InnovationEdge and Pure Insight Webinars

How to successfully Implement your Phase-Review process

DATE: 08 MAY 2008 10:00 - 11:00 ET

location: your office

What You Will Learn

• How to integrate Stage-Gate with pre-existing processes and procedures.
• What roles, responsibilities, skills and training are required.
• Which culture change and communication issues you will face.
• What the timing and workload issues are.
  

About this webinar

There is broad agreement that innovation, be it in terms of new technologies, new products or new service offerings, is increasingly important.

Certainly product life cycles are shortening and customer expectations are growing. And yet recent studies have shown that the return from investment in innovation is incredibly variable. Organizations are ploughing huge amounts of resources into the next generation of products and services with no confidence of a result.

Best practices do exist. Practices that consistently prove to be more successful delivering better products, better services and better profits. One of these best practices is the disciplined use of Stage-Gates as the program management platform for Development projects. Stage-Gates are certainly not the only technique, nor are they necessarily sufficient in isolation, but Stage-Gate® processes have proven to be fundamentally different and more effective than traditional project management approaches.

Whether you have an established Stage-Gate® process which needs revitalising, or whether you need to start from scratch, if you need to improve the design of your Stage-Gate® process then this webinar is required listening. The session will focus on some of the key criteria that need to be put in place in order to design a successful Stage-Gates program in your organization.

Though created as a session in it's own right, this is the third in an in-depth series of three webinars targeted at senior leaders to provide practical strategies and tools for ensuring the successful implementation of Stage-Gate®. The toolbox covers elements of strategy, processes, metrics and culture to enable company leaders to decide whether and how to invest in Product and or Service development through this globally acknowledged NPD process.

Preview the Stage-Gate series by clicking HERE.

"Stage-Gate® is a legally registered trademark of the Product Development Institute Inc.”

In this session, the speaker will:

• Introduce the critical success factors when implementing a new Stage-Gate process.
• Describe a range of pragmatic and proven solutions to addressing these factors.
• Describe how to integrate the Stage-Gate process implementation with Process Improvement initiatives in other areas.

By attending you will:

• Understand the critical factors that are most likely to determine the success of your implementation program.
• Be able to develop an implementation program that addresses these factors.
• Be able to form links with other process improvement initiatives.

about the speaker

Peter Hoyland is Managing Director of Bubble Group Ltd. A Chartered Engineer and a graduate of Oxford University, he began his career as a product developer for Thorn EMI and later for FKI plc.  He was an early adopter of Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) methods and became responsible for both mechanical design and manufacturing engineering.

DFMA was a popular technique, but as phased gate programs increasingly became best practice for program management, he moved into consultancy to establish and implement better approaches to new product development.

In 1999, after ten years working for major consultancy companies, Hoyland became a founder of Bubble, a management consultancy focused on improving new product development processes. A few clients Hoyland work with are: Cadbury, Dairy Crest, Rolls Royce, Johnson & Johnson, The Ministry of Defence, Toyota and Waterford Crystal.