Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

You should be placing a strong emphasis on customer satisfaction no matter what stage your business is in, but it’s especially important to make sure you’re not getting distracted by scalability. Some of the most successful businessmen in recent history have developed on the advice of a mentor. Keep Your Customers Happy.

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Short-term Long-term Stage-Gate Mentor 63

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. Back in the fall of 2009, Cindy, one of our customer service representatives, received a phone call that nearly made her fall off her chair.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

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. Breakthrough (changes the game) innovations, contrary to popular belief, need a top-down approach.

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Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. Leading organizations and teams to respond using the best tactical approach will determine if the organization can really deploy the needed projected force with the ability to move freely by means of sufficient sustainability for prolonged operations. By Damian D.

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CEO Succession Tips How To 393

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.” The glacial pace at which banks have moved SME lending online has left them vulnerable.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 10

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

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders.

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