Dr. Robert G. Cooper is the creator of the world-famous Stage-Gate® process and an internationally recognized expert in the field of innovation management. He was named the World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar by the prestigious U.S. Journal of Product Innovation Management and won the best seminar leader of the year at Sweden’s Chalmers Institute in Goteborg. He is also a Fellow of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA). He has combined practical consulting with ground-breaking research for many years, published two books and more than 130 articles on R&D and innovation management.
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“Now is the time to re-think the firm’s innovation process and methods,” argues Robert G.Cooper, best known for the development of StageGate, a new product development process that is widely used by multinational organisations.
In his recent paper “Accelerating innovation: Some lessons from the pandemic”, in the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Cooper reviews five approaches to accelerated development and discusses how they have supported rapid new product development during the recent global crisis.
Rapid responders are organizations that are already reviewing the innovation pipeline to detect timely opportunity. In response to new environmental factors and circumstances, they pause briefly and ask this of the projects in their pipeline, “is it time…?”
There are many excellent tools and techniques for R&D management, but all too often people re-invent the wheel as knowledge of these gems is not shared. Here are some of the tools that RADMA trustees and contributors to R&D Today have found useful, but we are keen to know what has been missed or what […]
The biggest thing that separates winners from losers is their ability to understand the marketplace, see the unmet needs of the customer and build the voice-of-the-customer. Dr Robert G Cooper, originator of Stage-Gate discusses success, the impact of Agile of R&D development and his hopes for the future.
Based on their observations of top-performing businesses, Cooper and Edgett’s paper provides a structured framework for strategy development
In theory a stage gate process forces managers to review all aspects of the project – not just the technical work – and to take decisions. You want people to go away feeling pleased to have caught hold of some problems and dealt with them, but too often they just feel grateful to have got out alive!
