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“Creating value — we want fewer, bigger & better projects.”
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“We have difficulty killing and prioritizing projects — too many projects
with too few resources and nothing is getting to market.”
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“We react to any new idea that comes along. We need to be more strategic
about the types of projects we focus on.”
Deciding Your New Product Portfolio:
Making Strategic Choices and Picking Winners
“Businesses that are most
likely to succeed at product
development are those that
have a well-defined new
product strategy and
portfolio management
process in place.”
DR. SCOTT EDGETT
o-Founder and Chief
C
Executive Officer
Compelling two-day seminar focused on selecting
and investing in the right development projects
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DECIDING YOUR NEW PRODUCT PORTFOLIO: Making Strategic Choices and Picking Winners
A MESSAGE
from Michael Phillips
What You Will Learn at this Seminar
Maximizing the return on your product
innovation investments hinges entirely on an
organization’s ability to consistently pick the
right development projects, technologies and
platforms to invest in. This is no easy task.
New Product Portfolio Management is fast
becoming the most effective way to simplify
this complex process — especially when
coupled with a clearly defined Product
Innovation Strategy.
Maximize Your New Product Portfolio’s Value and Importance
Your company can drive more value and
productivity into your portfolio of product
innovation projects. Attend this seminar and
learn how to double your portfolio’s value
simply by using productivity metrics when
selecting projects and by reallocating
resources to fewer projects. Learn how to
link your new product portfolio to your
company’s strategy so it produces meaningful competitive advantages. Join us for this
seminar and learn how to ensure scarce
resources are consistently allocated to the
most meritorious and strategic projects.
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Meaningful
metrics and charts to use to optimize your portfolio’s value
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Strategic
Buckets and Product Roadmaps – why top performers rely heavily on
these practices
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Techniques
for ‘cleansing’ your new product portfolio – selecting the ‘best’ projects
Best regards,
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P ractical ways to link your New Product Portfolio to your company’s strategic
priorities
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A
simple method for creating a Product Innovation and Technology Strategy –
deciding on which markets, technologies and products to focus your efforts
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enchmarks, research and real-company examples of strategies that outperform
Yield a High-Value, Balanced Portfolio that Optimizes Resources
Accelerate Adoption of Portfolio Management Best Practices
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Facilitate
effective, successful project selections – a governance model with key
roles defined
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Five
goals in Portfolio Management and the best practices to achieving them
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How
to instill accountability and ownership
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The
best metrics, charts and dashboards for decision-making
Leave the Seminar with answers to your toughest new product portfolio challenges
THIS EVENT IS FOR YOU IF...
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ou are responsible for developing and executing strategic ­direction for product innovation
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ou are accountable to improve innovation performance
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ou are tasked with implementing portfolio management initiatives
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ou are responsible for maximizing returns on product innovation efforts
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ou lead the development and ongoing improvement of ­innovation management processes
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ou are a product innovation professional from R&D, ­Product ­Innovation, Marketing,
­Engineering, Business ­Development or ­Business Process Improvement
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AG EN D A
DAY ONE
DAY TWO
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 Welcome and Introductions
8:15 Review of Issues from Day One
8:45 Defining Strategy and the Impact of a Product
8:30 Best Practices in Portfolio Management (cont.)
