Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Here’s a guide to managing a rapidly expanding business…. 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. Bill Gates had Buffet , and Mark Zuckerberg had Steve Jobs.

Short-term 63

Short-term Long-term Stage-Gate Mentor 63

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. Dan Miller of 48 Days. What is that!?” As a man thinketh, right? I could breathe.

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 16

Process Stage-Gate Innovation Net Present Value 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Of course, McCain's selection of Palin also changed the conversation; but what initially looked like an inspired decision quickly led to recriminations as Palin revealed herself to be unprepared for the national stage (witness her infamous Katie Couric interview ).

Stage-Gate 19

Stage-Gate PR CEO Brand 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Of course, McCain's selection of Palin also changed the conversation; but what initially looked like an inspired decision quickly led to recriminations as Palin revealed herself to be unprepared for the national stage (witness her infamous Katie Couric interview ).

Stage-Gate 18

Stage-Gate PR CEO Brand 18

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

These customer experience management initiatives can be complex. That's exactly what Portuguese airport operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal did in its quest to attract more major airlines and connecting routes. The primary research also identified six underlying passenger needs and desires.

B2B 15

B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

While political operatives have their own lessons to learn from the 2012 electoral results, marketers need to utilize some of the same strategies Obama used to win a second term — particularly in his appeal to minorities. African Americans, Latinos and younger consumers prefer sweeter flavors and products.

Marketing 16

Marketing Stage-Gate Industry Follow-up 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data. They are modeling scientists.

Engineering 15

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Without realizing it, even well-managed businesses versed in modern management practices can generate an environment that is hostile to innovation. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. following a traditional stage-gate process).

Innovation 14

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Every manager in the company should know the answer to that question. 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.

CIO 9

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

While we don’t know all the reasons this is important, founders have stronger strategies (which is why they became successful) and better intuition about how all the pieces work and fit together (because they’ve managed the company from the seed stage). Both of these lead to better management and higher RQ.

Long-term 14

Long-term Innovation Technology Industry 14

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

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 10

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 10

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.

Project 8

Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

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 14

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 14

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Make the exceptional routine , as the new era of public management requires the ability to deploy bridgebuilding across government. They highlight the success of Operation Warp Speed—a notable public-private collaboration that yielded tangible and significant results, with the development and distribution of vaccines.

Stage-Gate 112

Stage-Gate Innovation Learning-by-Doing Project 112