Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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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. Sandip Roy of Happiness India Project.

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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.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

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. 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. Were you misled by the data?

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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. The companies did reasonably well on making decisions using a formal process and managing projects using a disciplined approach (such as the stage/gate methodology).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks. The central Support Unit is typically a low budget, low staff corporate function in charge of developing guidelines and procedures to govern the innovation funnel (i.e.

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

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. They offer strategies like content development, email marketing, creative and branding, and more.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is about developing hypotheses about the future. 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.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

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. Most project review meetings, which involved top managers asking challenging questions of project team members, constructively shaped projects for the better. Find small wins even in setbacks.

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Video Stage-Gate Motivation Project 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next. P&L impact or other financial impact.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Business change initiatives (those that involve IT projects) engage enormous resources — not just IT and financial resources, but human time and emotion. At most companies, business and IT leaders cannot immediately answer the question, "What percentage of your projects fully realize their expected business benefits?"

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

To understand the work, first you need to understand an airport's business model: its real customer isn't travelers, but the airlines that rent the gates and terminals, much like a mall owner leases space to retailers. This project provided ANA with an extraordinary set of strategic and tactical tools to face these challenges.".

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B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

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. Even if you're working for a company but you're interested in moving to a different part of the business - see if you can help them with some projects.

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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 a more focused approach may be more worthwhile.

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Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

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. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates. I say this for two main reasons. That's what is happening now.

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Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

But the barriers that prevent students from making social impact career choices are real: positions that do not effectively leverage the MBA skill set, careers that lack investment in professional development and growth potential, and pathways that require vows of poverty. Invest in leadership development. Create robust experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

And they watch for and stop the common problem of their team members or other senior leaders pushing pet projects through product development. As an example consider stage-gates, decision points at which time new products are reviewed before moving forward in the development process. Two to three are optimal.

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Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But data scientist are curious creatures who thrive from being able to creatively dabble; there are benefits to giving them flexibility to work on projects that touch both “types” – both for them and for the organization. Modeling scientist: Direct improvements in the product or business from the code developed and shipped.

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Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

When they appear on stage or in a meeting, the electricity is palpable. I’ve also been fortunate to work for two CEO’s that had plenty of charisma, and I always marveled at their ability to project such “presence” in any public space they inhabited. That aura, that confidence, that vibe. All eyes will find them. Oh yes we can.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

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.” What percentage of the leaders in your company, from project managers to execu­tive vice presidents, are formally accountable for innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Moreover, many notable founders, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out of college. Employees there learn hard skills, such as project management, but also softer skills, such as politics and networking. Acknowledgements: Thank you to First Round Capital for their assistance in developing this article.

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Succession Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

On February 14, 2014, Stanford students Elizabeth Woodson and Saul Gurdus drove a rented Winnebago to the San Mateo office of the Golden Gate Regional Center (GGRC), where they greeted eight curious GGRC staff members. No single stage felt broken from the vantage point of individual staffers.

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Case Study Stage-Gate Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

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Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

That trend is more than five years old, but it’s particularly notable given two other developments. ” The Brookings report’s most peculiar finding is that VC investment in cleantech has shifted toward later-stage deals. First, another recent Brookings analysis found that U.S. But the bigger problem is in Washington.

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