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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, SIMPL™ (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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How
ITT doubled
its % of sales from new products with the
introduction of its Value Based Product Development
Program, a complex, global initiative focused on
effectively integrating Voice of the Customer data
throughout the Stage-Gate process.
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Current trends (and
forward predictions) on how the changing global
business will impact the future of R&D organizations
