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Penelope Green joined The New York Times as a staff editor for the Sunday magazine in 1990, overseeing a column about food and reporting on the cosmetics industry. She has been the editor of Styles of the Times (a precursor to the Sunday Styles section) as well as the Home section.
During a 10-year period as a freelance writer, Ms. Green contributed articles to Vogue, House Beautiful and House & Garden, among other publications. From June 2003 to September 2005, she wrote the weekly Habitats column in The Times's Real Estate section.
She returned to The Times full time in 2006 as a reporter for the Home section, for which she has considered the implications of black toilet paper ("This Season's Must Have: The Little Black Roll"), life in a glass building ("Yours for the Peeping") and the meaning of clutter ("Saying Yes to Mess").
Before starting at The Times, Ms. Green was an editor at 7 Days, an award-winning New York City weekly, which folded in 1990.
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In a Tiny Universe, Room to Heal
After he lost his memory, Mark Hogancamp created a universe of his own: a tiny World War II-era town called Marwencol, the subject of a documentary.April 7, 2011 gardenNews
The House Inherited Them
A colorful family of Livingston and Astor descendants have 43 rooms full of legacy at Rokeby, their 195-year-old home, but not the money to maintain any of it.July 22, 2010 gardenNews
The Prancing Elites Dance Their Way Up
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July 2, 2015, Thursday
Nesting, the Vice Media Way
Searching for zombie powder, interviewing PCP makers; it's all in a day's work for two correspondents for Vice Media who share a Brooklyn loft.
June 11, 2015, Thursday
They Built It. No One Came.
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May 17, 2015, Sunday
The Kips Bay Show House: Grand Gesture as a Rite of Spring
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May 17, 2015, Sunday
The Independent Women of Sweet Briar
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April 23, 2015, Thursday
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April 16, 2015, Thursday
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March 5, 2015, Thursday
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February 26, 2015, Thursday
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February 19, 2015, Thursday
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'It is time for the British people to have their say': David Cameron promises EU exit vote by 2017
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Andrew Grice has been Political Editor of The Independent since 1998. He was previously Political Editor of The Sunday Times, where he worked for 10 years, and he has been a Westminster-based journalist since 1982. His column, Inside Politics, appears in The Independent each Saturday.
Wednesday 23 January 2013
David Cameron called today for a fundamental change in Britain's relationship with the European Union as he made his promise of an "in or out referendum" within five years on whether the country should remain a member of the 27-nation club.
In a landmark speech on Europe that will set the tone for British politics for years, the Prime Minister said the "ever closer union" which was the founding principle of the EU should no longer apply to Britain.
"We understand and respect the right of others to maintain their commitment to this goal. But for Britain – and perhaps for others – it is not the objective. And we would be much more comfortable if the treaty specifically said so, freeing those who want to go further, faster, to do so, without being held back by the others.
"Power must be able to flow back to member states, not just away from them," he said. "Nothing should be off the table." He added: "The biggest danger to the EU comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point," he said.
Mr Cameron pledged that, if the Conservatives win the May 2015 election, a referendum would be held within the first half of the five-year parliament – which means by the end of 2017. It will be the first referendum on Europe since Britain voted in 1975 to stay in the EU, two years after joining.
Although his clear promise of a simple "in or out" vote was welcomed by Tory Eurosceptics, his speech left some crucial questions unanswered. Mr Cameron said he wanted Britain to remain in the EU and was confident of winning a "new settlement", with some powers returned from Brussels to London, that would enable him to recommend a Yes vote in the referendum. But answering questions after his address, he refused to say what he would do if other EU leaders did not give him a deal he could recommend to the British public. This is seen as a highly possible scenario on the Continent, where other EU nations say the UK cannot "cherry-pick" the EU laws which suit it.
Mr Cameron said he would table Britain's demands even if the EU backed away from a new treaty to entrench reforms to the eurozone. "If there is no appetite for a new treaty for us all then of course Britain should be ready to address the changes we need in a negotiation with our European partners," he said.
