Stage-Gate® Pilot

Is Stage-Gate right for your new product project? Your program? Your portfolio?

You are trying to find a better way to do new product development. There are many options to evaluate, ranging from anecdotal and unproven to evidence based. How do you decide? Your decision will have a significant impact on your success. You can Experience the world’s most trusted and widely implemented and science-based approach, Stage-Gate, with our easy to apply rapid pilot:

• Enable your organization to transparently determine if a Stage-Gate Model is right for you
  Introduce Stage-Gate new product development best practices to a small, controlled group (a project, a program or a portfolio) in your organization
• Assess the methodology’s potential to impact in-market results and performance at all levels 
  Initiate the buy-in process by engaging a cross-section of key stakeholders

Who is the program for?

• Organizations without a formal innovation management framework currently in place 
• Organizations with a patchwork of inconsistent methods and practices
• Leaders with an important NPD project that could benefit from a Stage-Gate roadmap
• Businesses with customers who demand high maturity capability in new product innovation

4  Immediate Benefits

1. Innovation Executive Sponsor achieves validation, organizational buy-in and alignment to use Stage-Gate as a successful framework 
2. Business Leadership obtains visibility and transparency to influence their innovation investment model
3. Process Leader obtains voice of customer insights to inform the scope of customization, adoption, change management and implementation 
4. Project Leader and Team gains experience using new product development best practices and tools to make an immediate, significant improvement with their project 

Why our program?

No other firm understands the Stage-Gate Methodology and how to correctly tailor the best practices to your particular business environment better than Stage-Gate International Avoid rookie mistakes, work with ,the creators of Stage-Gate and gain access to our experts, experience and our proprietary Body of Knowledge.