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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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. Creating the Future Picture in your mind and understanding how to effectively communicate it to others will accelerate the actions needed for success. By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. C2: Identify Means.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

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. And screened. To key staff members of senior leaders.

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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.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next. The first was the difficulty in creating a set of metrics that are aligned with what senior leadership actually cares about. After all, their survival hinged on figuring out how to make things click. Number of ideas generated.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

That was the answer from a recent Harvard Business School MBA graduate when asked why he decided to participate in the School's Leadership Fellows program — a one-year management fellowship in nonprofit and public-sector organizations. Invest in leadership development. And what does it take to keep them on this path?

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Stage-Gate Career Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data quality and data governance: tools, processes, guidelines to ensure data is correct, gated and monitored, documented, standardized. To answer that question, first decide what stage you are in with your data operation, and second ask how vital data is to your product. How to organize. Who to hire.

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Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate. A bonus result: IT leaders have a better sense of what makes the business tick, and members of the executive leadership team have a better sense of when and how to make IT investments that matter.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The same could well be said of Bill Gates, who has left mere connectivity behind in his quest to eradicate major human diseases. One lesson on how to address this question comes, ironically, from an old-economy company. What all of these entrepreneurs have in common is that they are dreaming big — much bigger than the rest of us.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

In order to ‘win’ a new job, a promotion, or a major career change you need to know how to sell yourself – and you can’t sell something you don’t fully understand. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions. Identifying personal strengths and backing up 2.

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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 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. Courtesy of Robert I.

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In their quest to upend industry rules, they learn how to distinguish “immutable laws” from “ingrained beliefs.” Executives realized that to do this, they would need to reallocate some of the company’s innovation resources from late-stage product enhancements to early-stage product breakthroughs.

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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. So we are doing everything 24 hours a day thinking about how to increase our energy capacity. Broadband access is really quite unique for a country at this stage of development. We need energy.

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