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About
the successful Stage-Gate processes
and specific innovation practices
of leading companies - learn
key steps for how to excel at
idea generation, voice of the
customer, testing and product
launch
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Leadership
practices that can speed decision-making
and impact bottom-line results - how
to move beyond superficial gates
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How Kennametal has
raised the bar and driven innovation
throughout its organization resulting
in an increase in sales from
new products from 17% - 46%
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How
to foster and maintain effective
gates - understand the critical
leadership role of the gatekeeper,
how to support and make the tough
Go/Kill decisions, and realize
the economic benefits of correct
kill decisions
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How EXFO
Engineering drives high
quality gate decisions at the
front-end of the development
process and accelerates time-to-market
in the back-end of their NPD
process.
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About
lean, scalable and flexible Stage-Gate
processes - 'right-size' your
development process to accommodate
varying project needs and resources
and achieve faster time-to-market
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How
to achieve depth and breadth
in four of the critical drivers
of innovation performance including:
innovation strategy, idea-to-launch
process, portfolio management
and organization culture and
leadership
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The
pros and cons of simultaneously
implementing a new idea-to-launch
process and an automated workflow
tool.
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Ansell
Healthcare's successful
approach to evolving its product
definition requirements to
meet strict regulatory & customer
requirements
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How
the Criminal
Justice Information Technology organization
[a trilateral organization serving
3 UK government departments]
dramatically transformed its
investment management practices
by successfully applying a Stage-Gate
process across multiple systems,
implementing selection criteria
that incorporate financial and
business measures with a research
based scorecard, and achieving
accountability by managing investments
on an on-going basis
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The
value of using consumer insights
to develop innovative new products - the
importance of doing high quality
homework in the early stages
of a project to identify and
accelerate the winners
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About Ethicon
Endo-Surgery's integration
of a DFSS product development
process with a Stage-Gate system
and its impact on meeting customer
requirements, delivering innovation
and value for the business
stakeholders, and driving product
differentiation
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How Hydro-Quebec restructured
the management of its R&D
system to finance projects with
higher ROI potential - hear how
they winnowed down their pipeline
from 450 to 65 projects.
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How
leadership can make or break
a successful Stage-Gate system
adoption -- hear what works,
what doesn't and how to remove
obstacles
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What
leading companies are doing to
evolve their idea-to-launch process - how
to achieve a competitive edge
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How
to successfully implement your
Stage-Gate system across multiple
organizations (and functions)
to develop and commercialize
new products
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About P&G's
customized Stage-Gate Process,
SIMPLT (Successful Initiative
Management and Product Launch
model) and its resultant impact
on product development performance.
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Air
Products Packaged Gases
Group's approach to reviving
innovation in a mature market
and business sector - learn
how they successfully integrated
Stage-Gate with critical components
of their integrated product
innovation process including:
project management, market
analysis, Voice of the Customer,
as well as the linkage of front-end
to successful back-end commercialization
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Current
trends (and forward predictions)
on how the changing global business
will impact the future of R&D
organizations
