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News Release
The
Stage-Gate® Process - Celebrating 20 Years of Innovation
Performance
ANCASTER,
ONTARIO, CANADA – February 18, 2005 - A milestone is
celebrated at Stage-Gate Inc., a member company of the Product
Development Institute, as 2005 marks the 20 year anniversary
of the authentic Stage-Gate® process. Created
by Dr. Robert G. Cooper, the world's foremost expert in
Product Innovation, the 1st Generation Stage-Gate
process made its debut in 1985. Since then, the Stage-Gate
process has revolutionized the way companies innovate and
develop new products and technologies. No other approach
to Product Innovation has achieved such well-documented
success over a period of 20 years.
Today,
nearly 75% of North American organizations are using a Stage-Gate
process to drive Product Innovation largely due to the widely
available, best selling book Winning at New Products, 3rd
Edition. In January 2005, a commercially available
Stage-Gate Process Manual has become available specifically
for those organizations who wish to advance their Stage-Gate
process performance as a competitive advantage thus requiring
a much more sophisticated level of intellectual property
beyond that shared by Dr. Cooper in his books.
The
collective works of Dr. Cooper and Dr. Edgett are highly regarded
world-wide and are considered to be the leading source of
knowledge in Product Innovation.
- Thought-leadership:
Dr. Cooper and Dr. Edgett have been instrumental in discovering
and introducing world class solutions such as the Stage-Gate
Process for Technology Development, the concept of Portfolio
Management for New Product Development, and the Product
Innovation and Technology Strategy framework.
- Key
Research: Dr. Cooper and Dr. Edgett are responsible for leading
one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive
ongoing research studies, the NewProd™ Research Series.
This series has produced one of the most important discoveries
in the industry to date - uncovering the key discriminators
between new product success and failure.
- Best
Selling Publications such as Best Practices in Product
Innovation which reveals the impact of performance
drivers on innovation and contains in-depth case studies
of top performing organizations such as Bausch & Lomb
and Kraft Foods.
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About Stage-Gate Inc.
Stage-Gate Inc., a member company of the Product Development Institute, is
mandated very specifically to enable product innovators to become better product
innovators. Our international team of Product Innovation Experts and Consultants
are mentored by Dr. Cooper and Dr. Edgett and understand the complex challenges
organizations face. We help companies achieve product innovation through our
world-class products and services.
Through its close working relationship with the Product Development Institute,
Stage-Gate Inc. has access to the world’s most comprehensive research
into best practices in Product Innovation. This research has led to some of
the most important discoveries in the innovation field; such as, Stage-Gate®,
the NewProd™ Studies, and the concept of Portfolio Management.
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