Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Last Friday, Hewlett Packard announced that its CEO, Mark Hurd, had resigned after an internal investigation showed that he had submitted false expense reports related to time that he spent with a female marketing consultant to the company. As a leader, you are always on stage. How about that issue of stage presence?

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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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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. Now that the product is about to debut, a creative team put their heads together to create effective marketing campaigns.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. The other one is mental: I always believe “everyone is a leader and a leader grows another leader” I develop others by sharing a lot of ideas. Keep moving!

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In some of these markets, minorities are in fact the majority. I'm a product of a market like this. While political operatives have their own lessons to learn from the 2012 electoral results, marketers need to utilize some of the same strategies Obama used to win a second term — particularly in his appeal to minorities.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. 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.” Authenticity: Is it true to who we are as an organization?

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. 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.”. Authenticity: Is it true to who we are as an organization? .

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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. The companies did reasonably well on making decisions using a formal process and managing projects using a disciplined approach (such as the stage/gate methodology).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

What puts those companies ahead is their effective use of both art and science in app development. First, the teams behind winning apps tend to be composed of the organizations' best techno-marketing talent, people with deep understanding of social media. In each stage, they ask themselves what gaps need to be filled.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. Confidence is the #1, must have for everyone's development plans.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

The general way around this problem seems simple enough — have a process by which you evaluate ideas in different ways at different stages of development (most call this a "stage-gate process."). This kind of process can help successfully move an idea from a Post-It note to the market. Then, the bar goes up.

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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. The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Companies like Salesforce.com, Philips, and Oracle have appointed chief customer officers, while many other B2B players have embarked on enterprise-wide efforts to improve their marketing, sales, and support interactions. These customer experience management initiatives can be complex.

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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. The bad news is that the job market is really tight, and it’s preventing us from hiring the conceptual designers we need.” It’s nose-to-the-grindstone time!”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks. The central Support Unit is typically a low budget, low staff corporate function in charge of developing guidelines and procedures to govern the innovation funnel (i.e.

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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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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. The Indian market is a slow adopter of new technologies.

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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 some examples? This includes tools for data lineage and data security. Who to hire.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Small companies have to swing for the fences to attract market share from large companies, and home runs attract attention. It is well-known that Bill Gates didn’t develop DOS — he bought it for $50,000 from Seattle Computer Co. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible.

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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. Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next.

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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. How do we upgrade?

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

For this analysis, performance refers to the change in market valuation between the initial First Round investment and the end of 2014.) Moreover, many notable founders, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out of college. First Round looked at the impact of alma mater on company performance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. In our experience, most leadership development programs give scant attention to these innovation-enabling attitudes and behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. Then, both approaches move toward developing a theory about how to solve the problem or design challenge.

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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. ” is not always evident. Recommendations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

That trend is more than five years old, but it’s particularly notable given two other developments. as the most attractive market worldwide for renewable energy investment, this year downgraded it to third , behind China and India. .” First, another recent Brookings analysis found that U.S. ’s drop in its rankings.

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