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. We need a good operational definition of charisma. That aura, that confidence, that vibe.

Charisma 309

Charisma Welch Stage-Gate Self-aware 309

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

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. Set yourself some medium-term goals, and stick to them!

Short-term 63

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. Million; not big, but interesting.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

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

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 16

Stage-Gate PR CEO Brand 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 16

Stage-Gate PR CEO Brand 16

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

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. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.” The glacial pace at which banks have moved SME lending online has left them vulnerable.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

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

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

APRIL 26, 2011

That's exactly what Portuguese airport operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal did in its quest to attract more major airlines and connecting routes. These included wanting more control across the various stages of their journeys, and feeling an increased sense of Portuguese culture throughout the airport environment.

B2B 15

B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. following a traditional stage-gate process). The central Support Unit is typically a low budget, low staff corporate function in charge of developing guidelines and procedures to govern the innovation funnel (i.e.

Innovation 10

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Even more difficult is to build a business that requires capital out of the gate. However, if you need capital to validate, you are operating in a zone that will be full of very dark hours. But if you need funding in the seed stages, before validation, there is very little capital in the system.

Incubator 8

Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

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 15

Marketing Stage-Gate Industry Follow-up 15

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 12

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 12

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 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

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.

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

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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. One myth for me is that creating unique content for a matrix of each stage of the buying journey for each distinct customer segment is simply not sustainable for most companies.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.); Executives realized that to do this, they would need to reallocate some of the company’s innovation resources from late-stage product enhancements to early-stage product breakthroughs.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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. However, private investment excels in supporting early-stage innovations.

Stage-Gate 113

Stage-Gate Innovation Project Learning-by-Doing 113

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 11

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 11