Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. This model isn’t just about getting greater patient feedback during the innovation process. Innovation Centers.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

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. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. A compelling case for innovation.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas.

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Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Improving innovation is one of the key competencies that companies often look for when replacing a CEO. Yet committees responsible for recommending candidates often grapple with finding the right person for the job when an innovation emperor like Steve Jobs isn’t available. And that’s false when you look at the facts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

What puts those companies ahead is their effective use of both art and science in app development. Second, they take a few basic ingredients — brand, marketing, technology, and service — and combine them in just the right ways over the course of five stages. In each stage, they ask themselves what gaps need to be filled.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

That's one memorable piece of advice from a leader at a global innovation powerhouse. Managers working on ideas discover that detailed PowerPoint documents are their biggest enemy, because the details act as bait for nit-picking devil's advocates. "Make sure you ask the right questions at the right time." Then, the bar goes up.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

If everyone followed that logic, however, there’d be little innovation to walk out the door or to acquire! Small Firms Are Not More Innovative. The first problem with this view is that it ignores where most innovation comes from. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

In particular, most respondents expected growth in emerging markets to become more important, as the underlying growth rate in developed economies remains sluggish. Likewise, most of the respondents said that scaling innovation was crucial, but nearly half rated themselves as either low or below average in this area.

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Stage-Gate Report Project Uncertainty 21

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Start with the majority-minority markets and juxtapose them with local markets with high category development. Make it a management team exercise to have a new ethnic experience together, and then discuss how it could shape your innovation and portfolio. Here are a few practical steps to follow.

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Marketing Stage-Gate Industry Productivity 15

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. Leaders must work to develop Shared Consciousness and Purpose to ensure the right people are in place and are poised to provide a broad spectrum of response options should the Future Picture interests ever be threatened. By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Remember the Alamo.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N.

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. Dan Miller of 48 Days. Photo by Ethan Sykes.

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Build trustworthy networks , because developing trust in government will require collaboration across sectors. Make the exceptional routine , as the new era of public management requires the ability to deploy bridgebuilding across government. However, private investment excels in supporting early-stage innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

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Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

As obvious as it might sound, the motivational power of progress is a big surprise to most managers. Managers may be unaware of how important progress is to human motivation, but it's one of the first secrets that every good video game designer learns. Truly effective managers do the same for their subordinates.

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Video Stage-Gate Motivation Project 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. The first stage is when it does what was being done before but better. We manage this transition very carefully. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates.

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Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 12

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. A New Name for an Old Method.

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