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Cheryl Perkins

Cheryl Perkins

Cheryl Perkins
President and Founder
Innovationedge

BusinessWeek named Cheryl as one of the top 25 Champions of Innovation in the world. As a global innovation thought leader, Perkins brings three decades of experience leading companies as a creative catalyst in brand-building initiatives that contribute to rewarding end-user experiences and breakthrough business performance. Perkins is the author of Conquering Innovation Fatigue and a passionate keynote speaker who inspires audiences all over the world sharing her insights with C-level executives and leaders on crafting winning business strategies, plans, alliances and partnerships for commercial success. Perkins’ 23-year career at Kimberly-Clark propelled her to Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, where she led the company in game-changing innovation and growth.

Highlights

Cheryl Perkins is one of Management Roundtable’s top innovation experts. She currently chairs the highly respected Innovation & Growth Leadership Summit and chaired CoDev, our long-running forum on Open Innovation, since 2008. Cheryl’s expertise includes strategic growth, organizational capability building, collaboration, and __  and she brings unique insight and deep experience with Consumer Packaged Goods, Food & Beverage, and Healthcare industries.

Interview The New Open Innovation Game Plan-Business Models, Culture and Risk,  Oh My!

Expertise

Innovation Strategies, Organizational Effectiveness,  Strategic Partnerships & Collaboration, Environmental Sustainability, Intellectual Assets, …

Case Studies/Videos/Free Downloads

Resources

  • Quick Start Kit?
  • Reports?
  • Self-Assessment Tools

Services offered:

  • Phone consultations
  • Assessments
  • Training/Coaching (inhouse and virtual)
  • Custom consulting

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Wayne Mackey

Wayne Mackey
Wayne Mackey has been a Principal with Product Development Consulting, Inc. since 1997. Prior to joining PDC, he worked in industry for 20 years in high tech, aerospace and automotive fields. He is a natural change agent and leader, having counseled Fortune 500 companies, major universities (Stanford, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon) and government agencies in product development, supply chain management, and rapidly implementing enterprise-wide change. Mr. Mackey also has worked as a senior scientist, program manager, engineering manager and systems engineering manager.

Wayne Mackey’s expertise is grounded in over twenty years of hands-on leadership of large engineering, manufacturing, and procurement organizations. He is co-author of the best selling book Value Innovation Portfolio Management: Achieving Double-Digit Growth Through Customer Value, and co-author of the PDMA Toolbook for Product Development III. Wayne earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and economics from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a Master of Science in engineering, from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

Highlights

Wayne Mackey is an internationally acknowledged expert in metrics, achieving rapid organizational change, partnering and applying the voice of the customer to product development. He became involved with Management Roundtable back when he was an engineering manager at a large aerospace corporation; remarkably, he still thinks like a practitioner – realistic, down to earth, and hands-on. He understands corporate objectives and knows how to achieve buy-in, consensus and continuous improvement.

He describes his approach as follows: “My work is the absolute antithesis of ‘cookie cutter.’ I’m not interested in replicating a formula across all the companies I work with. Every customer is different and every job is different. But I don’t look at just solving today’s problem and walking away — it’s a partnership. To be successful in the long run, companies have to incorporate what they learn from us into the fabric of how they operate.”

Expertise  

Wayne’s main focus areas are collaborative design, metrics, supply chain management, change management, innovation, and business strategy implementation. He can help you achieve results using tools and methods such as:

Articles/Videos/Free Downloads

  • https://pdcinc.com/wayne-mackey-video
  • *NEW* White Paper: Informatics-Enabled Projects DOWNLOAD PDF
  • White Paper: Parametric Schedule Estimation Tool DOWNLOAD PDF
  • White Paper: Market-Driven Product Definition DOWNLOAD PDF
  • Concept Paper: Heads-Up Design DOWNLOAD PDF

Resources

  • Quick Start Kit
  • Reports
  • Self-Assessment Tools

Services offered:

  • Phone consultations
  • Assessments
  • Training/Coaching (inhouse and virtual)
  • Custom consulting

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Dr. Robert Cooper

Dr. Robert 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 many groundbreaking discoveries including the Stage-Gate(R) Idea-to-Launch process. Now implemented by almost 75% 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 thousands 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 120 academic articles and nine books, including the best selling ‘Winning at New Products, 4th 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 President of the Product Development Institute, ISBM Distinguished Research Fellow at Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business Administration, USA; and Professor Emeritus, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Canada.

Highlights

Bob is the renowned ‘father of stage gate’ and now Agile stage-gate.  He is known for his deep expertise in gated processes, portfolio management, and developing winning products.  He recognized the need to update old processes with an Agile Stage Gate hybrid model as speed and customer responsiveness demands have intensified. Most importantly he understands the organizational dynamics that make or break implementation.  His workshops provide the latest, realistic how-to’s to help companies use Agile methods (from the software world) to manufacture physical products.

“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, USA

“…it has been a long time since I’ve walked away from a course with so much useful information and a list of must dos!” —Chuck Williams, Technical Director, Avery Dennison, USA

“Dr. Cooper has already been #1 in NPD for years and makes excellent presentations. He always comes up with practical solutions.” —Dr Mario G.R.T. de Cooker, Senior Technology Advisor, DSM, The Netherlands

 “The professional content of the course is highly relevant and was elegantly presented by Robert Cooper. Especially all good examples and case stories from ‘the real world’ were great!” —Bo Jorgensen, Head of Automotive Product Development, Bang & Olufsen, Denmark

Interview  

Ask the Agile Stage-Gate Expert: What is the role of process manager?

Expertise  

  • Portfolio management
  • Idea-to-Launch Gating Systems
  • Innovation (product, process, technology, strategy)
  • Voice-of-Customer

Articles/Videos/Free Downloads

Videos

Resources

  • Quick Start Kit
  • Reports
  • Self-Assessment Tools

Services offered:

  • Phone consultations
  • Assessments
  • Training/Coaching (inhouse and virtual)
  • Custom consulting

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