Accelerate Your ‘Best’ New Product Projects By Dr. Robert G. Cooper The tough economy has become a new source of motivation for executives looking to implement ‘good sense’ practices. Of particular interest is the best practice of deploying a systematic, disciplined approach to yielding wise investment decisions and sound resource allocations to accelerate your best projects’ time-to-profit. If your company is among the many which are closely scrutinizing R&D budgets in search of the few projects that offer the highest impact on the business (short-term and long-term), this month’s newsletter is chock-full of tips and resources. Our advice – be a positive change agent during these tough times. Introduce proven practices and tools which make the tough Go/Kill decision-making process more effective for all involved. Instill confidence, accelerate results, achieve alignment and most importantly, yield good decisions. Read Article.

Register Now - Limited Seats Stage-Gate Summit '09 February 24-25, 2009 Register Now -Top Rated Seminar Portfolio/Strategy Seminar March 10-11, 2009 Free Webinar Successful Product Innovation January 28, 2009 1:00pm EST Feature Publication - Order Now Lean, Rapid and Profitable New Product Development

How 8 Leading Companies Are Maximizing Product Innovation Performance
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February 24-25, 2009

How do leaders of top performing companies drive profitable growth through product innovation despite the numerous challenges and obstacles before them?

Attend Stage-Gate Innovation Summit ’09 and hear presentations by executives from 8 companies hand-selected for their rich, practical and exemplary demonstrations of product leadership • Church & Dwight • Corning Inc. • Fresenius Health Care • ICOM • ITT Industries • Johnson & Johnson • McKesson Provider Technologies • Procter & Gamble

Three reasons to attend this event:

1. Your time is valuable: gain in 2 days what took these top performing companies years to discover.
2. You need answers: hear keynote addresses by innovation experts, Dr. Robert Cooper & Dr. Scott Edgett.
3. Quality support: gain a high caliber network of executives who make it their business to excel in innovation.

Plus much more.

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

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Learn how to achieve ‘Gates with Teeth’ in less than 60 minutes
Limited Time Offer Only $149 –Webinar featuring Dr. Robert Cooper

Stretch your training budget and learn from the expert himself, Dr. Robert Cooper, how a highly effective governance system for new product development can focus limited resources on the best projects.

Learn about these key topics:

• The governance model for new product development
• Seven reasons not to kill projects
• Seven requirements for ‘Gates with Teeth’
• Five key roles of the Gatekeepers
• Effective Gate meetings

And much more! Download today and start implementing tomorrow!
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The Business Case for Improving Your Idea-to-Launch Process
By Michelle Jones, EVP Global Growth, Stage-Gate International

In this article Michelle offers well researched and widely documented facts on some of the most popular performance levels achieved by companies using a high quality idea-to-launch process. Additionally, she introduces a free on-line tool which assesses whether your idea-to-launch process has the potential to deliver better performance results as well as four quick ways to quantify the benefits. Read Article.

Maximize the Value of Your New Product Portfolio
March 10-11, 2009, Clearwater, FL

Most businesses lack an effective and clearly articulated product innovation strategy; yet having this strategy is one of the important drivers of success. Attend the executive seminar Developing a Product Innovation Strategy and Deciding Your New Product Portfolio and learn how to:

• Maximize the productivity of your development portfolio through an effective portfolio management system
• Achieve high impact by prioritizing projects with the greatest strategic alignment
• Optimize scarce resources - focus your ideation and innovation efforts

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.

Top-rated seminar by past attendees. Your satisfaction guaranteed!

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