Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. While historically easier said than done, the work this company did to increase certainty and decrease risk in new product development is increasingly feasible.

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

It is incumbent upon us, whether we’re a blue lobster or not, to find, nurture and develop blue lobsters. Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. Attracting, hiring and developing blue lobsters is in their DNA. The key to innovation has been and always will be People.

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Innovation Stage-Gate Blanchard Social Capital 140

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 7, 2016

The TRIZ approach and best practices such as the Stage-Gate Process can greatly benefit each other. These approaches are not rivals, but rather can be used to amplify each other’s successes. Continue reading →

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TRIZ Stage-Gate Process Productivity 71

Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

As a leader, you are always on stage. How about that issue of stage presence? A multi-million dollar CEO was forced to resign; a flight attendant chose not to wait for the jetway to depart and an office worker named “Jenny” shared her white board based resignation letter with millions when it went viral online. 

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Stage-Gate Letter Blog Executive Coaching 175

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet. Check out these healthy habits of #leadership experts @MichaelHyatt, @MarkTimm, and @48DaysTeam Click To Tweet.

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

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.

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Stage-Gate Open-book Letter Blog 126

Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

In many cases, these great products have developed into product lines, companies and even industries. Ideas need development to become strategies. The development of ideas is not an easy undertaking. In fact, most of the great ideas took a long time and a lot of hard work to develop into the useful products they are today.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

It is incumbent upon us, whether we’re a blue lobster or not, to find, nurture and develop blue lobsters. Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. Attracting, hiring and developing blue lobsters is in their DNA. The key to innovation has been and always will be People.

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Innovation Stage-Gate Blanchard Social Capital 91

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 27, 2020

When I left Leadership Network late last year I didn’t see entering into another pastorate this quickly or if ever. I fully expect we will develop ministries and Gospel offerings to people that will advance the Gospel for years to come. Grieving has stages. But here I am again. The personal problem. That excites me.

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Tips Stage-Gate Crisis Definition 96

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. But without effective leadership, corporate purpose feels abstract and disconnected from an employee’s day-to-day job. Too often, the focus turns to profit. 2) What is it that the world really needs?

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. But without effective leadership, corporate purpose feels abstract and disconnected from an employee’s day-to-day job. Small to midsize businesses often have a good understanding of why they do what they do.

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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.

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Process Stage-Gate Innovation Net Present Value 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

In particular, most respondents expected growth in emerging markets to become more important, as the underlying growth rate in developed economies remains sluggish. Finally, the firms were asked about the leadership practices that we know are associated with effective management of growth. Where did things start to get ugly?

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Adrienne Tom ( Career Impressions ) ​ My #1 tip for being successful in a career today would be ongoing investment in professional development and skills development. They will help you realise your strengths and achievements and guide you in your career development and realisation. Emotional Intelligence.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is about developing hypotheses about the future. 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.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

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. Compared to our original plan, a larger part of the development phase will now be executed in 2013. She reschedules the first gate for Week 42.

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Stage-Gate Execution Innovation Management 9

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 a more focused approach may be more worthwhile.

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Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 10

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. Invest in leadership development. Create robust experiences.

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Stage-Gate Career Entrepreneur Short-term 10

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. The senior leadership team needs to respect and adhere to the same standards as everyone else. Innovation Leadership Product development' Two to three are optimal.

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Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Modeling scientist: Direct improvements in the product or business from the code developed and shipped. Data quality and data governance: tools, processes, guidelines to ensure data is correct, gated and monitored, documented, standardized. What are the measures of success? What are some examples? Who to hire.

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Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

This is about engaging project sponsors, system users, architects, and development teams in a clear understanding of the actual value received and how that relates to the business case originally used to justify the project. One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next. The other type of metric, an “impact” metric, shows that the ship is actually going somewhere.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 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.

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. In our experience, most leadership development programs give scant attention to these innovation-enabling attitudes and behaviors.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

He has presided over an economic and social rebirth, with Rwanda making dramatic gains in health and development indicators ( watching its recent progress on Gapminder is a remarkable sight). And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 14