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. This raises an interesting question.

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Education Innovation Stage-Gate Software 15

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Assess if Your Organization Is Living Its Purpose The final stage to building corporate purpose is to assess how well your organization is living it.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. The final stage to building corporate purpose is to assess how well your organization is living it. Customer Need As a Catalyst For Purpose.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

First, the teams behind winning apps tend to be composed of the organizations' best techno-marketing talent, people with deep understanding of social media. 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.

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Stage-Gate Airlines Brand Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.”

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. Although the setting was law firms, rather than technology firms, all the assets in those firms reside in human capital.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

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Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing.

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

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

MAY 3, 2016

The data also shows that younger founders and founders with prestigious educational backgrounds or prior experience in large technology companies tend to be more successful. Good investments are increasingly coming from burgeoning technology centers in Texas and North Carolina. Of course, some caveats are in order.

Succession 8

Succession Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

The seven roles for CIUs are: designing shelter for innovation; supporting best practices and methods; developing skills; supporting business unit initiatives; identifying new market spaces; facilitating ideas generation; and directing seed funding. following a traditional stage-gate process).

Innovation 10

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Companies like Salesforce.com, Philips, and Oracle have appointed chief customer officers, while many other B2B players have embarked on enterprise-wide efforts to improve their marketing, sales, and support interactions. These customer experience management initiatives can be complex.

B2B 15

B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

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 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 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. That effort will get technology into people''s hands sooner — and accelerate the speed at which the business accrues benefits from IT. IT management Information & technology Strategy'

CIO 8

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

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 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

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. Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

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 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 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. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

Health Care 11

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

as the most attractive market worldwide for renewable energy investment, this year downgraded it to third , behind China and India. ” The Brookings report’s most peculiar finding is that VC investment in cleantech has shifted toward later-stage deals. First, another recent Brookings analysis found that U.S.

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9

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?

Porter 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

In practice, a start-up is in its early stages is not making a profit and is therefore not paying income tax — making it ineligible to use the R&D tax credit under current law. Supporting small incremental steps — the reality of innovation and technological change — are what the R&D tax credit is about.

Stage-Gate 15

Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

In practice, a start-up is in its early stages is not making a profit and is therefore not paying income tax — making it ineligible to use the R&D tax credit under current law. Supporting small incremental steps — the reality of innovation and technological change — are what the R&D tax credit is about.

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Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 8