Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

VJ, an engineer in India working on a development project, is trying to resolve technical issues within a software application. As an added bonus, it has become an incubator for thousands of talented minds to create, innovate, and engage in new initiatives that include future product and service development.

Globalization 9

Globalization Incubator Incentives Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". .* Kodak wasn't blind to this shift. It created a working prototype of a digital camera in 1975. Don't go it alone.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

To close this gap, leading businesses like Google are exploring scalable strategies that make UX relevant to engineers and MBAs across their organizations. This process has been incubated successfully at SAP, where teams have compressed the product development process into three months for some new releases.

Strategy 10

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method. .”

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

We organized these initiatives around small venture units, incubating them separately (and far away) from existing businesses. Second, we separated the ventures from existing business units so they could focus on disruptive innovations while the strategic business units focused on better engineering our existing product categories.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? ” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years.

Mentor 15

Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

The experience of the typical intrapreneur looks less like Spencer Silver, who developed the Post-It note while at 3M, and more like Steven Sasson, the engineer at Kodak who invented the portable digital camera. As is now well-known, instead of propelling Kodak into the future, the digital camera became a massive missed opportunity.

Incubator 8

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

A fully integrated Digital Tapestry enables them to be more innovative, because it allows them to collaborate, simulate, create, communicate, and incubate ideas. In this Denver facility, we outfit engineers and manufacturers in VR equipment and let them “step into” new spacecraft designs. Collaborate.

Operations 8

Operations Incubator Engineering Technology 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

Systems Engineer. DEADS: Data Engineer and Data Scientist. Machine Learning Engineer. This includes Big Data strategy (both internal structured and external unstructured data); identify data components, select analytics engines and all the system and data interactions. To: AI/Cognitive Era. Database Administrator (DBA).

Positioning 150

Positioning Company Engineering Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Yet while that kind of leadership is crucial, it’s the ability to tap the collective minds of the organization that drives the business.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team. Imagine, if you will, a car engine so woefully inefficient that only 13% of the gas it consumes actually combusts. They are frequently caught out by the future and seldom change in the absence of a crisis.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 7, 2015

In designing spacecraft, engineers try to avoid situations in which the failure of a single component would cause loss of the ship, crew, or mission, and the best collaborative solutions likewise should not contain single point failures or depend solely on a particular individual or organization to ensure success.

Power 100

Power Incubator Learning-by-Doing Goal 100