Storyboard Presentation – Enabling Tools February 20-21, 2007 / St. Pete’s Beach, FL Name of Storyboard Author Professional Title Company Name Storyboard Presentation Title: ‘Any Subhead Text Can Appear Here’

Storyboard Presentation – Enabling Tools February 20-21, 2007 / St. Pete’s Beach, FL Company Name Author Name Company Description:  Describe your company size (annual revenues), specific division if applicable, the industry you compete in and the products and/or services you make.  Describe the role product innovation plays in your company (e.g. you can use metrics to describe what % of sales you derive from new products, you can indicate if product innovation occurs ad hoc or systematically through strategic plans, you can indicate whether your organizational structure or culture is designed specifically to drive product innovation, etc.).  Feel free to include pictures.  You are limited to this space and font size. Brief Description of Enabling Tool:  Briefly describe the enabling tool you used with your stage-gate process (e.g. design tools, automated workflow tools, problem-solving tools, voice of customer tools, financial analysis tools, etc.).  Briefly describe the purpose of the tool and the impact it makes on the quality, speed and/or success rates with your product innovation.  Decision process you used to select a tool and gain buy-in.  Feel free to include pictures.  You are limited to this space and font size. Company Logo

Storyboard Presentation – Enabling Tools February 20-21, 2007 / St. Pete’s Beach, FL Company Name Author Name Illustration of Your Stage-Gate Process:  Please include a diagram/picture.  You are limited to this space. Detailed Description of Enabling Tool:  Provide a detailed description of how this enabling tool helps you to succeed.  Describe where in the process the tool is supportive (e.g. in a particular stage or gate, all stages or all gates, the entire process from idea to launch, to enable/complete a particular functional activity, to enable/complete a particular administrative activity, to enable team functioning, etc.)  You are limited to this space and font size. Company Logo

Storyboard Presentation – Enabling Tools February 20-21, 2007 / St. Pete’s Beach, FL Company Name Author Name Lessons Learned:  Describe lessons learned and indicate what would you do differently the next time around.  You are limited to this space and font size. Company Logo Team:  Describe the team that participated in installing this enabling tool (include roles/expertise when possible).  You are limited to this space and font size. Results:  Describe how this enabling tool is having an impact on your organization’s performance results (use hard data/metrics whenever possible).  You are limited to this space and font size.