Father of Stage-Gate^®; author of the best-selling Winning at New Products, Third Edition and Lean, Rapid and Profitable New Product Development; named “The World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” (PDMA’s Journal of Product Innovation Management)

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: CREATING AND SUSTAINING THE INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATION – LEADERS NEEDED

As CEOs turn their attention to growth, many ponder their organization’s ability to successfully deliver the breakthrough innovations required to differentiate their business in crowded markets. In an increasingly complex business environment, leaders are facing unprecedented change at a dizzying pace. How are executives planning to achieve growth through product innovation under such challenging and unpredictable circumstances?

Now more than ever, executives are called upon to lead the innovative organization. It’s not that CEOs are just now becoming aware of the importance of leadership to successful innovation – they have long been aware of the need to innovate their products, their processes and their customer’s experiences. But today, it is not sufficient for executives to be prepared for it personally. They must equip their entire company to be a catalyst for innovation. Robert Cooper shares with you the five vectors that drive innovation in the organization, and the seven habits of successful leaders of innovative organizations.

World expert in the field of product innovation; co-author of Portfolio Management for New Products, Second Edition; named among “The World’s Top Ten Innovation Management Scholars” (PDMA’s JPIM)

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: RAISING THE BAR - NEW BENCHMARKS AND PRACTICES IN PRODUCT INNOVATION

Most executives agree that the new economic environment is different – more volatile, uncertain and perhaps even more complex. Tremendous controversy exists in determining which long-held assumptions should be challenged, which systems should be preserved and which new practices should be adopted to adjust an organization’s innovation capability to the ‘new reality’.

In his recent study, a collaborative effort with the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC), Scott Edgett sets out to confirm which practices truly drive world-class product innovation performance – by today’s standards. His approach challenges conventional thinking, puts tried-and-tested back to the test and searches out the new promising practices. Scott will unveil the key characteristics of today’s successful product innovation organizations – their approaches, leadership practices, innovation processes and strategies. He will also lower the microscope to reveal the most critical elements – those that have a real and measured impact on results – from idea inception through to successful launch.