Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Once the product-development stage concludes, a fancy marketing campaign is used to glamorize the team’s hard work, labor, and perseverance, ready to compete against other products of the same league. Building a new product is a daunting task that requires the collaborative efforts of many people. Pick a date.

Productivity 85

Productivity Products Planning Stage-Gate 85

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. However, for game-changing innovation it's the opposite.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

The two were sitting on stage at Radio City Music Hall chatting about business-y stuff when the retired GE CEO made the suggestion, and I was a little surprised when the retired IBM CEO didn’t dismiss it out of hand. I’d be interested, Palmisano replied, but only “if Bill took the company private.”.

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. Gates has used the term to refer to children born after 1994, describing them as the first generation to grow up with the Internet.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Stage-Gate Content 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next. Sixty-nine percent of respondents said they’re gathering that data. The five most commonly used metrics were: Revenue generated by new products. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. P&L impact or other financial impact.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

That was the answer from a recent Harvard Business School MBA graduate when asked why he decided to participate in the School's Leadership Fellows program — a one-year management fellowship in nonprofit and public-sector organizations. So what does it take to attract these students to pursue careers with a focus on social impact?

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Career Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. On the phone front, I was at my home office desk phoning execs before 7 am and well after 5 pm to avoid their Gate Keepers, AKA, executive assistants. Dan Miller of 48 Days. Nothing has contributed more to my success than my reverence for the first 90 minutes of every day.

Succession 316

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