Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We base this claim about HR’s digital skills gap on the results of our latest global leadership survey. Co-produced by our three organizations, the survey gauged nearly 28,000 business leaders across industries about the state and trajectory of leadership. Implement leadership planning models.

Skills 13

Skills Survey Technology Strategic Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Classic leadership lessons apply. Consider new software for cars. Over a billion cars currently are on the road worldwide and a billion mobile devices use Android software, but these converging means of transportation and communication are barely connected. Engineering innovations lowered the cost. Enter a coalition.

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Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software. Audit software and human monitors were soon installed to assure compliance. That’s hard.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.

Metrics 13

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Like its competitors, the company uses algorithms and software to manage investors’ portfolios automatically but then adds a human touch: a team of advisors available by phone or video chat to assist clients with their investments, answer questions, and offer emotional support when the market terrain gets rocky.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

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.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Translation software? That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? 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

AUGUST 2, 2018

Joel Hendley, the Director of Engineering, North America, for Liferay, the California-based software company, speaks from personal experience when he says that “making a significant change” is not always the answer to “weathering mid-career anxiety” and discontent. Finances were a consideration.

Career 14

Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Over the last decade, most companies’ digital agendas have focused largely on technology — moving to cloud-based software, modernizing IT infrastructures, adding digital channels, and digitizing business processes. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

“This was a couple of rogue software engineers who put this in for whatever reason.” Put aside for the moment what this testimony implies about the auto giant’s purported culture of engineering excellence. 21st-century planes don’t fly and cars don’t drive without software. Oh those rogues!

Engineering 8

Engineering Management Software Review 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 376

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

Only the technically naive and economically inept see code as a software deliverable that programmers should produce on time, on budget and on spec. But limiting this 100X conversation to software productivity would be a mistake. Now picture an individual fluent in Cantonese who not only is a talented engineer but a gifted facilitator.

Engineering 14

Engineering Taylorism Taylor Productivity 14

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. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

Organization 8

Organization Development Mentor Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. Financed by VC firms. Unicorns are: Small in size. Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

“You might move from product to engineering to ops.” You also need to get to know the leadership, adds Gulati. “I was quite happy running a marketing organization within a larger software company,” Steve recalls. He also considered the impact a change might have on his family and its finances.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S. born engineers. “But more engineers is a good thing. But in April, just after U.S.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9