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.

Short-term 63

Short-term Long-term Stage-Gate Mentor 63

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

They’re less productive, take more “unhealthy” days off of work, and cost your company money. Which behaviors will contribute to a healthier, more productive working environment? Another framework for developing a mission statement is to ask three questions: 1) What do we do really well as a company?

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

They’re less productive, take more “unhealthy” days off of work, and cost your company money. . Which behaviors will contribute to a healthier, more productive working environment? Another framework for developing a mission statement is to ask three questions: 1) What do we do really well as a company?

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. How do you prevent a drop-off?

Project 8

Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. They are decision scientists. They are modeling scientists. What are some examples?

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. It is about developing hypotheses about the future. So Stage-Gate models can unintentionally kill potentially big ideas. a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. A compelling case for innovation.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m not talking here about leaders with vague or feel-good principles like being open to new ideas; rather, those guided by a set of specific requirements, actions, and structures proven to drive innovation, which include the following: Personally stay out of creating new products and services. And that’s false when you look at the facts.

Innovation 8

Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

The rest would be made up by new products and services (24%); entry into new geographies (17%); and appealing to new customer segments (14%). In particular, most respondents expected growth in emerging markets to become more important, as the underlying growth rate in developed economies remains sluggish. That's terrific.

Stage-Gate 21

Stage-Gate Report Project Uncertainty 21

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Adrienne Tom ( Career Impressions ) ​ My #1 tip for being successful in a career today would be ongoing investment in professional development and skills development. Or perhaps someone who can spend some days behind their desk and other days in the field, equally productive in both environments. Emotional Intelligence.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

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. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Some examples: how many employees have been trained in “lean startup” methodology, or how many new product ideas are currently being researched. Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. stage to the next. The result?

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

I'm a product of a market like this. Our grocery stores have very different products than the ones on the mainland. It allows consumers to deconstruct benefits they like from products, borrow benefits from adjacent categories and then reassemble in ways they like better. Whites make up 26% of the population.)

Marketing 15

Marketing Stage-Gate Industry Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

If an employee comes up with a great new product or a technical discovery during R&D, aren’t they likely to leave the company, either to found a startup or to join a competitor? times more R&D than small companies, but their R&D is 13% more productive — meaning large firms are the real engine of economic growth.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

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. Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

Banking 11

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

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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CEO Succession Tips How To 340

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. When you’re pouring every spare minute into growing your business, taking a break to visit the gym often feels counter-productive. From personal wellness, to work life, to side hustles, making a “habit” of “developing habits” is crucial to success.

Succession 316

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Compared to our original plan, a larger part of the development phase will now be executed in 2013. She reschedules the first gate for Week 42.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place. Consider, for example, the UK software company, Red Gate. So what to do? Tolerance of Failure.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Today we’re seeing a maturing of the industry, and entrepreneurs now want to build products as well. Or they want to combine products and services. Even more difficult is to build a business that requires capital out of the gate. So the Indian seed stage ecosystem is really small.

Incubator 8

Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

Truly effective video game designers know how to create a sense of progress for players within all stages of a game. After one such meeting, for example, a team member wrote in his diary, "The project passed start gate today. Truly effective teachers do this in the classroom for their students. Find small wins even in setbacks.

Video 14

Video Stage-Gate Motivation Project 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. Innovators see their organization, and the world around it, as a portfolio of skills and assets that can be endlessly recombined into new products and busi­nesses.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

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. You (Inhouse) Sometimes the best content comes from those who know your product or service best, you. It grows sales.

Marketing 105

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. Then, both approaches move toward developing a theory about how to solve the problem or design challenge.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

He has presided over an economic and social rebirth, with Rwanda making dramatic gains in health and development indicators ( watching its recent progress on Gapminder is a remarkable sight). And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair.

Porter 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10