CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

They define your shared belief system. 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.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

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.

Process 15

Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

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?

Stage-Gate 13

Stage-Gate Airlines Brand Loyalty 13

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 16

Stage-Gate PR CEO Brand 16

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 15

Stage-Gate PR CEO Brand 15

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. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.” The glacial pace at which banks have moved SME lending online has left them vulnerable.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Examples of the work products of these data scientists are: recommendation systems which recommend what shirt a customer might like or what medicine a physician should consider prescribing based on a designed optimization function, such as optimizing for customer clicks or for minimizing readmission rates to the hospital. Who to hire.

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I’m not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. 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? Martin Birt on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Search My Site.

Brand 168

Brand CEO Stage-Gate SWOT 168

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

IT leaders have long embraced the idea that the role of the IT unit, and of enterprise IT systems, is to enable business. Companies cannot fritter away their valuable resources, whether in the form of money, systems, or most importantly, people. The word, Exploit, makes some IT leaders squirm. It''s hard to get this right.

CIO 8

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.

Health Care 11

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

As an example consider stage-gates, decision points at which time new products are reviewed before moving forward in the development process. Ideally an outside facilitator leads the discussion and analysis, and the findings are captured permanently into a knowledge management system.

Innovation 8

Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

It is important to always know that all known systems and things have a beginning and an end, and specific actions produce specific ends. 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). Remember the Alamo.

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CEO Succession Tips How To 340

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

By understanding and addressing the barriers, we have the ability to develop on-ramps and pathways to engage MBA talent at varying stages of their careers. Today, he is a program officer for Next Generation Learning Models at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And what does it take to keep them on this path?

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Career Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Companies have their own value system (not necessarily the people heading it, but for the organisation) and they are profit/target driven mainly – not necessarily providing what their employees want for their own fulfilment. June Angus ( Raven’s Gate ) The number one thing I look for is perseverance.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

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. I believe we can create a system and culture to perpetuate this culture of entrepreneurial and start-up spirit. Whatever has been stable, I will disrupt that stability.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

See if you can determine where the team went wrong: Ana is the experienced, 39-year-old project manager of a global semiconductor company’s strategically important effort to create an innovative driver-interface system for the 2017 model of a European automaker’s most popular passenger car. She reschedules the first gate for Week 42.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The first stage is when it does what was being done before but better. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates. It won't be done by current system. It will be done by people who have nothing to do with current system.". It's hard to know when it will happen but at some point this will be transformative.

Education 13

Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 13

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. Littered among the failed endeavors are a few real companies, such as SchoolNet, which has installed Instructional Management Systems in one third of the large urban school districts across the United States. How do we get it right?

Education 14

Education Innovation Stage-Gate Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Many business conferences are notable not only for the prominent people on stage, but also for those who are missing. Women’s under-representation at such events gets a lot of attention, but people of color are also relatively rare on conference stages. Have a farm system. Be deeply transparent.

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Conference Stage-Gate Proposal Ries 12

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Redefine accountability , so that rather than traditional, top-down authority, we have more modern systems. Philanthropists in the United States have donated billions of dollars, with the Gates Foundation alone outspending the World Health Organization on global health issues.

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Stage-Gate Innovation Project Learning-by-Doing 97

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Even more difficult is to build a business that requires capital out of the gate. But if you need funding in the seed stages, before validation, there is very little capital in the system. So the Indian seed stage ecosystem is really small. As far as I am concerned, all those permutations and combinations are fine.

Incubator 8

Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

On February 14, 2014, Stanford students Elizabeth Woodson and Saul Gurdus drove a rented Winnebago to the San Mateo office of the Golden Gate Regional Center (GGRC), where they greeted eight curious GGRC staff members. No single stage felt broken from the vantage point of individual staffers.

Case Study 8

Case Study Stage-Gate Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

It takes a systematic approach to build a systemic capability—whether that is Amazon’s logistics prowess or the near-flawless service you receive as a guest at a Four Seasons hotel. Taking a systemic view. So it is with innovation. Our research and experience suggest that inquiry is at the heart of it.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One myth for me is that creating unique content for a matrix of each stage of the buying journey for each distinct customer segment is simply not sustainable for most companies. Not every company should be focusing on a blog right out of the gate. Another one is "Salesy content" is not the same as content that can inspire sales.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

.” The Brookings report’s most peculiar finding is that VC investment in cleantech has shifted toward later-stage deals. The federal government is often better positioned to fund risky early-stage technology than private companies because those companies don’t typically capture the full benefits of those investments.

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Rational-experimental problem solving was built around a series of stages, each leading up to the identification of a solution. The similarities between the steps in the two methods are so literal that design thinking can come across as a knock-off.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8