HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Productivity apps are in heaps and bounds on the market, but very few cater to the ever-evolving needs of the human resources departments. The app focuses on outbound hiring, and with the curated search engine tool, it matches a multitude of profiles as per the requirements of the company and offers the most eligible candidatures.

Productivity 101

Productivity Products Management Conference 101

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Chris Brady

JANUARY 20, 2011

Example: When I was but a wee engineer just cutting my teeth in the profession, I had the good fortune to be thrown in with several elderly gentlemen who were extremely accomplished in the field. These guys were so good at technical things they actually conducted races to see who could solve complex puzzles and riddles the quickest.

Travel 112

Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 112

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

During this week, a crew of volunteers from the Twilio engineering team leads five 2-hour sessions for the newest cohort of hires. The first three days are spent learning step by step how to build simple apps on the Twilio platform – a conference line, a voice recording, a text response. Yet, this is a rite of passage at Twilio.

Engineering 8

Engineering Bottom-up Finance Learning-by-Doing 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. They made calculators, personal computers, databases, search engines and payment processors. Design Conferences. Most of the big successes followed this pattern. The formula worked. But times change. Design is everywhere. Design thinking.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. They made calculators, personal computers, databases, search engines and payment processors. Design Conferences. Most of the big successes followed this pattern. The formula worked. But times change. Design is everywhere. Design thinking.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. On the conference call, Szkutak explained that significant capacity investments are being made in distribution centers so Amazon can continue to grow its core retail business.

Christensen 12

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. Transformers. Financiers.

Shaw 13

Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Worse still, not one of the company’s assorted products could begin to compete with Ford’s Model T on price or quality. Yet in little more than a decade, each GM product line was turning a profit, and the corporation as a whole had established itself as the world’s premier automaker and the nation’s largest single employer.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Finding talent and financing isn’t the only hurdle to overcome on the road to startup success; it’s the first of many. The fear that your products are inferior. The proliferation of startup conferences facilitates networking. The list goes on and on.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Finance Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

TED has its main conferences (TED in the US and TEDGlobal in Europe) where people with relatively big wallets gather once a year to hear smart people give short talks, creating "ideas worth spreading." In June 2009, they announced a program called TEDx that allow many to organize their own TED-inspired conference.

Marketing 17

Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

Take Philips Electronics with its lighting, medical equipment, and consumer electronics divisions; ThyssenKrupp with its steel, elevators, and engineering services units; or smaller companies such as Trinity Mirror, which offers newspapers, printing, and digital services.

Strategy 8

Strategy P&L Engineering Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. Also, today, 30% of new hires are non-Japanese, and 50% of new engineers are non-Japanese.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I That decision turned out to have serious consequences.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. The skills most frequently mentioned as crucial during early stages include product design and development, pitching, and assembling a founding team.

Engineering 13

Engineering Finance Survey Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. When that happens, innovating your products won’t help — you have to innovate your business model.

Innovation 21

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 21