Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Management involvement tends to happen only when the ideas are "ready" to be pushed up and sometimes even that isn't necessary. Because consensus and familiar metrics are death to breakthrough.

Process 15

Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Visible senior management involvement. So Stage-Gate models can unintentionally kill potentially big ideas. Old models don't work.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious. Leadership and teams find it hard to come together to scope and resource projects appropriately as well as put projects on the shelf (or kill them) when needed.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

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. These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement.

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. The Centers of Gravity (CoG) that will be influenced: Leadership, Process, Infrastructure, Populations, and Action Units. This is where the Five Ws Agenda adds value to ensure measures of metrics are met on time and on mission. By Damian D.

CEO 393

CEO Succession Tips How To 393

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Every manager in the company should know the answer to that question. One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate. There are many things companies can do with IT, but if management doesn''t establish priorities, it''s easy to do many things badly.

CIO 8

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8