Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. When you get enough of them together, you create a blue lobster organization – one that creates positive disruption. It is incumbent upon us, whether we’re a blue lobster or not, to find, nurture and develop blue lobsters. Blue Lobsters.

Innovation 91

Innovation Stage-Gate Blanchard Social Capital 91

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. How Does This Change the New Product Development Process?

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Stage-Gate Innovation Productivity Products 128

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

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. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Recent Comments Alan Kay on Turnarounds and the Big Play John on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Now I ask you.

Brand 170

Brand CEO Stage-Gate Marketing 170

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 11, 2021

After all, hugely successful people, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg famously didn’t finish college before building their hugely successful businesses. Tamo Junto are intervening at the very early stage of this process, and often need to forment the notion of oneself as an entrepreneur in the first place.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Crisis Learning-by-Doing 105

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

That’s when it is prudent to increase media spending; at this stage, today’s customers will be ready to listen. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Recent Comments Alan Kay on Turnarounds and the Big Play John on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Search My Site. Search for: Categories.

CEO 168

CEO Brand Stage-Gate Human Resources 168

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

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. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Recent Comments Alan Kay on Turnarounds and the Big Play John on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Now I ask you.

Brand 131

Brand CEO Stage-Gate Marketing 131

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Krames: While I was writing my book on Pope Francis, I asked over 200 people who they felt was the most effective leader on the world stage today. Guest post from Jeffrey A. I even gave many hints, such as "the person is living and doing well, does not live in the U.S., has little money, but makes news several times a week around the world."

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Open-book Stage-Gate Leadership Welch 238

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Once the product-development stage concludes, a fancy marketing campaign is used to glamorize the team’s hard work, labor, and perseverance, ready to compete against other products of the same league. Building a new product is a daunting task that requires the collaborative efforts of many people. Pick a date.

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Productivity Products Planning Stage-Gate 79

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 9, 2011

He also knows that current Prostate Cancer treatments post a success rate of over 90% when caught in the early stages. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Recent Comments Alan Kay on Turnarounds and the Big Play John on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Search My Site. Search for: Categories.

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Stage-Gate Human Resources CEO Brand 100

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

All of these factors can impact your new business’s bottom line, and you don’t want to enter into an unprofitable business from the start because you overlooked an important question or two in the preliminary stages. You want to ensure you’re coming out of the gate swinging in order for your new company to be a success.

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Stage-Gate Real Estate Finance PR 50

CO2

APRIL 8, 2013

Build a stage-gate process for ideas to be introduced and developed. Provide a forum for employees to propose, discuss, and vote on ideas (yours and theirs) before they’re implemented. The willingness to expose your ideas to so many people up front likely will help you filter out second-rate ideas.

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Entrepreneur Management Stage-Gate Idea Generation 117

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

It’s only at this stage that today’s customers are prepared to listen. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Recent Comments Alan Kay on Turnarounds and the Big Play John on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Martin Birt on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen?

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Magazine Brand Article Marketing 100

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 14, 2019

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

Software 51

Software Stage-Gate Teamwork Proposal 51

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2015

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.

Leadership 120

Leadership Stage-Gate Critical Success Factor Objective 120

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 27, 2020

Grieving has stages. But God has made promises for His church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. All those plans changed suddenly after only a few weeks on the job. That’s a loss.). We don’t grieve like the rest of the world, but we should grieve. Every loss deserves a grief period. And they are different for everyone.

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Tips Crisis Stage-Gate Edmondson 90

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates. In this light, it becomes easier to appreciate that one outcome of the lessons we’ve learned up to this point is to help set the stage for the experiences and insights we need to learn next to help us become the leader those we serve need us to be.

Leadership 278

Leadership How To Learning-by-Doing Commitment 278

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

When they appear on stage or in a meeting, the electricity is palpable. A wonderful, special gift, much like artistic, athletic, or musical ones that put those lucky enough to have it a notch ahead of the rest of us at the starting gate. That aura, that confidence, that vibe. All eyes will find them. And they will attract a crowd.

Charisma 309

Charisma Welch Leadership Self-aware 309

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Bill Gates is the master of staying ahead of the pack in the business world. If your team becomes relied upon, you’re seen as the hardest working, producing the most value for the company, and therefore you’ll make a name for yourselves.

Management 150

Management Ethics Leadership Stage-Gate 150

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

You should be placing a strong emphasis on customer satisfaction no matter what stage your business is in, but it’s especially important to make sure you’re not getting distracted by scalability. Bill Gates had Buffet , and Mark Zuckerberg had Steve Jobs. Set yourself some medium-term goals, and stick to them!

