News Release
Innovation Management World Authority, Robert G. Cooper, named CHAMPS Lecturer of the Year 2009
ANCASTER, ONTARIO (January 13, 2010) – The Product Development Institute
today announced that its President, Robert G. Cooper, has been named the
CHAMPS ‘Lecturer of the Year 2009’ by the prestigious CHALMERS organization.
As stated in CHALMERS News, December 21, 2009, “Professor Cooper has contributed to numerous CHAMPS
management development programs and seminars and his sessions are recurrently highly appreciated and
receive top evaluation scores. He has combined practical consulting with ground-breaking research for
many years. Award winners are members of CHAMPS faculty who have proven to provide high value to participants
through distinguished content and communicative skills and who are responsive and cooperative in the
design and delivery of training sessions.”
“This is a real honor for Robert Cooper and for Product Development Institute,” said Michelle
Jones, Executive Vice President. “Designing and delivering high quality executive education
is at the heart of our mission to help organizations succeed at improving their product innovation performance.”
Robert Cooper is the creator of the world’s most widely implemented innovation process, Stage-Gate® and
is leading the top-rated executive seminar on Accelerating the Adoption of Stage-Gate Best Practices
on April 21-22, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. This two-day seminar focuses on
how to design and implement an effective and fast-to-market idea-to-launch new
product system modeled on the Stage-Gate process. It is based on principles outlined
in our best-selling book Winning at New Products: Accelerating the Process from
Idea to Launch.
Learn why some companies are so successful at product innovation, why some new
products are big winners, and why so many others are not. This information, based
on the seminar leaders’ extensive and widely-published
research, lead to insights into the ten critical success factors – the ten most important things
that separate winners from losers, which you must build into your new product methodology and system.
For more information on bringing Dr. Robert Cooper to your Corporate Event, or
Stage-Gate International’s public seminars and training events, please contact info@stage-gate.com or
+1-905-304-8797.
About Dr. Robert G. Cooper
 Dr. Robert
G. Cooper is one of the most influential innovation thought leaders in the business
world today. He pioneered the original research that led to his many groundbreaking
discoveries including the Stage-Gate Idea-to-Launch Process. Now implemented by
almost 80% of North American companies, it is considered to be one of the most
important discoveries in the field of innovation management. He has spent more
than 30 years studying the practices and pitfalls of 3,000+ new product projects
in hundreds of companies and has assembled the world’s most comprehensive
research on the topic. His presentations and practical consulting advice have been
widely applauded by corporate and business event audiences throughout the world
making him one of the most sought-after speakers.
A prolific author, he has published more than 100 academic articles and eleven
books, including the best selling Winning at New Products, 3rd Edition. He is
the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the Crawford Fellow from
the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) and the Maurice Holland
Award from the Industrial Research Institute (IRI). Dr. Cooper is a Professor Emeritus
of Marketing and Technology Management at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business
at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and Distinguished Fellow at the Institute
for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM) at Penn State University in Pennsylvania,
USA.
Stage-Gate International
+1-905-304-8797
www.stage-gate.com
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