Category: Product Management

September 14, 2025

For years, we’ve built growth strategies around the classic funnel: Awareness → Interest → Desire → Action. Track drop-offs, eliminate friction, optimize conversion rates. Simple, measurable, effective. But as AI anticipates user intent and one-click checkouts compress entire purchase journeys, I’m questioning whether the next generation of marketers will even think in funnels. Here’s what’s […]

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December 15, 2024

A. The History of the Stage-Gating Process The stage-gating process is a systematic framework for managing innovation, designed to break large projects into phases separated by decision points (“gates”). This methodology was pioneered by Dr. Robert G. Cooper in the 1980s. Cooper, a Canadian academic, introduced the concept in his book Winning at New Products: […]

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