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Moving Beyond Stage-Gate Project Management

Harvard Business Review

This article describes how German automaker BMW and European airline Air France have developed new approaches to managing large projects aimed at creating fundamentally new products, ideas or that profoundly alter human behaviors.

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New Job? Five Mistakes We All Make.

Rich Gee Group

Your job is to blast out of the starting gate, make some quick wins, and fill up your new savings account with good-will currency. Come in early, stay late, and attack any project/task with increased vigor. You are on stage right now and many people are silently grading you. You can work as hard as you did at your last job.

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New Job? Five Mistakes We All Make.

Rich Gee Group

Your job is to blast out of the starting gate, make some quick wins, and fill up your new savings account with good-will currency. Come in early, stay late, and attack any project/task with increased vigor. You are on stage right now and many people are silently grading you. You can work as hard as you did at your last job.

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WorkFlow Optimization Begins with You: 3 Types of Software No Business Owner Should Forget to Implement

Strategy Driven

Bill Gates and Paul Allen shared a passion for computers and technology, and Microsoft is the result of their work. Project Management Software. The initial stage in a workflow process for most businesses is some sort of consultation, request, or order from a customer.

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Organizational Transformation Requires Leadership at all Levels

Great Leadership By Dan

Leadership in actively and effectively engaging with key stakeholders and sustaining their buy-in ensures the expected business outcomes are realized at each phase or stage gate of the organizational transformation.

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3 Personal Lessons On How To Succeed At Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates. This approach is something we often read about in terms of innovation – of how we can develop a new product or service offering by running various experiments or pilot projects to test the viability of these new ideas.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

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. How do you prevent a drop-off? The Architect.