Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. It’s helpful to first understand the various stages involved in improving business processes. system to delivering the product via logistics operations, to collecting the cash from customers. In the U.S.,

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 269

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%). Indeed, only one firm was confident in its capacity to practice "entrepreneurial management" and "controlled risk-taking.". Where did things start to get ugly? That's terrific.

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Stage-Gate Report Project Uncertainty 21

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.

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Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. Visible senior management involvement.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Leadership. by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. The blemish is the abdication of brand attention by top management.

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Brand CEO Stage-Gate SWOT 168

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. Find the truth.

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Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious. Leadership and teams find it hard to come together to scope and resource projects appropriately as well as put projects on the shelf (or kill them) when needed.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

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. They do, however, have to be managed intelligently. But investors — he didn’t have a problem with them at all.

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. cycle of their organization, its service offerings and products, and the approach to the marketplace. The Centers of Gravity (CoG) that will be influenced: Leadership, Process, Infrastructure, Populations, and Action Units. By Damian D.

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CEO Succession Tips How To 393

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

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

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. At some point in the future, however, as it moves more assuredly onto the global stage, China will need both a new generation of dreamers and new dreams, especially in business.

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

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. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions.

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

An employee of Haier, the Chinese manufacturer, told us that CEO Zhang Ruimin once shut down production after he found minor dents and scratches on appliances that were coming off a manufacturing line. He instructed employees to take hammers in hand — not to fix the flaws but to destroy the imperfect products.

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Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. 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.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. 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. And it’s not just your company.

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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. We keep sending our people to institutions of higher learning in the sciences, engineering, and management. Broadband access is really quite unique for a country at this stage of development.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10