Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

Magazine which recognized me as one of the Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts , putting me alongside such leadership heavyweights as Sir Richard Branson, Vineet Nayar, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Peter F. Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates.

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Leadership How To Stage-Gate Learning-by-Doing 278

Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

Even the most basic items did not exist before someone (or ones) came up with an impression of a product or service that would be useful in some way. When you stop and think about it, the number of incredible products and services available today is truly amazing. This is the primary responsibility of product managers.

Strategy 100

Strategy Stage-Gate Products Productivity 100

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. It’s helpful to first understand the various stages involved in improving business processes. system to delivering the product via logistics operations, to collecting the cash from customers. In the U.S.,

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 284

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.

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Short-term Long-term Stage-Gate Mentor 63

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. This is a story about leaving “our lover”, the industry we know and seeking success in the unknown.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. They are decision scientists. They are modeling scientists.

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Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

The rest would be made up by new products and services (24%); entry into new geographies (17%); and appealing to new customer segments (14%). Indeed, only one firm was confident in its capacity to practice "entrepreneurial management" and "controlled risk-taking.". But there's an acquisition gap, too. That's terrific.

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Stage-Gate Report Project Uncertainty 22

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

JULY 5, 2011

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. Visible senior management involvement.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious. Outcomes of successful innovation projects, such as a product, service or research finding, often need varying types and degrees of support to transition to the next phase of development.

Health Care 14

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 14

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m not talking here about leaders with vague or feel-good principles like being open to new ideas; rather, those guided by a set of specific requirements, actions, and structures proven to drive innovation, which include the following: Personally stay out of creating new products and services. Find the truth.

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Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Products 10

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. They do, however, have to be managed intelligently. But investors — he didn’t have a problem with them at all.

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

I'm a product of a market like this. Our grocery stores have very different products than the ones on the mainland. It allows consumers to deconstruct benefits they like from products, borrow benefits from adjacent categories and then reassemble in ways they like better. Whites make up 26% of the population.)

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Marketing Stage-Gate Industry Follow-up 17

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. The reason: a fundamental flaw in the management process that is supposed to renew brand health. The blemish is the abdication of brand attention by top management. The CEO as Chief Brand Custodian.

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Brand CEO Stage-Gate SWOT 168

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

If an employee comes up with a great new product or a technical discovery during R&D, aren’t they likely to leave the company, either to found a startup or to join a competitor? times more R&D than small companies, but their R&D is 13% more productive — meaning large firms are the real engine of economic growth.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 14

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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Stage-Gate Finance Analysis Training 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. 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.

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 10

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

cycle of their organization, its service offerings and products, and the approach to the marketplace. Leadership must remain on one accord through a high level of trust, accountability and commitment in order to win the front and back gates of their desired outcomes (perspective). Remember the Alamo. By reforming his world?view,

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CEO Succession Tips How To 393

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions.

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 9

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. When you’re pouring every spare minute into growing your business, taking a break to visit the gym often feels counter-productive. Setting goals daily has allowed me to feel more in control of my life while boosting my productivity. Dan Miller of 48 Days. Brian Dodd.

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

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

An employee of Haier, the Chinese manufacturer, told us that CEO Zhang Ruimin once shut down production after he found minor dents and scratches on appliances that were coming off a manufacturing line. He instructed employees to take hammers in hand — not to fix the flaws but to destroy the imperfect products.

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Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. 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.

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Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

As obvious as it might sound, the motivational power of progress is a big surprise to most managers. Managers may be unaware of how important progress is to human motivation, but it's one of the first secrets that every good video game designer learns. Truly effective managers do the same for their subordinates.

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Video Stage-Gate Motivation Project 15

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. By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. And it’s not just your company.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Most customers are interested in your content first (how much you know about their pain points) before purchasing your products or services. 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.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It, too, was enthusiastically embraced by managers and policy makers, and was invoked to reshape practices in firms and government. Rational-experimental problem solving was built around a series of stages, each leading up to the identification of a solution.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

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. We keep sending our people to institutions of higher learning in the sciences, engineering, and management. Broadband access is really quite unique for a country at this stage of development.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 14