•V
aluing risky and high-uncertainty projects
•D
etermining probabilities of success
Innovation Strategy on Business Performance
•M
easureable impacts of a clearly articulated product
­innovation strategy – what you stand to gain
• T he key elements of a product innovation strategy
9:15Team Exercise: Identifying major challenges
10:00 Networking Break
10:15
Crafting a Product Innovation Strategy, Part I
• Realistic goal-setting for product innovation
• Establishing meaningful metrics to measure results
• Defining strategic arenas – focus your R&D efforts
11:45Team Exercise: Developing an innovation strategy
12:15 Networking Lunch
1:15Crafting a Product Innovation Strategy, Part II
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aking key deployment decisions – strategic buckets to
ensure the right mix
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reating your strategic product roadmap
3:00 Networking Break
3:15Team Exercise: Buckets & roadmaps – key take-aways
3:45
A World-Class Idea-to-Launch Process –
A Pre-Requisite for Portfolio Management
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ey elements of a Stage-Gate® process
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aking sure the gates are in place
9:00 Best Practices in Portfolio Management: Part II
• Non-financial approaches to select projects
• Getting the right mix and balance of projects
10:15 Networking Break
10:30Team Exercise: Portfolio best practices – key take-aways
11:15 Best Practices in Portfolio Management, Part III
• Strategic alignment – so that your pipeline portfolio
mirrors your business’s strategic priorities
• Achieving a balance between required and available
­resources – capping the number of projects
• Ensuring that your portfolio of projects meets your
overall NPD goals
12:00Team Exercise: Key learnings and actions
12:30 Networking Lunch
1:30 Developing a Portfolio Management System
• Forging the link between project selection, your development process and innovation strategy
•D
eciding on strategic buckets – how to define them
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sing scorecards, real options and the productivity
index to prioritize projects effectively
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etting the gates working
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chieving alignment and the right project mix
4:15Team Exercise: What’s ­stopping us
3:00 Networking Break
4:45
Introduction to Best Practices in Portfolio
3:15 Implementing Portfolio Management
•K
ey tips and hints on how to design and implement a
portfolio management system
Management, Part I: Maximizing Value
• The five goals of portfolio management
•C
orrect methods to maximize the value of your portfolio:
Financial techniques and the productivity index
5:15 Wrap-up and Q&A
3:45 Team Exercise: Next Steps
4:00 Wrap-Up and Q&A
4:15 End of Seminar – Beginning of Implementation!
I N SI D E T HIS 2-DA Y EVEN T
A compelling two-day seminar on how to define areas of strategic
focus for your company’s product development efforts — where to
invest and which areas to avoid — to better direct selection decisions:
• Interactive participation, including question-and-answer and
discussion opportunities; smaller class size for more interaction
• Networking opportunities
• Numerous case studies, illustrations, and real company examples
• Templates, roadmaps, guidelines and checklists
• Take-away seminar manual of presentation materials full of tips and hints
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Fee includes all seminar materials,
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Deciding Your New Product Portfolio: Making Strategic Choices and Picking Winners
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Winning at New Products: Proven Roadmap for Success
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• Benchmarks, research and real-company examples of strategies that outperform • Maximize the return on your new product innovation investments
• Learn how to conceive, develop and launch winning new products
• Learn the Stage-Gate Process and accelerate time-to-market
Evolving Your Stage-Gate® Innovation Process
• Evaluate your process against the 6 critical traits of the modern process
• Bust bureaucracy and develop core skills needed in a modern process
Implementing and Sustaining Your Idea-to-Launch Innovation Process: A Best
­Practice Approach
• Discover what is needed for ­organizational and personal implementation success
• Learn how to sustain idea-to-launch innovation performance
Developing Products the Market Really Wants
• Find out how to clearly and succinctly communicate a holistic product definition in
each stage
• Learn practical tips to reduce time-to-market and prevent project scope creep
How to Create a Compelling Business Case for New Products
Alternatively:
• Send a substitute, or
• Receive the workshop materials
Enhance Your Learning: Enrich your
Stage-Gate Innovation Summit
experience by attending the Stage-Gate
International seminar Winning at New
Products: Proven Roadmap for S­ uccess.
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Questions? Please contact Sue Phillips
at sue.phillips@stage-gate.com or
+1-905-304-8797.
• Learn the three critical components needed when building a business case
• Discover key elements needed for each stage of development to communicate
­business rationale for the project
• Receive strategic and tactical advice on innovation trends from the world’s top
­innovation experts
• Network with seasoned innovation champions who share a common goal to
­improve their new product process p
­ erformance
Visit www.stage-gate.com for more information about our
highly-rated product innovation events
Professional Development Innovation Series
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