Editor's note: This is the second in a series of three blog posts. Read More

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of three blog posts. Read More

People often ask me about the innovation, new product development, and portfolio management trends I'm seeing in the field. For many years, I saw that companies' first priority was to automate the gated development process. That is, companies needed to automate the process of moving new products... Read More

Innovation is often used when discussing software applications. There are many applications that support or somehow play a role in innovation and yet there are sometimes puzzled looks and misunderstandings when the term innovation is used. One person's view of innovation can be very different than... Read More

Research shows that five barriers impede consumer goods companies from generating more high-value ideas to put into their product pipelines. Below are those barriers, along with suggestions for how to overcome them. Read More

One must consider resource implications when determining an optimal portfolio investment scenario. Insufficient resources available to deliver a given portfolio is the norm, so one must conduct a process to select a subset of the portfolio to be funded. A portfolio funding approach which selects... Read More

To gain the most benefit from their innovation efforts, companies need to manage their innovation process. The early phases of the innovation process – namely, idea gathering, idea development, and idea review – are particularly important to manage because they are typically the “fuzziest” and... Read More

We recently attended the Stage-Gate® Innovation Summit 2013, with this year's theme of “Driving Innovation Performance: Getting Better Results.” Not only was this a great topic that spurred some thoughtful discussions around the innovation challenge, it also supported the idea that companies can... Read More

At the recent Stage-Gate® International Summit 2013, the organizers conducted real-time benchmarking with the attendees between presentation sessions. The attendees were mostly senior leaders in the innovation / new product development areas of the companies they represented – a cross section of... Read More

Much has been written and said about master data. Knowing which system has data, which system is responsible for maintenance of that data, which system is the gold source, which system is responsible for access control, and which approach is to be used to share, access, or replicate data across... Read More