Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Once upon a time, before the era of big data analytics, corporations had similarly routine business growth issues and threats: i.e.: after years of being the market leader in a specific product category, they quickly begin to lose market share, they wanted to introduce their product into a new market. Product Intelligence: What Is It?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. It’s helpful to first understand the various stages involved in improving business processes. Synchronize siloed processes : Imagine if ATC activities were standard but siloed off from other aviation processes, such as airport gate management.

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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. Think About Finances. Bill Gates had Buffet , and Mark Zuckerberg had Steve Jobs. Keep Your Customers Happy.

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Short-term Long-term Stage-Gate Mentor 63

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. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

The two were sitting on stage at Radio City Music Hall chatting about business-y stuff when the retired GE CEO made the suggestion, and I was a little surprised when the retired IBM CEO didn’t dismiss it out of hand. Communication Finance Getting buy-in'

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 13

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. Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

For icons such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, so goes the lore, finishing a bachelor’s degree would have only stifled the creativity that fueled their companies to stratospheric success. Successfully commercializing a product depends upon clean and clear lines of intellectual property ownership.

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