Hybrid Innovation Process

Are you torn between a handful of favorite innovation methods?

Many innovation organizations have adopted a patchwork of innovation methods, such as Agile, Blueprinting, Lean Start Up, Design Thinking, Jobs-to-be-Done, Six Sigma and Innovation Canvas.

Each has their merits, but their lack of integration causes confusion and negatively impacts your organization’s innovation performance.

Stage-Gate International’s Hybrid Process program provides an overarching framework that takes the best from each of these methods and combines them into a coherent end-to-end process, allowing everyone to work together efficiently with the same playbook to deliver even better innovation results.  

Who is the program for?

• Organizations with multiple, seemingly competing innovation methods in use by various functions 
• Organizations who have developed significant capability in one innovation method but now want to embrace a more comprehensive model 
• Organizations with a high-performance Stage-Gate process, now adding other businesses that use different methods

4 Immediate Benefits

1. Innovation Executives achieve one comprehensive new product process flexibly used by all
2. Business Leadership achieves improved performance through alignment
3. Functional Leaders have a voice to express the methods and techniques that enable them to perform their craft and bring high quality contribution to new products
4. Project Leader and Teams have multiple points of friction and confusion removed from the new product development process 

Why our program?

We have been implementing the industry standard umbrella governance model for more than 30 years and have integrated just about every function-specific method into process pathways, stages, and gates. No other firm has the breadth and depth of the innovation management space that we have.