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Stage-Gate Innovation Summit ‘09
February 24-25, 2009 in Clearwater, Florida

Join Dr. Robert Cooper and Dr. Scott Edgett – the world’s foremost experts in the field of product innovation – at Stage-Gate Innovation Summit '09 for a powerful exchange of cutting-edge ideas, discussions and learnings with industry’s best and brightest innovation leaders. Learn from eight case studies - Church & Dwight, Corning Inc., Fresenius Health Care, ICOM, ITT Industries, Johnson & Johnson, McKesson Provider Technologies, Procter and Gamble - hand-selected for their rich, practical and exemplary demonstrations of product leadership and best practices. Discover how and why certain companies are achieving stellar organic growth results despite the numerous challenges and obstacles before them. Gain an instant, high caliber network of innovation professionals who make it their business to excel in Stage-Gate innovation processes.

If product innovation is a critical business activity in your organization and you are searching for new ways to improve product innovation performance, Stage-Gate Innovation Summit is a must-attend event.

Picking the right projects and platforms to invest in is at the heart of successful product innovation. But effective project selections or portfolio management hinges on having a clearly defined and articulated Product Innovation and Technology Strategy for your business; the markets, technologies or products you should focus your efforts on and a strong link to portfolio management. Most businesses lack an effective and clearly articulated product innovation strategy; yet having this strategy is one of the important common denominators of successful businesses.

Join Dr. Cooper and learn effective and profitable product innovation strategies used by leading companies and proven project selection techniques sure to yield a higher value portfolio.

An Effective and Efficient Product Innovation Foundation for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses’
By Jim Mikell, EVP, Global Solutions

Product innovation is one of the most common drivers of growth for small and mid-sized businesses, and the relative success or failure of each new product launch has a significant impact on the company’s achievement of its goals.  Smaller businesses must understand and implement the Critical Success Factors for Winning at New Products as much as larger ones.  However, smaller businesses inherently have certain advantages which can, if leveraged, enable them to implement a best-practice product innovation program more quickly and completely.