Nihon Kohden Innovation Center CEO on the ‘Negative Stage Gate’ Process

As part of our latest research report, Building a Productive Innovation Portfolio, we spoke with Weisner, Nihon Kohden Innovation Center’s President and CEO, to get his advice on engaging the necessary stakeholders for innovation activities, hear about what he calls “the negative stage gate system,” and understand how his team’s governance structure has changed over the past few years.

By Meghan Hall · August 21, 2023 · 1 min read

Steve Weisner knows that nurses can be protective over their patients — particularly where knowledge of and standard of care are concerned. His team at Nihon Kohden Innovation Center , the innovation arm of medical device company Nihon Kohden, has learned that engaging doctors…