CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Many corporate visions also don’t provide a clear way to know if you’ve reached your goal because they lack tangible metrics. Bill Gates’ vision for Microsoft (“A computer on every desk and in every home”) would have been a lot less tangible had he written it as: “Becoming a world leader in the software industry.”

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Many corporate visions also don’t provide a clear way to know if you’ve reached your goal because they lack tangible metrics. Bill Gates’ vision for Microsoft (“A computer on every desk and in every home”) would have been a lot less tangible had he written it as: “Becoming a world leader in the software industry.”.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

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. As for decision-making there is one simple rule in pursuit of breakthroughs: "The higher the goal the higher the role."

Process 15

Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

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. However, for game-changing innovation it's the opposite.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Set career goals and understand salary benchmarks. Learn all you can. This will keep you competitive and relevant.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

following a traditional stage-gate process). Although there’s no best model as different archetypes can apply to goals and contexts, we recommend to always start by applying the 7-Roles framework first.

Innovation 9

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

The two were sitting on stage at Radio City Music Hall chatting about business-y stuff when the retired GE CEO made the suggestion, and I was a little surprised when the retired IBM CEO didn’t dismiss it out of hand. I’d be interested, Palmisano replied, but only “if Bill took the company private.”.

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2020

When looking for funding at any stage, a strong customer base will make the whole process infinitely easier. Here are some strategies your company needs to be considering getting customers at that early stage. Bill Gates said it in the 90s – content is king. That’s why marketing is such an essential thing for startups to nail.

Marketing Strategy 82

Marketing Strategy Marketing PR Stage-Gate 82

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. I have found that with self-awareness comes clarity about my goals and vision for my life. They can focus on the goals they have set before themselves and not get distracted by the noise of the world. I set goals and stick with my plan to achieve them.

Succession 316

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

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

By understanding and addressing the barriers, we have the ability to develop on-ramps and pathways to engage MBA talent at varying stages of their careers. Today, he is a program officer for Next Generation Learning Models at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And what does it take to keep them on this path?

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Career Entrepreneur Short-term 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.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

These bars are tangible indicators of how close the player is to reaching the next major game level, the next step within the current level, and the next mini-goal within the current step. Truly effective video game designers know how to create a sense of progress for players within all stages of a game.

Video 14

Video Stage-Gate Motivation Project 14

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.

Case Study 8

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., One myth for me is that creating unique content for a matrix of each stage of the buying journey for each distinct customer segment is simply not sustainable for most companies. Not every company should be focusing on a blog right out of the gate. 1) That more is better.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Rational-experimental problem solving was built around a series of stages, each leading up to the identification of a solution. The similarities between the steps in the two methods are so literal that design thinking can come across as a knock-off.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 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. Working together for a common goal that is theirs. In other circles, Kagame is not so popular. Kagame: Right.

Porter 9

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 9