He questioned the EU's need to legislate on areas such as the environment, social affairs and crime and made clear that Britain wanted to extend its opt-out from aspects of the working time directive. "It is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the EU requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners," he said.
Mr Cameron had some words of reassurance for pro-British businessmen. "I never want us to pull up the drawbridge and retreat from the world. I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British Prime Minister with a positive vision for the future of the EU. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part."
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Just like last summer, the success of the United States in a World Cup soccer tournament has piqued interest in the team as it moves into the knockout stages of the tournament.
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Five months ago, after leaks revealed that the government is engaged in a vast and disturbing array of intrusive surveillance programs, President Barack Obama vowed to find ways to strike the "right balance between protecting our security and preserving our freedoms."
His announcement Friday of National Security Agency changes marked the start a much-needed recalibration toward individual privacy, but it fell short in some areas and left many of the key issues unresolved.
In classic Obama split-the-difference fashion, the president put forward "reforms" that are likely to satisfy neither the intelligence community nor civil libertarians. Perhaps that is as it should be. The balance between security and liberty raises difficult issues that don't lend themselves to all-or-nothing solutions.
Most usefully, Obama erected some new safeguards around the most controversial surveillance program, the NSA's collection of telephone records on virtually every American. He also promised new restraints on the practice of spying on friendly foreign leaders, the exposure of which has proved embarrassing and damaging to U.S. interests.
Once again, however, the president did a better job of articulating the challenge - "how we remain true to who we are in a world that is remaking itself at dizzying speed" - than in providing a clear enunciation of principles on which sound public policies can be built. How about starting with this one: The government is not entitled to get any piece of information on anyone it wants at any time without any cause, even if those data might someday come in handy against a terrorist plot.
Also missing from the president's speech, delivered exactly 53 years after outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower warned of a "military-industrial complex," was an explicit acknowledgment that the post-9/11 security-industrial complex has swelled out of control. Surely there are ways to streamline an intelligence community that now has 16 spy agencies, more than 100,000 employees and a "black budget" exceeding $50 billion a year.
As to specific programs:
? Obama is struggling to maintain the potential benefits of the telephone-records database while erecting barriers against inevitable abuses. Whether it's possible to do that remains unproven, as is the program's effectiveness as a terror-fighting tool.
NSA officials - who now decide whether to "query" a particular phone number from the enormous database of everyone's call records - will have to get court approval first. That's an important protection.
The president's other proposed change - to transfer the database out of government hands - will prove more problematic. There is no existing entity to take it. The phone companies don't want to be involved. It seems unlikely that Obama's advisers and members of Congress will devise a satisfying alternative in the two months Obama gave them.
Ultimately, the fate of the program appears headed for the Supreme Court; last month, two federal judges, ruling in separate cases, came down on opposite sides of whether the phone-data collection is constitutional.
? The president will ask Congress to create a panel of lawyers to represent the public's privacy interests in significant cases before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, which operates in secret and hears only from the government. He'll also ask advisers to review the court's major decisions with an eye toward making some public. Both are steps in the right direction, though how far they go is unclear.
Obama missed an opportunity to make the court more diverse by changing the way its 11 judges are appointed. Currently, all the FISA court judges are named by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. The appointments should be spread among a wider array of officials.
? The president did little to rein in the use of National Security Letters, a tool that allows FBI agents to require businesses to secretly hand over individuals' banking, email or telephone records - without seeking a judge's approval. Before 9/11, the letters were used sparingly, but in 2012 the letters were issued at the rate of nearly 60 per day. Obama rejected the advice of his own advisory panel, which urged him to require a judge's approval.
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In his new book, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wonders why, several years after 9/11, "there was not a top-to-bottom review of policies and authorities with an eye to culling out those that were most at odds with our traditions, culture and history."
It took the revelations by fugitive leaker Edward Snowden to spark such a long-overdue review and jar the administration into action.
The president's actions Friday are best seen as the start of a course correction, one that will ultimately involve Congress and the courts in a bid to find a way, as Obama put it, "to protect ourselves and sustain our leadership in the world, while upholding the civil liberties and privacy protections that our ideals - and our Constitution - require." Easy to say; hard to do.


