The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 11, 2021

After all, hugely successful people, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg famously didn’t finish college before building their hugely successful businesses. Tamo Junto are intervening at the very early stage of this process, and often need to forment the notion of oneself as an entrepreneur in the first place.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Crisis Learning-by-Doing 124

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2023

And, if we're Settling, right out of the gate we know we won't be striving to reach our communication potential in any way. Question: At what point or stage in a person's career is your book most helpful and why?

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Stage-Gate Open-book How To Seminar 65

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2015

Given organizational matrices, work complexities, and corporate politics, the transformation team relies heavily on leadership traits to secure support, overcome barriers, resolve escalated issues and manage risks across organizational divisions, functions, and levels.

Leadership 120

Leadership Stage-Gate Critical Success Factor Objective 120

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

So, how would you prepare for a stage gate meeting that includes a "Go/No-Go" decision on continuing to develop a specific product? Just as crucial is the methodology- asking the right questions from the outset that are relevant to the gate decision. He manages strategic accounts and oversees Signals’s partnership program.

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Stage-Gate Products Productivity Innovation 128

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

After the stint at Bristol-Myers, I moved on to Beecham Products (now GlaxoSmithKline) as Brand Manager of Brylcreem Hairdressing, Macleans Toothpaste and Silvikrin Shampoo. Once a band has lost its luster and has fallen from the top 3 or 4 in its category, the opportunity for a successful re-stage is limited. Now I ask you.

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Brand CEO Stage-Gate Marketing 170

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 14, 2019

Bill Gates and Paul Allen shared a passion for computers and technology, and Microsoft is the result of their work. While passion may be needed to get a business idea off the ground, there are several other aspects of a business that needs to be managed well for it to succeed. Project Management Software.

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Software Stage-Gate Proposal Document 51

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Krames: While I was writing my book on Pope Francis, I asked over 200 people who they felt was the most effective leader on the world stage today. He is the CEO and president of JK Literary Services, a publishing & literary agency that specializes in leadership, management, and other business-related works. Nothing crickets!

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Stage-Gate Open-book Welch Magazine 238

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

When I was a young product manager back in the ’70s, the only people I could talk to about brands were my colleagues in the marketing department and the advertising agency. Now my accountant, my lawyer, my portfolio manager and even my neighbour talk to me about brands. Did you like this? Share it: Tweet. About John.

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Magazine Brand Article Marketing 100

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

After the stint at Bristol-Myers, I moved on to Beecham Products (now GlaxoSmithKline) as Brand Manager of Brylcreem Hairdressing, Macleans Toothpaste and Silvikrin Shampoo. Once a band has lost its luster and has fallen from the top 3 or 4 in its category, the opportunity for a successful re-stage is limited. Now I ask you.

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Brand CEO Stage-Gate Marketing 131

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Once the product-development stage concludes, a fancy marketing campaign is used to glamorize the team’s hard work, labor, and perseverance, ready to compete against other products of the same league. Building a new product is a daunting task that requires the collaborative efforts of many people. Pick a date.

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Products Productivity Planning Stage-Gate 79

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.

Leadership 278

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

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

All of these factors can impact your new business’s bottom line, and you don’t want to enter into an unprofitable business from the start because you overlooked an important question or two in the preliminary stages. You want to ensure you’re coming out of the gate swinging in order for your new company to be a success.

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Stage-Gate Real Estate PR Brand 50

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

Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

This is the primary responsibility of product managers. She’s accomplished this through, among other things, focusing on product management: Bartz transformed Autodesk through a series of smart acquisitions and by encouraging new product development. The development of ideas is not an easy undertaking.

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Strategy Stage-Gate Products Productivity 100

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

When they appear on stage or in a meeting, the electricity is palpable. A wonderful, special gift, much like artistic, athletic, or musical ones that put those lucky enough to have it a notch ahead of the rest of us at the starting gate. The real tasks of management are left to technocrats in sub-governmental and managerial units.

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Charisma Welch Stage-Gate Self-aware 309

Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

As a leader, you are always on stage. How about that issue of stage presence? First, he encourages bosses to remember the toxic tandem – that your team is watching you very closely and that it’s really important that you be aware that they’re watching you. Maybe Mark Hurd forgot about that.  

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Stage-Gate Letter Blog Executive Coaching 175

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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Stage-Gate Kaplan Intangible Assets Competitive Advantage 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

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). Exit your past, empower your future and allow your greatness to assist you in the conquering of new states through humility. Remember the Alamo. On to Iwo Jima.

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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 8

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.

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Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

You see, before anything made it onto the agenda of the top management's biweekly meeting, it was vetted. The idea generator had to show the idea to their line manager. Another approach is to document different criteria for early-stage ideas. The company, it turned out, had a deep case of iteration-itis. And screened.

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Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Idea Generation Document 15

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

The challenges of urban K-12 education in the United States, and indeed globally, are at a crisis stage. Littered among the failed endeavors are a few real companies, such as SchoolNet, which has installed Instructional Management Systems in one third of the large urban school districts across the United States. How do we get it right?

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Education Innovation Stage-Gate Software 15

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. Visible senior management involvement. So Stage-Gate models can unintentionally kill potentially big ideas.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

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 ).

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Stage-Gate PR CEO Brand 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

Second, they take a few basic ingredients — brand, marketing, technology, and service — and combine them in just the right ways over the course of five stages. In each stage, they ask themselves what gaps need to be filled. Stage 1: Is there a recognition gap? Stage 2: Is there a brand-personalization gap?

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Stage-Gate Airlines Brand Loyalty 15

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 ).

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Stage-Gate PR CEO Brand 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Most recognized the importance of top management support, project management expertise, identifying unmet customer needs, and understanding new segments in emerging economies, and most said they didn't perform as well as they needed to in these areas. The responding firms' lowest-rated capabilities were in managing merger integrations.

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Stage-Gate Report Project Uncertainty 22

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

Another example: After a Microsoft employee’s young son had reached his lifetime medical coverage for leukemia, the employee sent an email to Bill Gates, who was CEO at the time. When the employee left Gates’s office, his son had insurance coverage.

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Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

In contrast, my client, the CEO of a new biotech company walks on stage, rolls up his shirt sleeve, and stops at the center of the stage. When asked how he managed to write such gripping horror novels, Stephen King once responded, "I cut out the boring stuff," and so can you. He raises his bare forearm, pointing at a patch.

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Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Reis Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

Managers working on ideas discover that detailed PowerPoint documents are their biggest enemy, because the details act as bait for nit-picking devil's advocates. Applying this same discipline to nascent opportunities in new spaces can be disastrous. Endless pre-meetings crowd out action-based learning.

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Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

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 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).

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The first stage is when it does what was being done before but better. We manage this transition very carefully. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates. While at Davos, I was fortunate to attend an amazing panel — my favorite of the conference — with a murderer's row of speakers.

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Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

In my book, Mastering the VC Game , I describe a metaphor for the three stages of a start-up: the jungle, the dirt road and the highway. In the earliest stages of a venture - the jungle - there are no clear paths available and the skills required are to thrive in the midst of the chaos. Seeking fun can transcend all other factors.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Objective Career 17

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 9

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