The Stage-Gate Navigator™ Product… A Look Inside
Operational Idea-to-Launch Roadmaps apply the value-adding functional and cross-functional activities in the Stage-Gate sequence proven to drive the best in-market success.
Practical Worksheets guide the seamless integration of three key developments: Product (develop a winning product), Project (maximize team effectiveness) and Business (maximize business impact).
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Executive Summary Gate Deliverable Templates facilitate robust investment evaluations and rich alignment discussions that engage senior managers during Gates.
Genuine Gate Meeting Formats guide focused, objective, fact-based decision making, project prioritization and resource allocation.
Purpose-Built Design emphasizes speed through rapid and informed decision making at the business, project and product levels:
- Go/Kill Gate decisions
- Cross-functional collaboration and trade-off decisions
- Rapid product prototyping and definition iterations
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Source: Stage-Gate Navigator™
Examples bring life to the worksheets and templates by setting quality expectations.
Process Learnings Feedback Loop captures valuable process improvement ideas one Post Launch Review retrospective at a time, so the organization can benefit from the retained learnings in Stage-Gate Navigator.
The many ways companies use Stage-Gate Navigator™
- Guide product development projects that are aligned to the business strategy, but are new to the company
- Apply the best practice model to an important project(s) to increase the likelihood of market success
- Apply it to an active project(s) to determine/validate the appropriate amount of process rigor to apply given the project’s risk assessment
- Use it to guide a Product Development Process Design Initiative to align multiple units using different product development processes into one common, robust and flexible Stage-Gate Model
- Reference the numerous best practices to troubleshoot project challenges
- Accelerate the configuration of your software application with a high quality Stage-Gate Process blueprint
Benefits of using Stage-Gate Navigator™
- Improve the quality and execution of all product development projects immediately
- Respect and coordinate all functions effectively by using the unbiased Stage-Gate Model (opposed to forcing all functions to adopt another function’s development method)
- Save time, money and effort by overcoming typical obstacles faced when trying to transform your innovation process into a fast effective new product development process
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