Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

In premodern times, as the great cathedrals of Europe were constructed, the master builder held all of the necessary knowledge in his head and directed huge teams, but the projects were not collaborative. Today, complex large structures involve a team of architects, engineers and others who work together in constant communication.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

There is one best way to get big projects done. The goal is create a common platform, “an open ecosystem for the open road,” the alliance website proclaims. With a similar goal, the U.S. Those left out of that early process delayed the project for years. These coalitions should be broad and inclusive.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

When organizations lack a formal innovation pipeline process, project approvals tend to be based on who has the best demo or slides, or who lobbies the hardest. This prioritization process has to start before any new idea reaches engineering. Most importantly, minimal viable products and working prototypes will have been tested.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

We have written here about our project collecting daily work dairies from over 200 people to understand the effect of everyday events inside organizations on employee inner work life — emotions, perceptions, and motivations. This includes getting buy-in toward a common goal. Answer: Collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

There is a lot of taxonomy and local knowledge that needs to be incorporated into the AI system —similar to the old “knowledge engineering” activity for expert systems. There are several domains and business problems for which the requisite knowledge engineering is available. Integration Time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

While there have long been voices supporting renewable energy in the Gulf, and solar generation projects elsewhere have now demonstrated their efficacy and reliability (reducing the technological risk), major projects have not been undertaken in the region — and those smaller ones that have contain little local content.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Their process — having a big goal, learning from the past, looking at the whole picture to find and prioritize opportunities, then refining key aspects of the space flight model to achieve their objective — is an approach that can make any organization more creative about cutting costs. They think big.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. According to Prasad Setty, Director of People Analytics at Google, their goal is to have all people decisions driven by data. Finance Human resources'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The good news is that an increasing number of cities have made commitments to aggressive climate and sustainability goals , a trend we anticipate accelerating following the recent UN agreement in Paris. Fast (a project lasting less than a year), Capital-light (or better yet, funded by low-cost capital provided by a third party).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

In stark contrast, at a disruptive organization like Google, innovation is built into jobs through " 20% time " projects — engineers are expected to spend 20% of their time on projects that are creating and testing new ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And a quarter of companies, according to the same survey, confess that not one of their new offerings met its profitability goals. When there are lots of companies whose goals are to go for high [sales] volume and high market share, that creates a price war. 72% of all new products don’t meet their revenue targets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

If businesses in China can import capital equipment, secure accounting and consulting services, hire the most efficient workers in the country, and secure financing for any project, how then will you compete? But in rich countries, that goal seems to be pursued narrowly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

Albert DiBernardo, who is now the head of strategy and development for a major engineering firm, told his board three years ago that he’d be retiring at age 65, and in his performance review last year set a specific departure date: December 31, 2017. that your retirement and new career might entail. Do a skills analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

A forecast issued late in the year by The Chronicle on Philanthropy projected their collective growth at just 1 percent. Some seek stricter accounting of ROI based on objectively measurable goals and achievements. An engineer, he says, because engineers help other people solve problems.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. Google your name periodically. Be willing to be scattered.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis began to work on the issue as a side project. Through sheer force of will (her passion was contagious and her research was solid) she enlisted 20 technical experts at the company, including a number of engineers who worked on their own time to help her advance the idea. It lit a fire under her.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For example, in the Twin Cities, a diverse group of policymakers, corporations, foundations, and community organizations have come together to link and integrate previously disconnected efforts around transit planning and engineering, land use planning, affordable housing, workforce development, and economic development.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Rather than a funding gap, there is a bankable projects gap : the projects themselves are not attractive to investors. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). How do they meet deadlines, initiate projects and offer ideas beyond the obvious? Demand that consultants of seniority staff the project.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

This friend also studied engineering in college and knows how to code. Project this image of the feminine ideal into the world of investing and the only "socially acceptable" roles for women are limited — perhaps doing due diligence as a "helper" or writing a check as a donor. Some of the dreams I finance are close to home.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced. ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. select a project team with the right skill sets. Gain senior leadership support.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

In venture capital-financed, high-growth technology startups, only 9% of entrepreneurs are women. Of course, VC-financed tech startups are different from the general workforce. Tech startups imply a science and engineering focus, two fields that are known to be less popular with women. That’s really low.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

The research project goals were to understand how customers perceive the salespeople they meet with, explore the circumstances that determine which vendor is selected, and learn how different company departments and vertical industries make buying decisions. This suggests that other factors separate the winner from the losers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example. The educational concepts developed in that program have since evolved into a larger learning program called EYP University, which provides an average of 20 courses a year for architects, engineers, and a combination of the two.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

It’s more than open office plans and Ping-Pong tables — it’s a culture where teams self-organize; people from various functions come together to work on specific projects by habit, not by exception; and good ideas gain momentum organically by attracting talent from around the business. Think like engineers and customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

How students and teachers at the K-12 level are incentivized tends to focus on clear goals met through individual knowledge and expertise, neither of which are realistic for the contemporary workplace. Don't segregate engineering from marketing, HR from finance, and so on. Mix up disciplines.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

“You might move from product to engineering to ops.” Observation will “give you a better data set,” but if possible, you might also “do a project with the startup on the side” before you formally commit. He thought about his previous experience with products, projects, and companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Compared to 18 months ago, a strong majority of workers (61%) are collaborating on more projects outside their immediate or nominal work group; that's more than three and a half times as many as those that are not (17%). Consider how an engineer in our study must tap networks each time she develops a new research proposal for grant funding.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. And maybe its too busy. Lets face it. From why, move to "what."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Crucially, he concludes that our unconscious mental frames “shape the goals we seek, the plans we make, the way we act, and what counts as a good or bad outcome of our actions.” Meanwhile, Al Gore’s Generation Foundation sees sustainability as the new engine of economic growth. The Moral Frame.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The number of PhDs in science and engineering graduating each year has grown dramatically and is now just behind that of the United States. Thus, technological innovation in these sectors tends to be financed by the government and carried out within government or quasi-government laboratories. ” But what’s the effect?

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares). Another piece of advice is to set measurable goals. Jennifer Radke Understand the needs and goals of your audience, not the business goals. Just do it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. people, it could compensate for its projected 11 million drop in working-age population in 2025. position.

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