Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

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Succession 316

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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions.

Process 15

Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In larger and more sophisticated data operations, more fine-grained roles are necessary. Here are five key areas that contribute to data science operations. In larger operations, each may be a team unto itself. In small organizations, one person will do several of these things. e.g. running Kafka and a Hadoop cluster.

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

They may be flesh and blood to the senior team and the assistants in the C-suite, but to people in outer orbits, from operational departments to business units, they are imaginary constructs. When the employee left Gates’s office, his son had insurance coverage. They’re mental images.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate. Yes, Steve Jobs actually unveiled a leather iPod pouch on stage. Volatile stock: In 2008, under Jobs, the stock price dropped by more than 50%. No advertising innovation: The "I'm a Mac/"I'm a PC" campaign ran for three and a half years without a refresh. That was an underwhelming day.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate. For example, at Tetra Pak , the Swiss packaging company, the role of IT is to minimize the cost of business operations and facilitate global growth. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

CIO 8

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

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. For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary. What all of these entrepreneurs have in common is that they are dreaming big — much bigger than the rest of us.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Leadership: the percentage of executive time that gets devoted to mentor­ing innovation projects, and 360-degree survey results that reveal the extent to which execu­tives are exhibiting pro-innovation behaviors. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.);

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10