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Taming the Beast of Project Portfolio Management
The complexity of project and portfolio selection is a restless beast. But we can tame the monster by implementing the proven process of The New Discipline of Project Portfolio Management. A...
The Top 5 Pitfalls that Derail Corporate Decision Making
Despite the wealth of information available to us these days, many of today’s best and brightest business leaders still make poor decisions. This is unfortunate, because sound decision making is at...
The Value of a PPM Central Data Repository
"Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward." -Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher History captured Europe was plunged into the dark ages after the fall of Ancient Rome....
Payback on Product Portfolio Management
Many companies who have implemented the new discipline project and portfolio capability have discovered their “Acres of Diamonds.” When implemented well, the return on a proven PPM capability can...
Product Portfolio Management as a Business Process
At its core, Product Portfolio Management is about enabling better decision making. In our next series of blog posts, Michael Menard, co-founder and president of GenSight, shares his insights into...
Podcast: Gatekeeping and Scorecards
In our question and answer session with Stephen Bridge, we discuss the role of the Gatekeeper, how to make gate decisions and how scorecards can facilitate this process. Transcript: Good morning. My...
Cost Forecasting in New Product Development
New Product Development begs a lot of money questions. Such as, how much will the total project cost? What is the estimated timing and profitability? How many years will it take to get your...
What’s New in Enterprise Innovation Management?
Getting new projects to market is complex and problematic and requires good management and good tools. Enterprise Innovation Management allows you to repeatedly get the best ideas to market more...
Speed is Everything: Accelerating New Product Development
In our final blog post in the series exploring the 5 Key Ingredients to Fuelling a Successful Product Launch, we look in closer detail at the importance of speed, and ways in which you can...
The Importance of Appropriate Governance when Launching a New Product
In the fourth part of our Blog series, 5 Key Ingredients to Fueling a Successful Product Launch we explore Appropriate Governance, what it means and why it is so important. The best innovating...
Managing Risk in New Product Development
In the third blog of our five-part series, 5 Key Ingredients to Fueling a Successful Product Launch we examine how to successfully manage risk in new product development. Part 3: Managing Risk The...
How to Prioritize Effectively
In our second blog post from the series, 5 Key Ingredients to Fueling a Successful Product Launch, we will be exploring how to prioritize effectively. From individual projects to the whole...
Collaboration and Communication – The Key to Success
Innovation has become a key concern for many business executives; everyone wants to do more of it, but few are quite sure how to. So how can large established companies effectively sustain corporate...
5 Key Ingredients to Fueling a Successful Product Launch
Organizations today are under immense pressure to deliver innovation to market faster than ever before. But how can large established companies effectively sustain corporate innovation? And are they...
Stage Gate Software
The range of software tools to support stage gate is extensive. To help guide you through the maze of options we suggest three broad areas or types of tool that you may wish to consider....
Implementation of Stage Gate
In the sixth post from our seven-part Stage Gate series, we examine how to effectively implement a Stage Gate process and explore the keys to success. Process Design Stage Gate is not a one size...
Stage Gate and Decision Making
What are the keys to effective decision making? In the fifth blog post of our Stage Gate series, we explore each of them in turn. Objectivity Decision making is hard, and it is a natural human...
Gates and How to Operate Them
In the fourth post from our 7-part series exploring Stage Gate, we examine each of the Gates in the Stage Gate process. The actual process of making decisions at gates is termed a gate review, or a...
Stages and Deliverables
In the third post from our 7-part series exploring Stage Gate, we examine each of the five stages in the Stage Gate process. The basic idea of stage gate models is to break the project down into key...
Stage Gate Models
In the second post from our 7-part series exploring Stage Gate, we examine the core principles of Stage Gate. The basic idea of stage gate models is to break the project down into key stages, each...
What is Stage Gate?
Stage Gate is a Discovery-to-Launch Process, and the ‘industry standard’ for managing product innovation, used by companies of all sizes around the world. Stage Gate is not new. The techniques for...
What is Agile Innovation?
Agile Innovation has become a buzz word for many business executives; everyone wants to do more of it, but few are quite sure how to. But what exactly is Agile Innovation? The term Agile first...
What are the Benefits of Product Portfolio Management?
Every company wants to produce and maintain leading edge products, but picking the right projects is critical and complex, which means you need the right tools. Portfolio Management is about...
The Innovation Process – The Key to Success
Successful new product development is not easy – you must blend creativity, research, ideas, problem solving – with realistic project management and business planning. So how do you make all this...