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    Product Innovation Performance through Benchmarking

Accelerate Performance Improvement

Benchmarking is the most effective way a company can accelerate targeted performance improvements to drive better business results. One of the most commonly benchmarked business functions is Product Innovation as companies strive to achieve organic growth. This website is a practical resource specializing in benchmarking methods best suited for Product Innovation.

Stage-Gate Inc. maintains the world’s largest, most reliable, and longest running database of Product Innovation benchmark data. This award-winning collection of research and best practices continues to be led by the world’s top Product Innovation scholars, Dr. Robert G. Cooper and Dr. Scott J. Edgett.

Find out how to use this database to benchmark your company.
Performance Benchmarking

What is Benchmarking?

Benchmarking is a process a company uses to compare its internal performance, practices, and processes against other organizations. It is an objective and fact-based approach to assess strengths and weaknesses in Product Innovation. Demonstrating how alternative approaches work at other companies, and minimizing resistance to change are common objectives. More…

Benchmarking Methods

There are a variety of approaches to benchmarking depending upon your goals, timing, budget and desired level of effort. The methods can range from intense industry analysis to quick and reliable database comparisons. More…

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Innovation Processes

Benefits of Benchmarking

Benchmarking helps accelerate improvements to a company’s Product Innovation performance. It encourages the organization to be open to new methods, ideas, processes, and practices. Numerous benefits arise from benchmarking which include: gaining consensus on key problem areas, and confidently setting priorities. More…

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