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 68

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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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Stage-Gate Project Management Airlines 26

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2015

These organizations have developed strong transformation capability. Given organizational matrices, work complexities, and corporate politics, the transformation team relies heavily on leadership traits to secure support, overcome barriers, resolve escalated issues and manage risks across organizational divisions, functions, and levels.

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Leadership Stage-Gate Critical Success Factor Objective 120

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.  

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Stage-Gate Letter Blog Executive Coaching 175

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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Strategy Stage-Gate Productivity Products 100

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 124

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2020

When looking for funding at any stage, a strong customer base will make the whole process infinitely easier. Here are some strategies your company needs to be considering getting customers at that early stage. Bill Gates said it in the 90s – content is king. That’s why marketing is such an essential thing for startups to nail.

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Marketing Strategy Marketing PR Stage-Gate 82

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. Dan Miller of 48 Days. Photo by Ethan Sykes.

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

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 78

Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

And the zest here is a fitting and well-thought-through innovation management process. GUEST POST from Dainora Jocuite While improvisation might bring the zest to a comedy performance or to your Saturday night’s Bolognese sauce, in the world of innovation a systematic approach is the way to go.

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Process Innovation Stage-Gate Management 96

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.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Here’s a guide to managing a rapidly expanding business…. 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.

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Short-term Long-term Stage-Gate Mentor 63

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. They offer strategies like content development, email marketing, creative and branding, and more.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Management involvement tends to happen only when the ideas are "ready" to be pushed up and sometimes even that isn't necessary. In pursuit of breakthrough, management is not the enemy as it is so often portrayed.

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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. Indeed, only one firm was confident in its capacity to practice "entrepreneurial management" and "controlled risk-taking.". But there's an acquisition gap, too.

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Stage-Gate Report Project Uncertainty 22

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. It is about developing hypotheses about the future. Visible senior management involvement. the company may not look so relevant in that future.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

What puts those companies ahead is their effective use of both art and science in app development. 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.

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Stage-Gate Airlines Brand Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

Managers working on ideas discover that detailed PowerPoint documents are their biggest enemy, because the details act as bait for nit-picking devil's advocates. Applying this same discipline to nascent opportunities in new spaces can be disastrous. Endless pre-meetings crowd out action-based learning. Then, the bar goes up.

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Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 16

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. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions.

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Stage-Gate Execution Innovation Management 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

As obvious as it might sound, the motivational power of progress is a big surprise to most managers. Managers may be unaware of how important progress is to human motivation, but it's one of the first secrets that every good video game designer learns. Truly effective managers do the same for their subordinates.

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Video Stage-Gate Motivation Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. The first stage is when it does what was being done before but better. We manage this transition very carefully. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates.

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Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

These customer experience management initiatives can be complex. To understand the work, first you need to understand an airport's business model: its real customer isn't travelers, but the airlines that rent the gates and terminals, much like a mall owner leases space to retailers.

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B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Start with the majority-minority markets and juxtapose them with local markets with high category development. Make it a management team exercise to have a new ethnic experience together, and then discuss how it could shape your innovation and portfolio. Here are a few practical steps to follow.

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Marketing Stage-Gate Industry Follow-up 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Without realizing it, even well-managed businesses versed in modern management practices can generate an environment that is hostile to innovation. Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks. How centralized is the Innovation Unit?

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 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. As a leader, commit yourself to improving your selection process.

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Conference Stage-Gate Proposal Ries 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. 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.

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Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. Modeling scientist: Direct improvements in the product or business from the code developed and shipped. The other creates output for machines to consume like models, training data, and algorithms.

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Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 15

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. As an example consider stage-gates, decision points at which time new products are reviewed before moving forward in the development process. Two to three are optimal.

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Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 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

APRIL 17, 2018

While we don’t know all the reasons this is important, founders have stronger strategies (which is why they became successful) and better intuition about how all the pieces work and fit together (because they’ve managed the company from the seed stage). Both of these lead to better management and higher RQ.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Every manager in the company should know the answer to that question. 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. Think speed not functionality.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 9

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.

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Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Moreover, many notable founders, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out of college. Employees there learn hard skills, such as project management, but also softer skills, such as politics and networking. Acknowledgements: Thank you to First Round Capital for their assistance in developing this article.

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Succession Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Due Diligence 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

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Build trustworthy networks , because developing trust in government will require collaboration across sectors. Make the exceptional routine , as the new era of public management requires the ability to deploy bridgebuilding across government. However, private investment excels in supporting early-stage innovations.

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Stage-Gate Innovation Learning-by-Doing Project 112