Stage Gate vs Growth Innovation
Leveling Up Your Innovation Methodology

What You'll
Learn
- Why Stage-Gate is one function of innovation management but doesn't completely solve for innovation’s black box problem
- How growth innovation transforms Stage-Gate into a more powerful function by delivering transparency
- How to get your organization prepped for the growth innovation conversation.
Stage-Gate® and Innovation’s Black Box Problem
Traditionally, enterprise innovation has been shrouded in mystery. Enterprises have visibility on innovation’s inputs and outputs.
Money and resources go in, and new products and markets come out. But how does that innovation machine tick inside? That’s a black box.

How Growth Innovation Transforms Stage-Gate®
By reframing how your enterprise views innovation’s role, you can address many of the problems attributed to your methodology while improving the disciplines associated with innovation — including your methodology.
Growth Innovation sets growth as the single most important innovation outcome and manages every step of the innovation process. accordingly.

How to Start the Growth Innovation Conversation
Growth innovation requires a paradigm shift, and introducing this shift isn’t going to happen overnight. Moreover, it requires an investment in enablement tools that can facilitate this paradigm shift.
In this ebook we'll outline how you can kickstart this conversation.

Ready to Take Stage-Gate® to the Next Level?
In this ebook, we examine some criticisms of Stage-Gate® and wrestle with their validity. And then we’ll consider if those critiques are a legitimate problem with Stage-Gate® as a methodology or if they could be indicative of issues elsewhere in the innovation process.