Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources they did not have. Both industrial, machine-like robots and digital, computerized robots have revolutionized the way companies operate.

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Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Previously I’ve written about how relational disconnection between NASA engineers and senior managers contributed to the fatal accidents of the space shuttles Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003. Connection makes us smarter, happier, more productive, and more resilient to cope with stress. These benefits add up to a powerful advantage.

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Self-aware Stress Environment Long-term 332

Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. We work closely with many leaders who are running functions or divisions in large organizations.

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Self-aware Leadership COO Influence 83

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

But as a company who also values innovation and “looking around the corner,” we are always challenging the status quo—so absolutely, there is always room for improvement! And as a company filled with analytical engineers, empirical evidence is a fantastic way to promote the best ideas!

Software 98

Software Engineering Learning-by-Doing Diversity 98

Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Throw in complex organizations operating in complex markets, and you’ve really got to marvel at how it all comes together every day. Ken Rubin, an agile leadership visionary, has a fantastic analogy that I refer to often to explain the concept. It’s that sense of meaning that inspires us to think of new, innovative ways to do the work.

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Ethics Engineering Efficiency Agility 370

Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

They create the openness, engagement, and collective thinking that drives innovation and greater business success. Overall the big trend is this: almost everything we’ve done traditionally in HR has to be adjusted (or re-engineered). The younger, more mobile, more agile workforce and workplace we now live in demands new approaches.

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Goal Wilde White Paper Management 100

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2017

Develop a Globalization Strategy Part of the agility for a company to stay strong globally is the makeup of their country investment. Most innovative and technologically superior products have the potential to become global if they are needed, are better than what exists, and will improve people’s lives.

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Globalization Budgeting Strategy Compliance 120

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 1, 2018

This is particularly true in today’s complex and uncertain operating environments in which a culture of solidarity and knowledge sharing become critical drivers of staying relevant. To this end, humor engineered by leaders can shape a culture of empathy and relationship satisfaction and be a foundation for greater alignment.

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Organization Succession CEO Emotional Intelligence 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

HR Digest

JULY 15, 2019

The incursion of AI and automation into the workplace is engineering a disruption that employers and employees are handling differently. With these changes, what determines an organization’s competence can only be assured by an agile culture; yet agility is not the only obligation for success. Support talent-inspired changes.

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Brand Agility Technology Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

The nature of the workforce is rapidly changing and this new wave of employees is not only getting accustomed to a mobile and agile workforce but are starting to actually expect it. Let’s take innovation, for instance. We’ve also been told that silos can stifle innovation and should be avoided at all costs.

Strategy 50

Strategy Tips Agility Globalization 50

Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

Without modernizing practices related to these five themes and 27 sub-themes that I identify in my book, technology and digital divisions of companies are likely to become the boat anchors, holding the ship that is their enterprise back rather than being the engine and rudder, steering toward safety and opportunity and away from danger.

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Company How To Core Competence Venture Capitalist 101

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author.

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Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? What can I do?”

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Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Agility Team How To Project 14

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Hong Kong Section was also a co-sponsor of the event. Exchanging ideas in the flagship Women In Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Conference 2021 The Women In Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Conference 2021 was sponsored by CMI – and was a huge success.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Two common company behaviors tend to undermine real action on these questions: Flog the dead horse: Teams in Western Europe and the United States focus on squeezing more growth out of the same products through the same channels to the same consumers — with no real innovation. As they think about Engine 2, companies face two questions.

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Engineering Company Resources Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. The goal was to make IBM more agile and able to predict — even prescribe — where IBM's markets would go. And they use online social collaboration and communications tools.

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Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. To avoid this roadblock, successful companies use a more agile strategy that relies on local solutions to capture value quickly, while gradually building the long-term IT and automation architecture. It was all reminiscent of 19 th century advertisements for cure-all patent medicines.

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Operations Lean Manufacturing Technology Software 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. Improvement and Innovation. Leadership.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

At a high level, a competency center is a collection of domain experts who are given a goal to improve agility, foster innovation, establish best practices, provide training (and mentoring), and be a communications engine. Competency centers can be established by any type of focus area and require a lead, members, and a sponsor.

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Training White Paper Agility Mentor 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

The developers then pass the releases to the operations group, where the software is tested for three weeks to make sure the complete system is stable, for a total cycle of nine weeks. This represents a truly disruptive management and operating model. As Singleton told me, “The technology world is a cult of innovation.

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Software Industry Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. In our work with dozens of large companies on growth and transformation strategies, we’ve found a set of principles and practices that create an operating system for growth. Test Like an Entrepreneur (Not an Engineer).

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Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? Six selected insights are presented here, tempered with our own experience in many years of consulting with global engineering initiatives.

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Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. Companies like Rolls Royce design and manufacture jet engines. The answer is “yes.”

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Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

” In other words, today’s innovators don’t “go global”—globality is baked into their origins. Innovation isn’t merely outsourced to low-cost providers, it’s globally networked between peers and partners. For Silicon Valley, however, that proportion rises to 45%. from 2012 to 2014.

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Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps. Whatever their approach, the providers shared a common goal of excellence and efficiency in patient care—and a willingness to innovate to get there.

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Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.” Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. What makes marketing creative?

Creativity 13

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. The designers were focused on creating better user experiences, while the engineers were focused on speed, quality, and efficiency. Insight Center.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.

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Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It came by great gas mileage on the back of a scam: The car’s supposedly low emissions were fraud — perpetrated by VW engineers who designed the car’s software to lower emissions during testing, only to let them bump back up in real life use. Now we know that vehicle wasn’t green. But it just hasn’t happened.

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PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S. No one will be able to afford to stand still.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10