What Goes Wrong When Stage Gates Fail—and How to Fix It If your stage gating process feels like trying to get through overcrowded toll booths – then something is not working – and you need...

Setting the Stage for Smarter Transformation – How SaaS can power Stage Gating Using stage gates to guide your initiatives through to completion is like guiding a ship through rough waters using...

KPIs that matter – measuring success for your initiative You’ve created a great initiative. Everyone has agreed to the initiative, resources are in place – things are looking good. But before you...

Idea Feedback Loops: “Closing the Loop: Why Feedback Fuels Idea Programs” If you host a dinner party and ask your guests to bring their favorite dish – but instead of serving the dishes,...

Stage gating is used to manage an initiative through it’s lifecycle and is used to ensure that the initiative needs to pass through each gate before being allowed to progress to the next stage. The number...

When we’re defining an initiative a really useful exercise is to define the current state and then what we want the future state to look like. This helps frame what exactly needs to be changed and the...

First, why even create an implementation plan ? what do we achieve  ? The main reason for completing a good implementation plan is to provide key stakeholders with sufficient information to make a ‘Go’,...

Continuous Improvement is very focused on reducing waste in a system. A lot of the processes in a Continuous Improvement system are designed to find waste through Go See observations, determine how to...