The Stage-Gate^® Product Innovation process has been referred to as the single most important discovery in product innovation – empowering almost 80% of all North American companies to achieve improved returns on their product development dollars and to achieve new growth.

When implemented properly, Stage-Gate delivers tremendous impact:

• Accelerates speed-to-market
• Increases likelihood of product success
• Introduces discipline into an ordinarily chaotic process
• Reduces re-work and other forms of waste
• Improves focus via gates where poor projects are killed
• Achieves efficient and effective allocation of scarce resources
• Ensures a complete process – no critical steps are omitted