Accolade NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Standardize and Accelerate New Product Development

Accolade® New Product Development (NPD) transforms product development into a disciplined, data-driven growth engine.

Built on industry best practices and configurable Stage-Gate® workflows, Accolade helps enterprises streamline development, reduce risk, and increase portfolio success.

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With Accolade NPD, enterprises can:

Standardize Stage-Gate® governance across the enterprise

Support industry-specific workflows and regulatory requirements

Reduce time to market through configurable structured automation

Improve decision quality with real-time analytics, reporting, and insights

Align R&D, product, and commercial teams around one system

Trusted by Global Corporations Worldwide

Purpose-built for
Governed Product Development

Accolade New Product Development is a Process Execution module built on Accolade Core. It standardizes and optimizes product development workflows while remaining flexible enough to reflect your industry, operating model, and governance requirements.
From initial concept through launch, Accolade creates a structured, transparent framework that ensures every project follows defined gates, meets compliance requirements, and aligns with enterprise priorities.

It’s structured where it matters and adaptable where it counts.

With Accolade NPD, enterprises can:

Configure industry-specific
Stage-Gate® templates

Govern full new product introductions and incremental enhancements

Automate approvals, reviews,
and risk checkpoints

Identify bottlenecks early with enhanced reporting and analytics

Integrate development data into a unified enterprise innovation system

“About 40% of our portfolio right now are projects that were created in the last 12 months. That is a far more agile, reactive, and dynamic portfolio than we ever had in the past.”

Global Commercialization Lead

Consumer Packaged Goods

“Before we had Accolade, we didn’t know what success metrics meant.”

Innovation Applications Administrator
Manufacturing

“Having the project in one central database is a single source of truth and gives you more information on more possibilities to handle it properly.”

Head of Accolade Program
Electronics, Manufacturing and Pharmaceuticals

Solve Key New Product Development Challenges

Inconsistent Stage-Gate® Execution

Without standardized governance, product development becomes unpredictable. Reviews vary, compliance gaps emerge, and decision-making slows.

Industry-Specific Complexity

Regulatory environments, SKU management, chemical formulations, or industrial engineering constraints require tailored workflows, not generic templates.

Limited Cross-Functional Alignment

When R&D, product management, regulatory, and operations operate in disconnected systems, collaboration breaks down and accountability blurs.

Poor Visibility into Bottlenecks and Risk

Without structured reporting and decision support, risks stay hidden—until timelines slip and costs escalate.

NPD Feature

Industry-Specific Stage-Gate® Processes

Leverage pre-configured Stage-Gate frameworks designed for your industry:

Food & Beverage / CPG

SKU management and portfolio planning templates

Chemicals

Workflows reflecting regulatory and formulation complexity

Industrial Manufacturing

Scalable frameworks for complex engineering initiatives

Life Sciences

Compliance-driven templates for highly regulated environments

Best practices are built in, yet fully configurable to match how your organization works.

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NPD Feature

Core Platform Integration

Accolade NPD integrates seamlessly with Accolade Core and other modules, ensuring development workflows connect directly to portfolio strategy, resource planning, and enterprise reporting.

No silos. No duplicate data. Just one innovation system.

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RESTful API

Set up your tech stack to pull relevant NPD data from Accolade—with no rate limits.

Native MS Office integration

Edit and update Excel sheets in Accolade, tie Outlook emails to projects, collaborate on Teams—Accolade blends with the Microsoft tools you already use.