

Dr. Robert G. Cooper, author of best-selling books "Winning at New Products" and "Portfolio Management for New Products", has published more than 100 articles on new products, R&D and innovation management.

He is Professor Emeritus at the DeGroote School of Business, at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada) as well as founder and president of the Product Development Institute and was recently ranked “world’s top innovation management scholar” by the prestigious US publication, Journal of Product Innovation Management and is the creator of the Stage-Gate® system, used globally by most major firms to drive new products to market.

He is recognised as one of the leading authorities in the field of innovation, technology and new product development and his methods have been introduced globally by many companies including P&G, 3M, ABB, AT&T, Carlsberg, Caterpillar, DuPont, Exxon Chemicals, HP, Emerson Electric, Nokia, Kraft Foods, Reckitt- Benckiser, Siemens, Lego, Pfizer, VISA and many others.

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.