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Adrian Timms, ATimms Consulting, LLC. Presented at the 2018 conference
One of the topics in mastering the fundamentals of innovation management is innovation process design. Some variant of a Stages-and-Gates process defined below is typically used in the confectionery industry, particularly for developing and launching new products. Herein, we consider how confectionery might look utilizing more modern practices such as Agile Development and Lean Start-up used in technology and other industries to renew and update a tired and under-performing stages-andgates development process.