News Release
Case Studies from Leading Companies, Selected by World's Top Innovation Management Scholars, to be Presented at the Annual Stage-Gate® Innovation Summit
ANCASTER, ONTARIO, CANADA – June 22, 2010 - Stage-Gate International (SGI),
a Member Company of the Product Development Institute, is pleased to announce the
leading companies and innovation champions that will be presenting at the annual
Stage-Gate Innovation Summit on November 16-17, 2010 in Clearwater, Florida. These
case studies were hand-selected by Dr. Robert Cooper and Dr. Scott Edgett for their
rich, practical and exemplary demonstrations of product leadership and best practices.
- Hydro
Quebéc - Charles Gagnon, Director, Technology Business Development
- ITT Corporation -
Dick Arra, Chief Technology Officer
- Kellogg
Company - Mary Maley, Global Program Director RQT
- Mars
Chocolate NA - Suzanne Stites, Cocoa Flavanol Platform Venture
- Masco
Corporation - Thomas L Nealssohn, Manager Research & Development
- McNeil
Nutritionals, LLC, a Johnson & Johnson Company - Jan Deihl, Director,
Portfolio and CIP
- Medtronic -
Joe Fleming, Sr. Director, Marketing and Corporate Strategy
- Medtronic -
Mike Hess, VP, Innovation Excellence
- Rust-Oleum
Corporation - Kurt M. Hardy, SVP, Marketing and RDI
This year’s Summit is focused on ‘Driving Product Innovation Results:
Profits, Productivity and Speed’. Speakers will share valuable learnings,
real stories and practical tips for accelerating and succeeding in key areas
that impact your organizations’ product innovation performance.
Robert Cooper and Scott Edgett will deliver the Keynote addresses at Stage-Gate
Summit 2010. On Day One, Dr. Cooper will deliver his presentation ‘Creating and Sustaining the Innovation Organization – Leaders
Needed’. Robert Cooper will share the five vectors that drive innovation in an organization, and
the seven habits of successful leaders of innovative organizations. On Day Two, Scott Edgett will present
the topic ‘Raising the Bar: New Benchmarks and Practices in Product Innovation’. Dr. Edgett
will share which practices truly drive world-class product innovation performance and 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.
We would also like to welcome and thank our Gold Sponsors for Summit 2010:
- Innovation Framework Technologies
- Sopheon
- The GenSight® Group, who will also sponsor the evening Networking Reception
- PowerSteering® Software
Each of our Gold Sponsors’ innovation software has achieved Stage-Gate® Ready
Certification. The certification differentiates software solutions and assures
potential buyers of product development software that the application performs
the functionality necessary to successfully implement Stage-Gate processes such
as: Idea Management, Idea-to-Launch and Portfolio Management.
For more information on this highly anticipated event or to learn more about Stage-Gate
Certification, please visit
www.stage-gate.com.
Contact
michelle.jones@stage-gate.com
Executive Vice President, Global Growth
Stage-Gate International
+1-905-304-8797
www.stage-gate.com
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