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Stage-Gate® Web Guide: A Practical System
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A guide to faster and more profitable projects
The top 25% of companies turn 78% of their new products into money-makers. Their secret is consistent use of certain proven best practices. The Stage-Gate® Guide helps you implementing and maintaining these practices in your company.
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Flexible web format:
The guide is organised as a web portal with instructional HTML files and templates in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The material is easy to customise for your own company. |
The Stage-Gate® Guide is a practical process manual and a toolset providing the following:
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a collection of proven, validated best practices derived from scientific studies of over 2000 projects and 300 companies, |
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the essence of 15 years of experience from a large number of Stage-Gate implementations in leading companies in many types of businesses and countries in Europe and North America, |
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assistance in increasing the percentage of successful development projects and shortening the time from idea to profitable business, |
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flexibility: organised in web format with access to files in Microsoft® Word that can be modified and adapted to your company. |
The father of Stage-Gate® is the internationally recognised product development guru Robert G. Cooper of Canada.
Jens Arleth has cooperated with Cooper for 25 years and is the leading Stage-Gate® expert in Europe where he has assisted a large number of companies with this process. The Stage-Gate Guide was developed by Jens Arleth based on Cooper's principles and Arleth's experience from implementing Stage-Gate® in many European companies. The Stage-Gate® principles are described at www.stage-gate.eu and in Cooper's bestseller book Winning at New Products. You can order this book here.
Guide contents
The guide is organised as a web portal with instructions in HTML files and files in Microsoft Word format. The guide describes:
Objectives, principles and organisation according to Stage-Gate®
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A description of the Stage-Gate process and the objectives and the principles it builds on |
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The types of projects the guide is intended for and the types it should not be used for |
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Definitions of all stages and gates |
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How to organise development including the roles and responsibilities of the project leader, project team, gatekeepers and process manager |
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Interaction and conflicts between project tasks and day-to-day work |
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The principles of and methods of gate-keeping, i.e. go/kill decision-making on development projects and prioritising projects |
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Follow-up on projects and metrics for measurement of new-product performance. |
Detailed description of the development process
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Detailed descriptions of each Stage including specifications of the objectives, tasks and results the team must deliver by the end of each Stage to enable management to make a well-founded decision on the fate of the project |
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Detailed descriptions of each Gate or decision including the definition of the decision and the decision-maker, as well as criteria for making the go/kill decision |
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Ideas handling: idea form and criteria for selecting the best ideas. |
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© Jens Arleth, 2010
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