Dr Robert Cooper on Innovation and the Future of Stage-Gate

We sat down with Dr Cooper last October to ask him about his take on product innovation's issues such as mitigating risks in new product development projects, accommodating agile methodologies, and unsticking stalled project processes.
Dr Robert Cooper (www.bobcooper.ca) is known worldwide as the inventor of the ubiquitous Stage-Gate methodology for new product development (www.prod-dev.co.... Through in-depth study of the world’s top performers for over 30 years, he has developed unparalleled understanding of what makes companies winners at the product innovation game.