WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Anyone responsible for innovation, innovation managers in B2B businesses, product development and R&D leaders, portfolio management professionals, and anyone accountable for innovation ROI.

WHAT YOU LEARN

1. Master Success Factors: Understand what separates winners from losers, address root causes of failure, and build seven critical research-backed practices into your NPD methods.
2. Design Effective Processes: Create best-in-class gating systems that adapt to different project types, implement iterative development approaches, and build Agile-Stage-Gate hybrid models.
3. Develop Innovation Strategy: Set meaningful goals, select strategic arenas that become engines of growth, build product roadmaps, and become more innovative.
4. Optimize Portfolio Management: Allocate resources using Strategic Buckets, make effective Go/Kill decisions using appropriate metrics, and prioritize projects with discipline.
5. Accelerate and Focus: Deliver on time through effective project tracking, commit resources at gate decisions, and learn when and how to kill projects. 

WHAT YOU GET

1. Proven Stage-Gate and Agile-Stage-Gate frameworks ready to implement
2. Portfolio management tools and prioritization methods including Productivity Index
3. Innovation strategy development templates and roadmapping approaches
4. Go/Kill decision criteria and scoring models for effective gatekeeping
5. Action plan tailored to your organization developed during the program
6. Seven modules covering full NPD lifecycle from strategy through execution
7. Team-based action planning sessions identifying improvements
8. Research-backed methods proven across hundreds of organizations

INSTRUCTOR

 Dr. Robert G. Cooper is one of the most influential innovation thought leaders in the business world today. He was rated #21 in the world by Research.com in research in the field of management and business. He pioneered the original research that led to many ground breaking discoveries including the Stage Gate® Idea to Launch process. He has published more than 130 articles and 12 books, including the best selling “Winning at New Products”. Dr. Cooper is an ISBM Distinguished Research Fellow at Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business Administration, USA, and Professor Emeritus, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Cooper’s seminars regularly receive top ratings: “Inspiring, profound, captivating, practical and effective!“