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Britain's leading motoring and cycling bodies have criticised the Government for refusing to create an annual budget for cycle provision, ignoring the recommendations of a parliamentary inquiry.
Robert Goodwill, the Cycling Minster, has come under fire from the AA and British Cycling for effectively ruling out any pledge in the 2015 Conservative manifesto to create a dedicated cycling budget.
David Cameron has said he wanted to launch a "cycling revolution" on British streets, to reduce congestion and boost public health.
The Get Britain Cycling inquiry last year found he would need to create a fixed annual cycling budget of £10 per head of population — about £600 million or 4 per cent of the transport budget — to achieve this.
Yet the Government has spent less than one seventh of this amount over the past four years, investing £278 million in occasional grants – the equivalent of £1.34 per person each year. This compares to more than £11 per head pledged by Transport for London and £24 in the Netherlands.
Mr Goodwill said he would wait to assess the impact of money granted to eight cities and four national parks last year before making any new pledges and said this assessment would not be complete before the Conservative manifesto for next year's general election is written.
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Mr Goodwill said: "The Prime Minister has specifically nailed his colours to the mast in terms of cycling and we need to make sure that's adequately resourced ... I'm not sure that setting in stone a specific budget for that would necessarily be the right way forward."
Edmund King, the president of the AA, backed calls for an annual cycling budget of £10 per head, describing it as a "drop in the ocean".
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Martin Key, the campaigns manager at British Cycling, said he was disappointed by Mr Goodwill's stance. He called for "meaningful and consistent levels of sustained investment to accommodate cycling in our road designs".
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Thomas Hardy, executive director of university relations for the UI, said Board Chairman Lawrence C. Eppley talked to fellow trustees and the decision was made Friday afternoon.
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THE £51m contract to bring superfast broadband to 93 per cent of Cumbrian homes and businesses was finally signed on the shores of Ullswater yesterday.
The move signalled a start to a communications revolution in the county that it is hoped will transform the fortunes of many rural communities.
BT will now embark on a two-year roll-out that will deliver speeds of up to 80Mbps for Cumbrian homes once the County Council's cabinet has met in January to agree a set of priorities which will determine the order in which communities get connected.
It will approve a plan that will show each community and business at which point in the programme they will be connected and what speeds to expect.
Those that require higher speeds will be given advice and support.
Fibre to the home technology – delivering ultra-fast speeds of up to 330Mbps – will also be deployed in certain areas and will be available on demand.
Senior BT managers and county council leaders at the launch were aware of frustrations in Ulverston about the lack of a firm date for superfast installation, but said there was no question of the town missing out.
Councillor Elizabeth Mallinson, Cumbria County Council's Cabinet member with lead responsibility for Connecting Cumbria, said. "BT will provide superfast broadband for Ulverston and for the rest of the county – we will have a timetable and a roll out so people will know where they are for the next two years.
"We have a tremendously exciting three years ahead of us, but I would ask people to be patient and allow us to deliver this huge programme in a strategic way which is in the best interests of the county as a whole."
Bill Murphy, managing director of BT's Next Generation Access, said: "The project is incredibly important for Cumbria and BT is proud to be a part of it. "Cumbria's scattered population combined with its comparatively large size and challenging geography, means that small business plays a pivotal role in the county's economy and the roll out of fibre broadband will act as an economic driver for those rural businesses.
