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Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

Harvard Business Review

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. A preoccupation with benchmarking against other projects.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. Historical benchmarks are of limited value when a product has no antecedents, and it’s hard to pin down the future value of an idea that exists only as a concept. Granted, it is difficult to measure.