Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

It is a joint project between the Royal College of Art and Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London where designers and engineers can work in close contact with clinicians to identify challenges and provide solutions.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

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. But there's an acquisition gap, too. Where did things start to get ugly?

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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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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Without realizing it, even well-managed businesses versed in modern management practices can generate an environment that is hostile to innovation. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. following a traditional stage-gate process).

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

As obvious as it might sound, the motivational power of progress is a big surprise to most managers. Managers may be unaware of how important progress is to human motivation, but it's one of the first secrets that every good video game designer learns. Truly effective managers do the same for their subordinates.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

These customer experience management initiatives can be complex. To understand the work, first you need to understand an airport's business model: its real customer isn't travelers, but the airlines that rent the gates and terminals, much like a mall owner leases space to retailers.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. No one wants to work harder for a complacent or mediocre manager, however, every employee wants to be led by an enthusiastic leader that helps them become more passionate about their work. Sandip Roy of Happiness India Project. Dan Miller of 48 Days.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Business change initiatives (those that involve IT projects) engage enormous resources — not just IT and financial resources, but human time and emotion. At most companies, business and IT leaders cannot immediately answer the question, "What percentage of your projects fully realize their expected business benefits?"

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The first stage is when it does what was being done before but better. We manage this transition very carefully. We see three components to MIT- first there's the student life, then there's the classroom instruction, but for us, the projects and labs activity is where real education occurs. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft.

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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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Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 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

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. Not every company should be focusing on a blog right out of the gate. 3) That your intern can manage your content strategy. Just do it.

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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. So what does it take to attract these students to pursue careers with a focus on social impact?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

And they watch for and stop the common problem of their team members or other senior leaders pushing pet projects through product development. As an example consider stage-gates, decision points at which time new products are reviewed before moving forward in the development process.

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Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 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. 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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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

When they appear on stage or in a meeting, the electricity is palpable. I’ve also been fortunate to work for two CEO’s that had plenty of charisma, and I always marveled at their ability to project such “presence” in any public space they inhabited. That aura, that confidence, that vibe. All eyes will find them. Oh yes we can.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Moreover, many notable founders, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out of college. Employees there learn hard skills, such as project management, but also softer skills, such as politics and networking. First Round looked at the impact of alma mater on company performance. Where do the best new ventures form?

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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. Searching for new ideas at Haier involves a competitive screening of business model proposals, open to all, out of which projects and project leaders are chosen.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Leading organizations and teams to respond using the best tactical approach will determine if the organization can really deploy the needed projected force with the ability to move freely by means of sufficient sustainability for prolonged operations. Remember the Alamo. Man has all he needs to effect change and thus his own success.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

This is an ambitious project and it’s not surprising because it’s founded by ever enterprising Sramana Mitra. Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It, too, was enthusiastically embraced by managers and policy makers, and was invoked to reshape practices in firms and government. Rational-experimental problem solving was built around a series of stages, each leading up to the identification of a solution.

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