Stage and Gate Practices for New Product Development

Overview of a Generic Stage Gate Process During the 1990’s and through the 2000’s, "Winning at New Products" by Robert Cooper has served as the bible for product developers everywhere. In his book, Robert Cooper demonstrated with compelling evidence why consistent product development is so vital to corporate growth and how to maximize [...]

2020-12-24T13:04:44-08:00

Benchmarking Best New Product Development Practices

Low overall R&D project commercialization rates prompted Robert Cooper and others to start benchmarking NPD best practices. These were reported in Research Technology Management, February 2004. In their studies they listed 17 best practice topic areas going all the way from ideation through to commercialization. In this work 113 measures were studied across [...]

2020-12-24T13:00:11-08:00
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