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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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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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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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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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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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2015

These organizations have developed strong transformation capability. 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.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates. Develop a learning mindset to embrace failure and discover new opportunities Given my scientific background, I’m sure it comes as no surprise that for the past 5 years, I’ve been experimenting with what and how I write for this blog.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 27, 2020

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 God has made promises for His church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. But there are tremendous opportunities being created and desperation is leading to innovation.

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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.

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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. You need to develop your strengths.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. Leaders must work to develop Shared Consciousness and Purpose to ensure the right people are in place and are poised to provide a broad spectrum of response options should the Future Picture interests ever be threatened. By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Remember the Alamo.

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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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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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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. Some of the most successful businessmen in recent history have developed on the advice of a mentor. Keep Your Customers Happy.

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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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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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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.” Another framework for developing a mission statement is to ask three questions: 1) What do we do really well as a company?

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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.”. Another framework for developing a mission statement is to ask three questions: 1) What do we do really well as a company?

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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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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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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Humans are one of the few mammals whose babies are not fully developed at birth. Yet, when we discuss the birth and development of innovations and companies, it’ [.]. Unlike horses, whales, etc., human babies can’t stand, walk, or forage on their own at birth.

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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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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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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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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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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

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."). Endless pre-meetings crowd out action-based learning. Then, the bar goes up.

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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

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

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.

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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. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates. I say this for two main reasons. That's what is happening now.

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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

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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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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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.

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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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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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