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Phase–gate model
A phase–gate model, also referred to as a phase–gate process, is a project management technique in which an initiative or project (e.g., new product development, process improvement, business change) is divided into stages or phases, separated by gates. At each gate, the continuation of the process is decided by (typically) a manager or a steering committee. The decision is based on the information available at the time, including the business case, risk analysis, and availability of necessary resources (e.g., money, people with correct competencies). The phase–gate model may also be known as stage-limited commitment or creeping commitment.[citation needed]
- 1 History
- 2 Phases
- 3 Gates
- 4 Phases in detail
- 4.1 Phase 0: Discovery
- 4.2 Phase 1: Scoping
- 4.3 Phase 2: Building the business case and plan
- 4.4 Phase 3: Development
- 4.5 Phase 4: Testing and validation
- 4.6 Phase 5: Product launch
- 5 Effective gating
- 6 Advantages and disadvantages
- 7 Opportunity management
- 8 References
Phased scope development and investment decision is a fundamental concept of chemical engineering and engineering economics, particularly since the 1940s as chemical complexity and scale of chemical processes grew. One source describes eight phases in the development of a chemical product starting with research, economic study, scale-up (pilot plant) and design leading to full funds authorization.[1] In 1958, the American Association of Cost Engineers created four standard cost estimate type classifications to match these development and approval phases.[2] Other industries with complex products and projects picked up on the process. For example, NASA practiced the concept of phased development in the 1960s with its phased project planning or what is often called phased review process. The phased review process was intended to break up the development of any project into a series of phases that could be individually reviewed in sequence. Review points at the end of each phase required that a number of criteria be met before the project could progress to the next phase.[3] The phased review process consisted of five phases (Preliminary Analysis, Definition, Design, Development, Operations) with periodic development reviews between phases.[4] NASA's phased review process is considered a first generation process because it did not take into consideration the analysis of external markets in new product development.[3]
The phase–gate model refers to the use of funnel tools in decision making when dealing with new product development. "Gates" or decision points are placed at places in the product development process that are most beneficial to making decisions regarding continuance of product development. These production areas between the gates are idea generation, establishment of feasibility, development of capability, testing and validation and product launch. At the conclusion of each of these areas of development of a new product, it is the responsibility of senior management to make a decision as to whether or not the product should continue to be developed. The passing of gate to gate can be accomplished either formally, with some sort of documentation, or informally, decided upon based on the preferences and culture of the organization.
In the chemical engineering world, and engineering and construction industry, phase-gate processes are often called front-end loading. Phase–gate is the particular version and terminology elaborated in the following discussion.
A common model is composed of the following phases: ideation, preliminary analysis, business case, development, testing, launch.
A phase–gate model is a conceptual and operational road map for moving a new project from idea to launch – a blueprint for managing the new-product process to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
The traditional phase-gate process has five phases and five gates. The phases are:[5]
- Scoping
- Build business case
- Development
- Testing and validation
- Launch
Ahead of this process there is often a preliminary or ideation phase called discovery, and after the fifth phase the process ends with the post-launch review. Major new product projects go through the full five-phase process. Moderate risk projects, including extensions, modification and improvements, use the short XPress version.[citation needed] Very minor changes (e.g. sales force and marketing requests) may be executed using a lighter process (phase–gate lite).[citation needed] Each phase consists of a set of prescribed, cross-functional, and parallel activities undertaken by a team of people from different functional areas. Phases have a common structure and consist of three main elements: Activities, Integrated Analysis, and Deliverables. Activities consist mainly in information gathering by the project team to reduce key project uncertainties and risks. An integrated analysis of the results of the activities is undertaken by the project team. Deliverables of phases are the results of integrated analysis that are used as input for the next Gate.
Gates provide various points during the process where an assessment of the quality of an idea is undertaken. It includes three main issues:
- Quality of execution: Checks whether the previous step is executed in a quality fashion.
- Business rationale: Does the project continue to look like an attractive idea from an economic and business perspective.
- Action plan: The proposed action plan and the requested resources reasonable and sound.
A gate meeting can lead to four results: go, kill, hold, recycle, or "Conditional go".[6]
Gates have a common structure and consist of three main elements:
- Deliverables: What the project manager and team deliver to the decision point. These deliverables are decided at the output of the previous gate, and are based on a standard menu of deliverables for each gate.
- Criteria: Questions or metrics on which the project is judged in order to determine a result (go/kill/hold/recycle) and make a prioritization decision.
- Outputs: Results of the gate review—a decision (go/kill/hold/recycle), along with an approved action plan for the next gate, and a list of deliverables and date for the next gate.
