Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

As a leader, you are always on stage. How about that issue of stage presence? A multi-million dollar CEO was forced to resign; a flight attendant chose not to wait for the jetway to depart and an office worker named “Jenny” shared her white board based resignation letter with millions when it went viral online. 

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Stage-Gate Letter Blog Executive Coaching 175

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It’s helpful to first understand the various stages involved in improving business processes. Synchronize siloed processes : Imagine if ATC activities were standard but siloed off from other aviation processes, such as airport gate management. Assign a leader to this organization and establish a leadership team to support that person.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 271

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Bill Gates is the master of staying ahead of the pack in the business world. Filed under: Leadership Tagged: | competition , goals , John Durfee , success « Three practices of successful product managers Leadership and Product Management » Like Be the first to like this post.

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Management Stage-Gate Ethics Marketing 150

Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

Filed under: Leadership , Knowledge , Market-driven , Innovation , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | strategy , customer focus , products , services , Carol Bartz , Yahoo! In Bartz’s case, there is a queue of TPSE to work through before they stage gate the emerging ideas against strategy alignment.

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Strategy Stage-Gate Productivity Products 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

"We never see any good ideas," lamented a senior executive. Instead, there was a problem with the process that an idea generator had to go through before they stood in front of senior leadership. Maybe even to one or two members of leadership. Leadership can wander the room and stop to discuss ideas that catch their attention.

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Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Idea Generation Document 15

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

By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. The future speaks to your realized existing conditions and the defined time-frame that a specific strategy is to be executed to impact your next steps. oriented approach to develop and execute winning processes and strategies that will cover the life?cycle

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CEO Succession Tips How To 393

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. A well-defined yet flexible execution process.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

But while these leaders reported they were ready to grow again, they were less sanguine about their ability to execute growth strategies. Finally, the firms were asked about the leadership practices that we know are associated with effective management of growth. Where did things start to get ugly?

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Stage-Gate Report Project Uncertainty 21

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 198 senior innovation executives late last year, in partnership with the consulting firm Innosight, we found them using two different kinds of measures. 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

MAY 27, 2014

Last fall, when it was still not clear who would be the next chief executive of Microsoft, Jack Welch recommended Sam Palmisano for the job. Bill Gates did not choose to take Microsoft private (it would have cost a lot ), and insider Satya Nadella became the company’s new CEO. But investors — he didn’t have a problem with them at all.

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

A study of more than two dozen consumer packaged goods companies that I led while working as a senior executive at Nielsen reveals exactly what they should be looking for instead: an innovation organizer. The senior leadership team needs to respect and adhere to the same standards as everyone else.

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Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data. They are modeling scientists.

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Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate. These high-level process owners report to members of the senior executive team. It also educates everyone involved so that future business cases become increasingly realistic.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate. Executive exodus: In 2008, Tony Fadell, senior vice president of the iPod division, stepped down. Yes, Steve Jobs actually unveiled a leather iPod pouch on stage. Volatile stock: In 2008, under Jobs, the stock price dropped by more than 50%. Bad product reviews: One word: Ping.

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Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions. This generally has to do with soft skills, things the organization can't teach you like leadership skills, the ability to work effectively with a team, time management and follow through, being persistent. Particularly at more junior positions.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Musk, who is also seeking to disrupt the conventional automobile industry with his dreams for the Tesla electric vehicle, has had his companies (and their associated dreams) characterized by entrepreneur Peter Theil, with whom he co-founded PayPal, as: “… executing against a vision measured not in years but in decades.”

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

An independent steering committee’s first “gate” review of the project, at the end of the conceptual-design stage, had been scheduled for Week 15; she postpones it to Week 33. 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.

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

Another example: After a Microsoft employee’s young son had reached his lifetime medical coverage for leukemia, the employee sent an email to Bill Gates, who was CEO at the time. When the employee left Gates’s office, his son had insurance coverage. That’s not the kind of story you want circulating in your company.

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Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 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 a more focused approach may be more worthwhile.

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Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Every day, senior executives get bombarded with ideas—and most of them are either woefully underdeveloped or downright batty. Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. We understand how a CEO might come to such a conclusion. After a while, they all think alike.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair. Broadband access is really quite unique for a country at this stage of development. Leadership, combined with the sense people have of how they link up with the leadership. Kagame: Right.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10