CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. 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.”

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. 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.”.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

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. Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector. Confidence is the #1, must have for everyone's development plans.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

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. Stage 1: Is there a recognition gap?

Stage-Gate 15

Stage-Gate Airlines Brand Loyalty 15

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.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 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. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates. I say this for two main reasons. That's what is happening now.

Education 15

Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 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 15

Banking Credit Scoring Stage-Gate Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. Although the setting was law firms, rather than technology firms, all the assets in those firms reside in human capital.

Long-term 14

Long-term Innovation Technology Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

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. The primary research also identified six underlying passenger needs and desires.

B2B 15

B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

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.

Innovation 14

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 14

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.

Company 10

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

Incubator 10

Incubator Stage-Gate How To Venture Capitalist 10

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.

CIO 9

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 9

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.

Engineering 15

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 15

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.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The data also shows that younger founders and founders with prestigious educational backgrounds or prior experience in large technology companies tend to be more successful. Good investments are increasingly coming from burgeoning technology centers in Texas and North Carolina. Of course, some caveats are in order.

Succession 8

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. Insight Center.

Health Care 14

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.

Porter 14

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

That trend is more than five years old, but it’s particularly notable given two other developments. ” The Brookings report’s most peculiar finding is that VC investment in cleantech has shifted toward later-stage deals. First, another recent Brookings analysis found that U.S. But the bigger problem is in Washington.

Stage-Gate 12

Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 12