Phases in detail[edit]
Phase 0: Discovery[edit]
Deciding what projects the company wants and is capable to pursue. During this phase it is common for companies to take part in idea generation activities such as brainstorming or other group thinking exercises. Once the idea generation team has selected a project that they would like to go forward with, it must be passed on to the first gate and therefore screened by the organization's decision makers.
When searching for new product ideas it is beneficial for an organization to look to the outside world to suggest business opportunities. Using methods such as those found in empathic design can be quite helpful. Communicating with customers to understand how and why they use products can produce great strides in idea generation. Specifically, communicating with lead users can provide great feedback to the developers, as these customers are most likely to feel most passionately about the product. In addition to communication with lead users, it may be helpful for developers to communicate with suppliers. By understanding all of the types of business that their materials are being used for, developers may be able to act upon previously untapped possibilities.
Phase 1: Scoping[edit]
The second phase of the product development process is scoping. During this step the main goal is to evaluate the product and its corresponding market. The researchers must recognize the strengths and weaknesses of the product and what it is going to offer to the potential consumer. The competition must also be evaluated during this phase. It is important for the researchers to understand who and what is already in the market as well as what can potentially be developed. By determining the relative level of threat from competitors, the management team will be able to recognize whether or not they should go forward with the production of the product.
Phase 2: Building the business case and plan[edit]
Once the new product passes through the gate at the end of the scoping phase, the next phase in the phase-gate model is building the business case and plan. This is the last phase of concept development where it is crucial for companies to perform a solid analysis before they begin developing the product. This phase is generally difficult, complex, and resource-intensive. However, companies must put forth a strong effort in this phase for it is directly related to the success and development of a new product. There are four main steps that comprise this phase: product definition and analysis, building the business case, building the project plan, and feasibility review.
Product definition and analysis[edit]
The first step, product definition and analysis, is composed of a series of activities that will provide the information to define and justify the development of a new product. One of the first of these activities is the user needs and wants study where customer value is determined. This addresses questions about the product such as what benefits does the product provide and what features should the product have. During this time the company should conduct surveys and interviews with existing and potential customers, along with staff members. Next, the company must conduct a market analysis. They must determine the market size and segmentation, rate of growth, customer trends and behavior, and what channels reach these customers. Once the market analysis is complete the company must then conduct a competitive analysis. It is important to know how your competitors operate in addition to their strengths and weaknesses. This will not only help you build a great product, but will also help in determining how and where to launch your new product. Together these activities will help define the product and provide a foundation for the marketing strategy. Next, the company must build a technically feasible product concept, which includes the substance and methods needed to produce the new product. Once this is completed the company can then produce a production and operations cost analysis along with a market and launch costs analysis. Next, the company can begin to test the concept they have developed. This is when early prototypes are developed and presented to staff and consumers to gain feedback and gauge customer reaction. From this the company can make the necessary changes and see the sales potential of the product. This feedback will also help the company build a solid product definition. Lastly, the company will then conduct the business analysis, risk analysis, and financial analysis of the new product.
Building the business case[edit]
The business case is a document that defines the product and provides the rationale for developing it. This document will vary in format amongst companies, but the primary components are the following: results of the activities of product definition and analysis; legal and regulatory requirements; safety, health, and environmental considerations; assumptions needed to draw the conclusions made, and why it is believed they are valid and reasonable; and out-of-bounds criteria that indicate certain changes/events which will mandate an emergency business case review. This document will be referred to throughout the development process and edited when necessary.
Building the project plan[edit]
The project plan includes: a scheduled list of tasks and events along with timelines for milestones throughout the development process; the personnel, time, and financial resources needed to complete the project; and an expected launch date for the release of the new product.
Feasibility review[edit]
The last step of building the business case and plan is the feasibility review. This is when management, along with other departments of the company, reviews the rationale for pursuing the product. They analyze the information provided by the previous steps in this process to decide whether or not the product should move forward. If it is decided to be pursued then it passes through gate two and moves on to the product development phase.
