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.

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Stage-Gate Products Productivity Innovation 128

Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models. People who view the world differently. Are you one?

Innovation 140

Innovation Stage-Gate Blanchard Social Capital 140

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 9, 2011

Leadership. by John • May 10, 2011 • Life , Marketing • 1 Comment. He also knows that current Prostate Cancer treatments post a success rate of over 90% when caught in the early stages. Leadership. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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Stage-Gate Brand CEO Human Resources 100

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. Maybe Mark Hurd forgot about that.  

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Stage-Gate Letter Blog Executive Coaching 175

Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

Filed under: Leadership , Knowledge , Market-driven , Innovation , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | strategy , customer focus , products , services , Carol Bartz , Yahoo! She has a tremendous task ahead to realign Yahoo’s products to the market. This is the new corporate strategy for Yahoo.

Strategy 100

Strategy Stage-Gate Products Productivity 100

Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models. People who view the world differently. Are you one?

Innovation 91

Innovation Stage-Gate Blanchard Social Capital 91

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

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Succession 316

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

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. But without effective leadership, corporate purpose feels abstract and disconnected from an employee’s day-to-day job.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. But without effective leadership, corporate purpose feels abstract and disconnected from an employee’s day-to-day job.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenges of urban K-12 education in the United States, and indeed globally, are at a crisis stage. presidential administrations.

Education 16

Education Innovation Stage-Gate Software 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. Finally, the firms were asked about the leadership practices that we know are associated with effective management of growth. But there's an acquisition gap, too.

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Stage-Gate Report Project Uncertainty 22

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate. Yes, Steve Jobs actually unveiled a leather iPod pouch on stage. There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. Volatile stock: In 2008, under Jobs, the stock price dropped by more than 50%. That was an underwhelming day. Amazon's price-to-earnings ratio is now 2,767.

Marketing 15

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 15

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. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

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. I’d be interested, Palmisano replied, but only “if Bill took the company private.”. Are today’s investors really that horrible?

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The bad news is that the job market is really tight, and it’s preventing us from hiring the conceptual designers we need.” An independent steering committee’s first “gate” review of the project, at the end of the conceptual-design stage, had been scheduled for Week 15; she postpones it to Week 33. What went wrong?

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Execution Innovation Management 9

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Decision scientist: Which content to license, which sales lead to follow, which medicine is less likely to cause an allergic reaction, which webpage design will lead to more engagement or more purchases, which marketing email will yield higher revenue, which specific part of a product user experience is suboptimal and needs attention.

Engineering 15

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. The most widely used metric among our respondents, for instance, was revenue being generated by new products or services over the course of their first few years in the market. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate. A bonus result: IT leaders have a better sense of what makes the business tick, and members of the executive leadership team have a better sense of when and how to make IT investments that matter.

CIO 9

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The same could well be said of Bill Gates, who has left mere connectivity behind in his quest to eradicate major human diseases. At some point in the future, however, as it moves more assuredly onto the global stage, China will need both a new generation of dreamers and new dreams, especially in business.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 10

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious.

Health Care 14

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair. In these cases Rwanda had eroded assets, but there was a foundation and a proof point, a market test that these areas could be successful and they could be competitive. How do we upgrade? Kagame: Right.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 14