Gate Governance

Do you have Gates with Teeth?

You have a well-designed new product process in place and the teams embrace it.  Yet you are struggling to achieve the desired innovation results. Equally concerning is that your business leaders are not engaged in innovation or in your portfolio of new products. 

As go the Gates, so goes the Process. Our Gate Governance service focuses on what is typically the weakest area in most organization’s new product process, well-designed Gates with Teeth.

Who is the service for?

• Organizations that have a well-defined new product process for teams but lack best practice structure around gate decision points 
• Organizations who have evolved their new product development program to a much more diverse portfolio of new products, but have not assessed its impact on new product development Gate governance
• Organizations that are growing their global footprint for new product development and have complex organization structures and decision rights.

5 Immediate Benefits

Innovation sponsors, decision-makers and teams achieve immediate benefits by applying the Gate Governance program in their organization. Which of the following benefits are on your priority list?

1. Focus
2. Transparency
3. Managed Expectations 
4. Speed
5. Higher Value Portfolios 

Why our service?

We were the first to validate, through research, the high impact role of the business leader/senior manager in new product and technology innovation. Our resulting proprietary solution – the unique decision method called Gates, integrated into the new product development process at precisely the right points to accelerate the winners and fail fast with the losers.