What is SG Navigator?

SG Navigator is a best-in-class product innovation process saving you both time and money. It is ready-to-customize-and-implement and thus permits you to focus on implementing a new or improved process versus spending valuable time trying to duplicate what numerous other organizations have already refined.

SG Navigator contains:

• Comprehensive, official interpretation of the World-Class Stage-Gate^® Product Innovation Business Process - A Roadmap for New Product Success – as designed by originators Dr. Robert G. Cooper and Dr. Scott J. Edgett
  
• Required beliefs, goals, principles, measurements and behaviors to achieve fast and successful product innovation
  
• A practical, instructional guide, integrating all best practices into detailed, cross functional activities and requirements for each stage and gate for both 5 stage (high risk) and 3 stage (low risk) processes
  
• Complete with more than 50 ready-to-use templates (worksheets and deliverables) to guide each function through the activities required to complete each stage ensuring appropriate effort and alignment from stage-to-stage and across functions

• Complete with clearly defined procedures, roles and responsibilities to ensure high quality gates, 7 research-based scorecards, gate presentations and best in class gatekeeper ground rules
  
• 10 proprietary methods, guides and illustrations designed to simplify complex tasks and challenges such as creating sharp, early product definitions
  
• A Do-it-Yourself Guide and sample project plan to enable quick and successful customization and implementation
  
• Delivered in 2 popular formats, Web and MS Word, to enable easy navigation for all (cross) functional roles involved in the product innovation process
• Content is the result of 20+ years of empirical research, consulting engagements and implementation experience with thousands of companies