New Article Effective Gating: Make Product Innovation More Productive By Using Gates With Teeth by Dr. Robert G. Cooper Most firms suffer from having far too many projects in their product development pipelines, for the limited resources available. Worse yet, the great majority of initiatives are low value projects to the corporation. While your company might have a Stage-Gate® system, the gates – vital decision making and resource allocation points – often lack teeth. This new article, published in Marketing Management Magazine this month, explains how “Gates with Teeth” help to prune the development portfolio of weak projects and deal with a gridlocked pipeline. If you have more projects than resources you will benefit from reading this article. Read Article. Michelle Jones, EVP

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