Stage-Gate Inc. Innovation Seminars: Must Attend For Senior Managers

1.  Lean, Rapid and Profitable New Product Development

With time-to-market so critical, can you really afford to have time-wasters in your system?

Although many companies have introduced a new product process, they are still struggling to get the financial results they expected. Productivity – the profit achieved versus the cost and time to do projects - is far below what it should be. Projects take too long, the development pipeline is clogged with too many projects and, more often than not, key projects are not properly resourced. Even worse, launched products often fail to generate much excitement in the marketplace, and fail to achieve major profits.

The culprit, according to world-renown innovation experts, Dr. Robert G. Cooper and Dr. Scott J. Edgett, is a product innovation system fraught with time wasters and innovation blockers.    

Date:	Tuesday April 24- Wednesday April 25, 2007
Location:	New York, NY

2.  Technology Developments, Platforms & Fundamental Research

The fact is that traditional systems just don’t work for Technology Development Projects. Why?

Traditional new product processes are designed for fairly well defined and predictable projects.  However, TD projects are, by their nature, high risk with many unknowns and great technical uncertainties. 
Since TD projects are a special class of projects where the deliverables is new knowledge, new technology, a technical capability or a technological platform, using a traditional management technique on these projects can cause much frustration on the part of the project team and will result in unnecessary or irrelevant work, and could even kill an otherwise high-profit potential initiative. 

Learn how Technology Development projects are the foundation for new products and new processes and make up a vital component for your organization.  In this hands-on seminar, you will learn:

1. How to evaluate Technology Development projects
2. How Technology Development feeds new product development projects
3. How to address the degree of technological and financial risk and uncertainties with Technology Development projects
4. How the Applications Pathways should determine the appropriate routing transfers of new Technology
5. How worksheets and deliverables are essential for each Stage and Gate

Date:	Thursday April 26, 2007
Location:	New York, NY

3.  Successfully Designing and Implementing the Stage-Gate Process

Your company can win at new products – make sure your Stage-Gate System is authentic! 

Successfully launching a new product or service is one of the most complex projects an organization can undertake.  However, by using an authentic Stage-Gate system to guide your efforts, you can dramatically increase your success rates while reducing costs and time to market.  It is well worth it to implement a best practice Stage-Gate system according to numerous research studies including the recent PDMA Benchmarking Study, which reports that the best performers are using sophisticated or third-generation Stage-Gate processes. 

Stage-Gate works because a significant number of proven practices are built in – completing the right amount of upfront homework, building in the voice of customer, making the tough go/kill decisions and so on.  Understand what truly drives world-class performance – the 10 critical success factors – and, the most effective and efficient way to organize the many best practices into a system that helps you to be successful.  Avoid common and costly mistakes and leverage the experience of thousands of companies that have implemented Stage-Gate before you. 

Date:	Tuesday June 5 to Thursday June 7, 2007
Location:	Alexandria, VA

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