News Release
Stage-Gate, Inc. Unveils New Strategy
Seminar for Executives Responsible for Driving Innovation
Results
ANCASTER,
ONTARIO, CANADA – Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - Stage-Gate,
Inc., a member company of the Product Development Institute,
announced today that it is introducing a ground-breaking
seminar to their suite of unparalleled New Product Development
Conferaction Seminars in September 2004. The seminar
entitled ‘Leading Product Innovation and Technology
Strategy: Creating Shareholder Value through Innovation’
is focused on enabling executives to realize organic growth
results for their company through an effective and high
quality Product Innovation and Technology Strategy.
Innovation
has been identified as an organization-wide priority for
75% of the fastest growing companies in the US[i].
The impact for those organizations committed to innovation
is significant: their revenue has grown 61% faster than
those organizations not committed to such initiatives over
the past five years[ii].
Fundamental to innovation is an inspiring Product Innovation
and Technology Strategy. Several noted research studies
on NPD performance, including the recent APQC[iii]
Best Practices in Product Innovation, validate the vital
role that Product Innovation and Technology Strategy plays
in facilitating organizations to achieve their business’s
organic growth goals. In turbulent economic times,
ensuring maximum value and outcomes from your investment
is of paramount importance to executives – especially those
responsible for Research and New Product Development, an
area that is too often one of the first to experience budget
cuts.
“This
seminar is intense and highly focused. We draw extremely
high quality participants from some of the best performing
and innovative companies from around the world which gives
participants an opportunity not only to learn from Stage-Gate,
Inc. NPD Gurus and Experts but to learn from each other
as well”, says Barbara Pitts, Chief Operating Officer.
For information
on this seminar and others, visit
http://www.stage-gate.com/seminars.html.
[i]
Collins, Pete. “Innovation
Pays off Handsomely for the 75% of Fast-Growth Companies
Making it an Organization –Wide Priority”, PricewaterhouseCoopers,
2001.
[iii]
Cooper, R., Edgett
S. and E. Kleinschmidt. Best Practices in
Product Innovation: What Distinguishes Top Performers.
Ancaster, Ontario: Product Development Institute,
2003.
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