Mananagement Consultants and Networking Partners

Jens Arleth, Partner, Management Consultant

Claus Varnes, Associate Professor

Dr. Robert G. Cooper , Professor

About our company

U3 is a member of Danish Management Council (DMR)
and follows DMR's Code of Professional Ethics.

Claus Varnes, Partner and Management Consultant

	Claus J. Varnes joined U3 in 2005 as a member of U3's board of directors and as a part time management consultant.
	Claus is an associate professor at the Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School. He is also PhD in management of innovation. The topic of his doctoral research was performance and organizational influences of management systems for New Product Development.
	Claus J. Varnes holds a Masters degree in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School and has previously been working six years within the industry as assistant to the executive committee, management consultant on strategic design issues and advisor on corporate acquisitions with emphasis on development opportunities and SMEs.

<strong>Improve your growth and profit from new products! </strong><br /> Innovation Management U3 are management consultants and specialists in improving new-product success and reducing time-to-market. U3 has assisted a large number of companies with tools such as Stage-Gate®, innovation benchmarking and portfolio management. We are part of Product Development Institute with partners in Europe and North America. <br /><br /> Improve your new-product performance with Innovation Management U3<br /> Improved new-product performance<br /> Our expert, experienced consultants from Innovation Management U3 have held hundreds of seminars around the world. Usually these seminars have been the start of better new-product development practices which in turn have resulted in higher success rates and shorter time-to-profit. <br /> <br /> <h3>Lean Product Development</h3> <h2>How do I get more through the pipeline?</h2> That's how simply an R&D executive expressed the question he wanted good answers to. He and other participants I spoke with were also looking for answers to questions like: <ul type="circle"> <li>How do we improve our ability to stick to our development plan?</li> <li>How do we increase development productivity and how do we even measure it?</li> <li>How do we speed up the pace and get more for our money</li> <li>How do we introduce LEAN at our company or in just a single project? </li> </ul> You will get the answers to these and other questions at this seminar. In addition to meeting the unusually inspiring professor Cooper, you will meet colleagues from five countries including development managers, product managers, process managers and project leader from companies such as Pfizer (Viagra), Danfoss, Total Petrochemicals, B&O, Haldor Topsøe, Orkla Foods, Masterfoods, et al. © Jens Arleth, 2008