Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

Filed under: Leadership , Knowledge , Market-driven , Innovation , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | strategy , customer focus , products , services , Carol Bartz , Yahoo! New products can spring from creative ideas, but these products need to fit the overall corporate goals established by Carol Bartz and her management team.

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Strategy Stage-Gate Productivity Products 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

van Wassenhove, both of Insead in France, found that the complexity of high-tech innovation efforts can blur teams’ perceptions. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions. She reschedules the first gate for Week 42.

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Almost every company has a Stage Gate process because they work well for incremental innovation. They must interact with their work teams frequently throughout all of innovation's phases, from the beginning.

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Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. The future speaks to your realized existing conditions and the defined time-frame that a specific strategy is to be executed to impact your next steps. oriented approach to develop and execute winning processes and strategies that will cover the life?cycle

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CEO Succession Tips How To 357

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Incremental innovation can be pushed down into the organization where the strategy is clear, decision metrics are understood, and management models like Stage-Gate create a level playing field. So Stage-Gate models can unintentionally kill potentially big ideas. A creatively resourced, multi-functional dedicated team.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

They may be flesh and blood to the senior team and the assistants in the C-suite, but to people in outer orbits, from operational departments to business units, they are imaginary constructs. When the employee left Gates’s office, his son had insurance coverage. They’re mental images.

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Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data. They are modeling scientists.

Engineering 12

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

A study of more than two dozen consumer packaged goods companies that I led while working as a senior executive at Nielsen reveals exactly what they should be looking for instead: an innovation organizer. The senior leadership team needs to respect and adhere to the same standards as everyone else.

Innovation 8

Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Companies as diverse as AIG, Disney, and Intuit have been building innovation teams, launching “accelerator” programs to attract promising startups, and giving employees seed funding to test out new ideas with real customers. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Last fall, when it was still not clear who would be the next chief executive of Microsoft, Jack Welch recommended Sam Palmisano for the job. Bill Gates did not choose to take Microsoft private (it would have cost a lot ), and insider Satya Nadella became the company’s new CEO. But investors — he didn’t have a problem with them at all.

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

I really don't think there is just one - it is competence (having skills listed on the job description), willingness to listen and learn, adaptability, dependability, honesty, team work. The #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker is the ability to work independently and without close supervision while also being a team player.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

This is about engaging project sponsors, system users, architects, and development teams in a clear understanding of the actual value received and how that relates to the business case originally used to justify the project. One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Every day, senior executives get bombarded with ideas—and most of them are either woefully underdeveloped or downright batty. Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. ” Personally mentoring innovation teams. After a while, they all think alike.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair. Broadband access is really quite unique for a country at this stage of development. I give the president and his team a lot of credit for creating that atmosphere. Porter: Or have a good job.

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