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Customer Reviews

“Robert G. Cooper’s seminars are inspiring, profound, captivating, practical and effective: ready to use knowledge for your company."

Richard Wenk,
Director of Innovation Management,
Leica Geosystems AG, Switzerland

“Outstanding! Bob’s experience and expertise is unmatched. He has the ability to illustrate what works - with data and with stories. This helps me decide how to use the information to make our process better.”

Dr. Dave Mirth
Vice President, Innovation
Owens Corning

"Bob Cooper’s pioneering work has set the standard for excellence in product development."

Dr. Barry Siadat,
former Chief Technology Officer, Honeywell Corp, USA

“The professional content of the seminar is very relevant and the way it was presented by Robert Cooper was elegant – the content was interesting and he managed to hold the participants’ attention. Especially, all the good examples and histories from ‘the real world’ were great!"

Bo Jürgensen,
Senior Vice President, R&D
Bang & Olufsen Denmark

“This seminar was outstanding. Unlike other training where I’ve picked up various metrics or best practices, I have learned an industry agnostic methodology.”

Carl McGowan, Portfolio Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company

“Dr. Robert Cooper is the definitive authority on
Stage-Gate® and Portfolio Management, two processes which drive product innovation. When I introduce new employees to these critical processes, I send them to Bob because I only want my people trained by the best”.

James H. Godsey, PhD
Senior Vice President, R&D
Digene Corporation

“Stage-Gate International’s Portfolio Management for New Products seminar is by far one of the most professionally run and useful seminars I have attended in my 20 years with DuPont. Within days of returning to the office I was putting to use the tools and teachings that were covered in the session. Based on my very positive impressions of their approach to New Product Development best practices, I am looking forward to participating in additional Stage-Gate® seminars and will recommend that others in our organization do so as well.”

Pete Hollberg
Certified MBB, BB,
Product Development
Dupont

“The Implementation Strategy and Plan was an ‘Ah-ha’ moment. We are in the beginning stages and realized how under resourced our plan is.”

Deborah C. Phipps,
Manager Market Development,
ILC Dover

“ Excellent seminar – good group of attendees, great instructors – powerful, valuable material!”

Kathy Dickson
Product Adoption Manager
Mannington Mills Inc.

“Bob has a great delivery style – just the right mix of theory & fundamentals, practical applications and ‘real life’ examples.”

Rob Reale
Director Technology and Solutions,
Direct Energy Business Services

“Wonderful presenters, great enthusiasm, helpful checklists an invaluable experience.”

Nancy Bach,
AVP Product Development,
Household Financial

“Great seminar – very valuable.”

Bernd Becker, Vice President, Product Development and Quality Control,
Timex Corporation

“Excellent seminar! I found the discussions on Front-End Loading, Product Definition and Customer Focus most valuable. Bob’s knowledge, energy and stories made this seminar an invaluable experience. I would definitely recommend this seminar to others.”

Bob Cook
Research and Development Director,
Clorox

“Bob Cooper is an academic with a ‘hard hat’ – his concepts are thoroughly research-based and yet his experience is practical and implementation focused.”

Scott R. Foust,
SVP ,
First Data Corporation

“This course provides valuable insights to ensuring a successful implementation of the Stage-Gate process for any size organization thinking of getting into the game.”

Ricky Singh, Ph.D, Director, Consumer Brands Product Development,
Schwan Food Co.

“Very useful and informative”.

Jane Howard, Process Analyst,
First Data

“I have attended three Stage-Gate International seminars. In all seminars, the entire team is very knowledgeable, professional, passionate and best-in-class in everything they do! The materials are well-organized and extremely informative.”

Wally Slone,
SVP Business Solutions,
Fresenius Product and Hospital Group

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