In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

by John • August 1, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 0 Comments. At that time, Bristol-Myers also marketed a slew of also-rans such as Ipana and Fact Toothpaste, Vitalis Hair Tonic, Softique Bath Oil and Mum and Trig Deodorant. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Old Brands. Last Stands. Where are they now?

Brand 131

Brand CEO Stage-Gate Marketing 131

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

In fact, a great way to increase productivity in a workplace is to cross-train employees across departments. Bill Gates is the master of staying ahead of the pack in the business world. The temperature is dropping quickly in the desert night. Know where to apply your energies and you’ll be working faster and more efficiently.

Management 150

Management Stage-Gate Ethics Marketing 150

Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

Even the most basic items did not exist before someone (or ones) came up with an impression of a product or service that would be useful in some way. When you stop and think about it, the number of incredible products and services available today is truly amazing. This is the primary responsibility of product managers.

Strategy 100

Strategy Stage-Gate Productivity Products 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In some of these markets, minorities are in fact the majority. I'm a product of a market like this. Our grocery stores have very different products than the ones on the mainland. African Americans, Latinos and younger consumers prefer sweeter flavors and products. Blend the two and you have a winning market map.

Marketing 15

Marketing Stage-Gate Industry Productivity 15

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. This is a story about leaving “our lover”, the industry we know and seeking success in the unknown.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

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. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. They’re less productive, take more “unhealthy” days off of work, and cost your company money. Which behaviors will contribute to a healthier, more productive working environment? Disengaged employees are bad news for your business.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. They’re less productive, take more “unhealthy” days off of work, and cost your company money. . Which behaviors will contribute to a healthier, more productive working environment? Disengaged employees are bad news for your business.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

I think it's more a case of their being dissatisfied with their own lives and expecting that Apple's next product will fix everything. The constant refrain is that Apple has not introduced a disruptive product since Steve Jobs passed away. Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate. Bad product reviews: One word: Ping.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. When you’re pouring every spare minute into growing your business, taking a break to visit the gym often feels counter-productive. Dan Miller of 48 Days. Keep moving!

Succession 316

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

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%). In particular, most respondents expected growth in emerging markets to become more important, as the underlying growth rate in developed economies remains sluggish. That's terrific.

Stage-Gate 21

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. What are some examples?

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.”

Banking 11

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

Project 8

Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 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. The bad news is that the job market is really tight, and it’s preventing us from hiring the conceptual designers we need.” It’s nose-to-the-grindstone time!”

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

In practice, a start-up is in its early stages is not making a profit and is therefore not paying income tax — making it ineligible to use the R&D tax credit under current law. The R&D tax credit under current law can only be used as a credit against income tax paid — not as a credit against other taxes a business pays.

Stage-Gate 15

Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Some examples: how many employees have been trained in “lean startup” methodology, or how many new product ideas are currently being researched. Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. The five most commonly used metrics were: Revenue generated by new products.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Data-driven storytelling is poised to be the next big trend in content marketing. Indeed, companies are already harnessing its power at every stage in the customer relationship lifecycle—from building up-front brand awareness to reminding customers of their success. Generate leads from your key audience, like IBM.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Brand Content Media 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Today we’re seeing a maturing of the industry, and entrepreneurs now want to build products as well. Or they want to combine products and services. Even more difficult is to build a business that requires capital out of the gate. So the Indian seed stage ecosystem is really small.

Incubator 8

Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

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 what to do?

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

If an employee comes up with a great new product or a technical discovery during R&D, aren’t they likely to leave the company, either to found a startup or to join a competitor? times more R&D than small companies, but their R&D is 13% more productive — meaning large firms are the real engine of economic growth.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. Gates has used the term to refer to children born after 1994, describing them as the first generation to grow up with the Internet.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Stage-Gate Content 15

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.”. Are today’s investors really that horrible?

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

In practice, a start-up is in its early stages is not making a profit and is therefore not paying income tax — making it ineligible to use the R&D tax credit under current law. The R&D tax credit under current law can only be used as a credit against income tax paid — not as a credit against other taxes a business pays.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. Identifying and supporting pathways to implementation. An immediate answer to the question “who implements and how?

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

For icons such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, so goes the lore, finishing a bachelor’s degree would have only stifled the creativity that fueled their companies to stratospheric success. Successfully commercializing a product depends upon clean and clear lines of intellectual property ownership.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Finance Analysis Training 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. If you enjoy your work, you'll be more productive, more motivated and a better team player.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

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. Innovators see their organization, and the world around it, as a portfolio of skills and assets that can be endlessly recombined into new products and busi­nesses.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

They must be bold in their actions, willing to take calculated risks together that will have the greatest potential to achieve major, market?shifting They must be disciplined and focused , concentrating all of their efforts at critical points and times to capitalize on key market opportunities to meet the demands. shifting results.

CEO 340

CEO Succession Tips How To 340

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The criticisms are several: that design thinking is poorly defined ; that the case for its use relies more on anecdotes than data; that it is little more than basic commonsense, repackaged and then marketed for a hefty consulting fee.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 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. 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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 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. In these cases Rwanda had eroded assets, but there was a foundation and a proof point, a market test that these areas could be successful and they could be competitive. Or make your farm more productive.

Porter 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10