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Long-term Short-term Mentor Stage-Gate 63

Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

As a leader, you are always on stage. How about that issue of stage presence? First, he encourages bosses to remember the toxic tandem – that your team is watching you very closely and that it’s really important that you be aware that they’re watching you. Maybe Mark Hurd forgot about that.  

Leadership 175

Leadership Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing Open-book 175

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Author Steven Pressfield, the creative genius behind the book (and later movie) entitled, The Legend of Baggar Vance , as well as the beautifully written historical fiction book entitled The Gates of Fire (about the famed battle of Thermopylae), among others, offers one of the keenest insights into human nature I've ever encountered.

Open-book 126

Open-book Stage-Gate Leadership Books 126

Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

In Bartz’s case, there is a queue of TPSE to work through before they stage gate the emerging ideas against strategy alignment. Strategy alignment is an many-to-many proposition in a company that has been around for a long time. They will probably work both ends towards the middle.

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Strategy Stage-Gate Leadership Productivity 100

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Leadership must remain on one accord through a high level of trust, accountability and commitment in order to win the front and back gates of their desired outcomes (perspective). Exit your past, empower your future and allow your greatness to assist you in the conquering of new states through humility. Remember the Alamo.

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CEO Succession Tips How To 393

Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

No matter if you’re in the early stages of your leadership journey or you’re a well-seasoned leader, you won’t have all the answers. During a game, he received a call on his walkie-talkie that there was someone at the gate with a counterfeit ticket and the man said he knew David. So, she asked.

Leadership 157

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Motivation Price 157

Rajesh Setty

JANUARY 27, 2013

This is the next stage of elimination where you really give them your real attention and contemplate a bit. As they started becoming popular, others (most notable being Bill Gates) came to him. This is not a bad thing as you need to get a LOT of ideas before some of them turn out to be GOOD ideas. Death at First Filter. Who you are.

How To 75

How To Stage-Gate Banking Learning-by-Doing 75

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

By the time idea generators had gone through this gauntlet of gate-keepers, their ideas became watered down and wafer thin — acceptable to everyone, exciting to no one. Another approach is to document different criteria for early-stage ideas. How can you tell whether your company suffers from iteration-itis?

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Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Idea Generation Leadership 15

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 Learning-by-Doing 54

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Almost every company has a Stage Gate process because they work well for incremental innovation. Breakthrough (changes the game) innovations, contrary to popular belief, need a top-down approach.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Bill Gates’ vision for Microsoft (“A computer on every desk and in every home”) would have been a lot less tangible had he written it as: “Becoming a world leader in the software industry.”. The final stage to building corporate purpose is to assess how well your organization is living it.

Leadership 78

Leadership Mission Statement Organization Learning-by-Doing 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Of course, McCain's selection of Palin also changed the conversation; but what initially looked like an inspired decision quickly led to recriminations as Palin revealed herself to be unprepared for the national stage (witness her infamous Katie Couric interview ).

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Stage-Gate PR CEO Execution 16

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.

Succession 70

Succession Learning-by-Doing Stage-Gate Industry 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Of course, McCain's selection of Palin also changed the conversation; but what initially looked like an inspired decision quickly led to recriminations as Palin revealed herself to be unprepared for the national stage (witness her infamous Katie Couric interview ).

Stage-Gate 13

Stage-Gate PR CEO Execution 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

Second, they take a few basic ingredients — brand, marketing, technology, and service — and combine them in just the right ways over the course of five stages. In each stage, they ask themselves what gaps need to be filled. Stage 1: Is there a recognition gap? Stage 2: Is there a brand-personalization gap?

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Stage-Gate Airlines Loyalty Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Incremental innovation can be pushed down into the organization where the strategy is clear, decision metrics are understood, and management models like Stage-Gate create a level playing field. So Stage-Gate models can unintentionally kill potentially big ideas. However, for game-changing innovation it's the opposite.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

An independent steering committee’s first “gate” review of the project, at the end of the conceptual-design stage, had been scheduled for Week 15; she postpones it to Week 33. She reschedules the first gate for Week 42. She schedules the new first-gate review for Week 79. That won’t be easy, given the job market.”.

Innovation 8

Innovation Execution Stage-Gate Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

The challenges of urban K-12 education in the United States, and indeed globally, are at a crisis stage. 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. presidential administrations.

Education 13

Education Innovation Stage-Gate Business Model 13

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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Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8