Consultants and Networking Partners

Dr. Robert G. Cooper , Professor

Jens Arleth, Partner, Management Consultant

Claus Varnes, Associate Professor

Per Knudsen, Management Consultant

Herluf Trolle, M.A., Psychology

About our company

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

Jens Arleth, Partner and Management Consultant

BioSketch: Jens Arleth.pdf

	Jens Arleth is the founder and owner of the Innovation Management U3 consulting firm.
	Mr. Arleth is also a principal consultant of the Product Development Institute Inc.
	He is the leading European expert in implementing Stage-Gate^® new-product development processes, Portfolio Management and benchmarking of new product development.

Clients
During the last 25 years, Jens has advised many leading European organisations including Alfa Laval, Akzo Nobel, Carlsberg, Chiquita International Brands, Confederation of Danish Industries , Confederation of Norwegian Industry, Copenhagen Pectin, Danfoss, Enraf B.V., Ferrosan, Hempel's Marine Paints, LEGO, Linak, Maersk Medical, Sonofon, Tele Danmark, Telenor and Uddeholm Tooling AB. He is also the partner of Robert G. Cooper, with whom he has collaborated for over 20 years.

Creator of ProBE® Innovation Benchmarker
Jens Arleth is, in cooperation with Cooper, the creator of ProBE Innovation Benchmarker, which is our tool for benchmarking new product development practices and performance. ProBE^® allows your company to benchmark against our database of several hundred companies and over 2000 projects. It enables you to compare your practices and performance against a typical business and the top 20% in our database. As a result you can develop ways to significantly improve your company's performance.

Honorary offices
Jens Arleth is the former president and co-founder of Danish Association for Product Innovation Management. He is also a board member and the former president of ISPIM (International Society of Professional Innovation Management).

Jens Arleth holds a master's degree in industrial engineering, and a bachelor's degree in marketing.

<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