Phase 3: Development[edit]
During the development phase, plans from previous steps are actually executed. The product's design and development is carried out, including some early, simple tests of the product and perhaps some early customer testing. The product's marketing and production plans are also developed. It is important that the company adheres to their overall goal of the project, which is reflected in these production and marketing plans. Doing this will allow them to definitively decide who they will market their product to and how they will get the product to that target audience. The development team maps out a realistic timeline with specific milestones that are described as SMART: specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and time-bound. The timeline is frequently reviewed and updated, helping the team stay on task and giving management information about the product's progress. In the development phase, the product builds momentum as the company commits more resources to the project and makes full use of cross-functional teamwork as the marketing, technical, manufacturing, and sales departments all come together to offer their expert opinions. Having a diversified and parallel development phase ensures that the product continues to meet the company's technical and financial goals. A diverse team allows specific roles and leadership positions to develop as team members make contributions using their strongest attributes. With members having clearly defined roles, tasks can be performed concurrently ensuring a much more efficient development process. The ultimate deliverable of the development phase is the prototype, which will undergo extensive testing and evaluation in the next phase of the process.
Phase 4: Testing and validation[edit]
This phase provides validation for the entire project. Areas that will be evaluated include: the product itself, the production/manufacturing process, customer acceptance, and the financial merit of the project. This phase includes three types of testing: near testing, field testing, and market testing.[citation needed]
Near testing[edit]
The main objective of near testing is to find any bugs or issues with a product. A key point to remember here is that the product is no longer a prototype and that it has almost all the features of the commercial model.[citation needed] Testing will be done initially by in-house staff, and customers and partners who are close to the firm. It is important to ensure that those testing have an understanding of how the product should perform, so they know what it should or shouldn't be doing. Members of the research and development team are usually present to observe the participants using the product and take any notes or data that may be useful.
Field testing[edit]
Field testing, or beta testing, is done by those who can provide valuable feedback on the product. This usually lasts a long period of time and the participants can include customers, partners, or anyone who is not familiar with the producing company.[citation needed] At this juncture the product fully resembles its planned launch model in all aspects; therefore the participants' interaction rate will be higher because they know all the features and benefits. During this phase there are three primary objectives to be achieved. The first objective is to see how much the participant is interested. It is also worthwhile to note which individual attribute they prefer and if they would buy the product. Next, determine how the customer uses the product and evaluate its durability. Confirm the environment in which the customers will be using the product. Recording and analyzing customer feedback is the final step in the field testing phase. This feedback may be used to help inform any minor design improvements that need to be made. The sales and marketing team will also be a beneficiary of field testing feedback; they can use this information to help focus their sales presentation.
Market testing[edit]
Unlike the other two test activities, market testing is considered optional.[citation needed] A solid marketing and launch plan along with confidence in the product's ability to sell helps to inform the key decision makers at the test and validation gate. If there is any uncertainty in the marketing or launch plans there are two options to consider. First, a simulated market test may be run, in which customers will be exposed to new products in an advertising and purchasing situation. The goal of this test is to obtain an early forecast of sales and make any necessary adjustments to the marketing plan. The second test involves trial sales, and is done through specific channels, regions, or consumer demographics.[citation needed]
Phase 5: Product launch[edit]
The product launch is the culmination of the product having passed all previous gates. The producer must come up with a marketing strategy to generate customer demand for the product. The producer must also decide how large they anticipate the market for a new product to be and thus determine the size of their starting volume production.[citation needed] Part of the launch phase is training sales and support personnel to be familiar with the product so that they can assist in sales of this product. Setting a product price is an aspect of the product launch that the producer must consider. They should avoid either undershooting or overpricing the potential market. Finally, distribution is a major decision making part of the launch process. Selecting a distributor or value-added reseller for a product must be done with careful thought and potential sales in mind.
Having a smooth launch process that includes effective marketing and a knowledgeable and prepared sales force may result in faster time to profit due to early customer acceptance.
Effective gating[edit]
Most firms suffer from having far too many projects in their product development pipelines, for the limited resources available. "Gates with teeth" help to prune the development portfolio of weak projects and deal with a gridlocked pipeline. Also, a robust innovation strategy, coupled with strategic buckets, refocuses resources on high value development initiatives.
