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cannot manage what you do not measure and what gets measured gets done.
- Dr. Robert Cooper and Dr. Scott Edgett, Founders of Stage-Gate International
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are the
world's foremost experts in the field of product innovation. They have inspired and enabled
business executives and organizations around the world to create billions of dollars in new
wealth through product leadership.
Creators of the world's most widely implemented innovation system,
Stage-Gate®, their pioneering research and resulting methodologies
have led to some of the most important discoveries in new product development and portfolio management. |
DR. ROBERT COOPER
Summit Co-chair
Keynote Presenter
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Dr. Cooper delivers two keynote presentations:
Bob Cooper will look at global innovation trends such as:
- accelerating the idea-to-launch process with new electronic methodologies
- where open innovation is heading
- moving towards bigger, bolder innovation
- how some firms are becoming much more strategic in their innovation efforts
- adopting a truly global innovation organizational structure
Stage-Gate is evolving quickly as task forces around the world move their firms
to the next generation idea-to-launch system. Bob Cooper will highlight
important changes he sees taking place in companies’ innovation
processes:
- more effective ideation and feeding the innovation funnel
- leaning down the innovation process for higher productivity in new-product development
- accommodating open innovation
- automating innovation
- building in “lean gates with teeth” in order to achieve better focus
- integrating Stage-Gate into the firm’s product life cycle model
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DR. SCOTT EDGETT
Summit Co-chair
Keynote Presenter
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Dr. Edgett delivers a keynote presentation:
Scott Edgett will present a keynote address providing insight into the latest
benchmark performance results. Compare your organization’s performance on key product
innovation metrics at both the business unit and project
level. Learn what the latest benchmark standards are for innovation success including
topics such as:
- performance success and failure rates
- developing projects on budget and on-time
- the impact of process on performance
- the impact gatekeeping practices can have on success
Learn what the best performers are doing and how you measure up!
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