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Outline
Winning at
new products with Stage-Gate

The challenges

  • Overrunning the schedule
  • A huge profit potential!
  • The reasons for success and speed are known!
  • You can design and implement a Stage-Gate® process
    that builds on certain best practices which are proven to lead to success and speed.
    Stage-Gate® works as your checklist to ensure that best practices are really adhered to,
    so each and every project is done right.

    Stage-Gate principles
  • Carefully prepared phases and decision points
  • Speed and more profit
  • A roadmap for project leaders and management
    Rules of the game for an otherwise chaotic process
    Visibility: Everyone uses the same roadmap
    Stage-Gate is based on proven best practices for success
  • Leading companies use Stage-Gate®

  • References
  • Books and articles
  • Recommended Books: Order on-line at http://www.u3.dk
    Winning at New Products: Accelerating the Process from Idea to Launch, 3rd edition (new!) by RG Cooper (Perseus Books, Reading, Mass), paperback, 425 pages. The classic best seller – 3rd edition. Provides an overview of the critical success factors in product development, and outlines the Stage-Gate® process
    Product Leadership: Creating and Launching Superior New Products (Perseus Books, Reading, Mass) 1998. Aimed at the senior executive. Provides an overview of Stage-Gate, portfolio management and developing a product innovation and technology strategy.
    Articles and information at http://www.stage-gate.dk/download.asp
    Articles and information about “Best Practices”, the Stage-Gate-process
    and how to implement Stage-Gate.
  • Why using U3
  • Pace Your Stage-Gate® process will be up and running at least one year earlier than if you work on your own.
    Quality You avoid the weaknesses and outright errors, that
    assurance most people do, whenever they design and implement a Stage-Gate® process for the first time.
    Time Both you and your busy colleagues saves weeks of valuable time doing work, that we can do much faster due to our skill and experience.
  • A team with global experience