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Dr. Robert Cooper, Product Innovation Guru, and Microsoft Corporation release White
Paper focused on growing your business through successful Product Innovation
ANCASTER, ONTARIO, CANADA – December 1, 2005 The Product Development Institute, today
announced the release of a Microsoft White Paper authored by Dr. Cooper which focuses on
what is believed to be the most important challenge facing businesses today – achieving
growth through successful product innovation.
The White Paper ‘Winning at New Products: Pathways to Profitable Product Innovation’ explores
the proven methods and techniques used by the world’s most successful and innovative
companies.
“The best performing innovators take a profoundly different approach to product innovation,” reports
Dr. Cooper. “Through studying and working with these companies I have pinpointed four
distinct drivers of success: product and innovation technology strategy, new product portfolio
management, product innovation process, and climate. Taking an integrative approach to all
four drivers is a key discovery as well as the proven practices and techniques used within
each of the four drivers”.
Dr. Cooper has developed an approach he calls The Innovation Diamond™
which illustrates how companies of all sizes can implement the same practices that have been
working for top performing innovators for years. The Diamond demystifies the complex and
risky business of product development and can be used by business executives to guide their
efforts to achieve growth through successful new products.
Microsoft Corporation has engaged Dr. Cooper to deliver several keynote presentations on
the topic to key internal stakeholder groups as well as to several of their customers.
About Product Development Institute
Product Development Institute (www.prod-dev.com) is dedicated to helping companies improve
their approach to new product development and portfolio management. Led by internationally
recognized experts in the field of product development, Drs. Robert Cooper and Scott Edgett,
PDI provides Executives and Managers with a wide range of products and services aimed at
improving companies' new product success rates. Cooper and Edgett have worked with more
than 800 businesses, including most Fortune 500 companies, and have compiled the largest
knowledge-base on Product Development best-practices in the world.
For further information contact:
Valerie Sather, Innovation Product Specialist
T. 905-304-8798
F. 905-304-8799
E.
W. www.prod-dev.com
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