Engineering Hammer Innovation Operations 
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. Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. Similarly, scholars in the U.S. As the U.S.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 7, 2016
The geofilters combined amusing visuals and messages with the web address of Snapchat’s job page, all in the hope that a Twitter engineer taking a quick Snapchat break might come across the targeted “Fly Higher!” Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 14, 2016
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. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 27, 2015
Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.
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