Colin Palombo is a Managing Partner and Owner of Stage-Gate International and a globally recognized authority on the Stage-Gate Innovation Performance Framework, partnering with senior
executives to build faster, more profitable new product pipelines. He brings over 30 years of global consulting experience across North America, Europe, the Middle East, South America, Korea, and Japan, working with R&D-focused organizations in energy, chemicals, B2B industrials, life sciences, financial services, and high-tech.
Colin helps leadership teams overhaul their innovation operations to leverage the proven key drivers of innovative growth: new product and technology strategy; portfolio resource allocation;
organization design, leadership and culture, Stage-Gate idea-to-launch process; Voice-of-Customer driven innovation; agile product development; and digital and AI-enabled process automation.
Colin is also an Abundance 360 Partner with Singularity University, a former Visiting Professor of Innovation at Strathclyde Business School and has a MBA with distinction from INSEAD and a MA Engineering & Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.
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Innovation Expertise
- New product and technology strategy
- Strategic portfolio management and resource allocation
- Innovation Organization design, leadership and culture
- Lean Stage-Gate idea-to-launch project process® idea-to-launch processes
- Jobs-to-be-done (Voice of Customer) driven innovation
- Agile product development
- Innovation software design and implementation
- AI enablement of Innovation
Industry Experience
30 years experience consulting with companies in the United States, Europe, Middle East, South America, Korea & Japan:
- Energy, chemicals & process industries
- B2B products
- Life sciences
- Financial services
- Hybrid digital & physical solutions