STAGE-GATE^® INNOVATION:
Advanced Techniques for Accelerating the
New Product Process for Maximum Productivity

Dramatically Move the Needle of Your NPD Performance

If you have a functioning Idea-to-Launch Process in place and are looking for advanced-level techniques to help you maximize your performance and productivity, this seminar is right for you.

Seminar Focus and Topics:

1. Mastering the Early Business Gates.  How to recognize new product potential and kill poor projects sooner.
2. Matching NPD project types to their most effective and efficient NPD Process. 
   • Project types include; Platform and Technology projects, New-to-Business and/or Market projects, Product Improvements and Customer Orders.   
3. Implementing a robust NPD Process Governance Model – despite unruly gatekeeping behaviors.
4. Advanced techniques for conducting meaningful Post Launch Reviews.
5. Practical solutions to ‘Resource Allocation’. 
   • New, easy-to-use techniques and templates including; Profiling, Resource Capacity Analysis, Bottom-Up Reporting and Gate Checks.   

You Will Learn:

• Next Generation Process Governance Models – what creates and what destroys value.
• The anatomy of a perfect Gate meeting – comprehensive guidelines for determining the ‘who, what, why, where and when’ to consistently drive superior project selection decisions.
• Receive Cooper and Edgett’s recommended ‘Gatekeeper Ground Rules’ designed to engage executives and guide behavior to support the New Product Process.
• Lean Gates with Teeth – how they work and why they engage greater executive participation.    
• ‘Project Triage’ techniques that quickly establish the correct amount of resources, discipline and effort to apply to each new product project type.
• How to right-size your New Product Process to accelerate time-to-market without incurring new costs and risks.
• Why the Process Manager role is so critical and what you can do to maximize their NPD Process performance.
• How to improve stage-to-stage forecasting of cross functional resource requirements and sample, practical tools.
• What the gatekeeper, process manager and project leader should be doing to improve resource allocation.
• How much and what homework you should demand from your project teams during those critical early stages.
• Quality customer input – new, effective techniques to build into each stage of development.  
• How to effectively design ‘spiral development’ into your New Product Process to accelerate time-to-market.