CHAPTER 17
Using Stagegate® to Select, Evaluate, and Control Projects
Companies sometimes undertake projects that should never have been started, or continue jobs that should have been canceled. Stagegate is a method developed by Dr. Robert G. Cooper (1987) that can be used to prevent these errors. This concern about errors was explained by Marvin Patterson in Accelerating Innovation (1973): If you cancel too many projects, you are taking on projects that should never have been selected to begin with. And if you never cancel any projects, you are sure to be continuing projects that should have been shut down because they will never deliver the ...
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