Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

So, how would you prepare for a stage gate meeting that includes a "Go/No-Go" decision on continuing to develop a specific product? Just as crucial is the methodology- asking the right questions from the outset that are relevant to the gate decision. He manages strategic accounts and oversees Signals’s partnership program.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Leadership. by John • February 5, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. When I was a young product manager back in the ’70s, the only people I could talk to about brands were my colleagues in the marketing department and the advertising agency. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

Leadership. After the stint at Bristol-Myers, I moved on to Beecham Products (now GlaxoSmithKline) as Brand Manager of Brylcreem Hairdressing, Macleans Toothpaste and Silvikrin Shampoo. Once a band has lost its luster and has fallen from the top 3 or 4 in its category, the opportunity for a successful re-stage is limited.

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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Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. It’s helpful to first understand the various stages involved in improving business processes. Assign a leader to this organization and establish a leadership team to support that person. In the U.S., Handoff errors would result.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

This is the primary responsibility of product managers. She’s accomplished this through, among other things, focusing on product management: Bartz transformed Autodesk through a series of smart acquisitions and by encouraging new product development. The development of ideas is not an easy undertaking.

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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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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. You see, before anything made it onto the agenda of the top management's biweekly meeting, it was vetted. The idea generator had to show the idea to their line manager. And screened.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Most recognized the importance of top management support, project management expertise, identifying unmet customer needs, and understanding new segments in emerging economies, and most said they didn't perform as well as they needed to in these areas. The responding firms' lowest-rated capabilities were in managing merger integrations.

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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. Visible senior management involvement. So Stage-Gate models can unintentionally kill potentially big ideas.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Leadership. by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. The reason: a fundamental flaw in the management process that is supposed to renew brand health. The blemish is the abdication of brand attention by top management. In the CEO Afterlife.

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Brand CEO Stage-Gate SWOT 168

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. Acknowledgements.

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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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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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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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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough by Starbucker on October 10, 2010 Jack Welch at the World Business Forum, October 5 2010 (Photo by dov.com) Charisma – “ a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty ” (Webster Dictionary) You notice them the minute they enter a room. That aura, that confidence, that vibe.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. The Centers of Gravity (CoG) that will be influenced: Leadership, Process, Infrastructure, Populations, and Action Units. Execution within the Strategic Context is not complex, but the leadership required to do the work is REALLY hard! By Damian D.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The senior leadership team needs to respect and adhere to the same standards as everyone else. As an example consider stage-gates, decision points at which time new products are reviewed before moving forward in the development process. Innovation Leadership Product development'

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Every manager in the company should know the answer to that question. One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate. There are many things companies can do with IT, but if management doesn''t establish priorities, it''s easy to do many things badly.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet. Check out these healthy habits of #leadership experts @MichaelHyatt, @MarkTimm, and @48DaysTeam Click To Tweet.

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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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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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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenges of urban K-12 education in the United States, and indeed globally, are at a crisis stage. presidential administrations.

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Education Innovation Stage-Gate Software 14

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.

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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. 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.”

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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. 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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