This presentation introduces "killer" innovation as "significant and highly profitable departures from current offerings or practices that are difficult to imitate" and proposes that it is a better way to innovate.
 Do companies that leverage IT produce more business value than those that don’t? Erik Brynjolfsson, in this interview, argues that not only is the answer a resounding yes it is even more overwhelmingly "YES" for IT dependent industries.
 This paper presents a modified stage gate model and process to implement new product development. This stage gate model can be easily adapted for IT stage gate model and process.