Note that gates are not merely project review points, status reports or information updates. Rather, they are tough decision meetings, where the critical go/kill and prioritization decisions are made on projects. Thus the gates become the quality control check points in the process ensuring that you do the right projects and also do the projects right.
Gates must have clear and visible criteria so that senior managers can make go/kill and prioritization decisions objectively. Most importantly, these criteria must be effective—that is, they must be operational (easy to use), realistic (make use of available information) and discriminating (differentiate the good projects from the mediocre ones). These criteria can be:
- Must meet: Knock-out questions in a check list, designed to kill poor projects outright
- Should meet: Highly desirable characteristics which are rated and added in a point-count scheme
A sample list of criteria is shown below, from which a scorecard can be developed that can then be used to score projects at a gate meeting.
- Must meet (checklist – yes/no)
- Strategic alignment (fits business unit strategy)
- Reasonable likelihood of technical feasibility
- Meet EH&S policies
- Positive return versus risk
- Should meet (scored on 0–10 scale)
- Strategic
- Degree to which projects aligns with business unit strategy
- Strategic importance
- Product advantage
- Unique benefits
- Meets customer needs better than existing or competing product
- Value for money
- Market attractiveness
- Market size
- Market growth
- Competitive situation
- Synergies (leverages core competencies)
- Marketing synergies
- Technological synergies
- Manufacturing / processing synergies
- Technical feasibility
- Technical gap
- Complexity
- Technical uncertainty
- Risk versus return
- Expected profitability (e.g., net present value)
- Return (e.g., internal rate of return)
- Payback period
- Certainty of return
- Strategic
If the answers were "no" or "low" to any of these questions, the decision certainly would not be to kill the project – hence they're poor go/kill criteria.[vague]
Advantages and disadvantages[edit]
There are a number of advantages to using the phase-gate model for product development, which typically result from its ability to identify problems and assess progress before the project's conclusion. Poor projects can be quickly rejected by disciplined use of the model. When using the phase-gate model on a large project, the model can help reduce complexity of what could be a large and limiting innovation process into a straightforward rule-based approach. When a phase-gate model incorporates cost and fiscal analysis tools such as net present value, the organization can potentially be provided with quantitative information regarding the feasibility of developing potential product ideas. Finally, the model is an opportunity to validate the updated business case by a project's executive sponsors.[7]
One problem with the phase-gate process is the potential for structural organization to interfere with creativity and innovation, as overly structured processes may cause creativity to be reduced in importance and to hinder the largely iterative process of innovation.[citation needed]
Opportunity management[edit]
The opportunity management funnel is a visual representation of phase-gate decision making. Opportunity management has been defined as "a process to identify business and community development opportunities that could be implemented to sustain or improve a local economy."[8] The components of opportunity management are:
- Identifying opportunities.
- Evaluating and prioritizing these opportunities - This may involve developing criteria, deliberating, and ranking the alternatives.
- Driving opportunities - Involves assigning leads, accountability, action plans, and project management
- Constant monitoring - May require one of the following actions:
- Advance - Commit additional resources to move the idea forward
- Rework - More investigation/ rethinking
- Kill - Stop working on the idea and move on
The goal of the opportunity management funnel is to eliminate weak or bad ideas before money or resources are contributed to realize these opportunities. The benefit of the opportunity management funnel when utilizing phase-gate decision making is that the funnel generates efficiencies where weak ideas are efficiently eliminated leaving a strong set of viable alternatives. To fulfill its mandate, the opportunity management funnel filters the broadest range of opportunities and ensures that all priority sectors are represented. When selecting which opportunities to filter through the process, economic developers should be aware that initially, there are no bad ideas or limits. The unviable alternatives will be filtered out throughout the process using phase-gate decision making process
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- ^ Chao, L.P.; Tumer, I.; Ishii, K. (2005). "Design Process Error-Proofing: Benchmarking Gate and Phased Review Life-Cycle Models". Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (Long Beach, California).
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