HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2021

More than 400 engineers and other workers at Google and its parent company, Alphabet , have formed a union open to all employees. On Monday, the group announced the creation of the AWU with an op-ed in The New York Times , after years of employees protesting for better workplace inclusivity and ethics at the search engine.

Shaw 52

Shaw Telecommunications Engineering Ethics 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

For the past few decades, emerging technologies such as biotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and communications technologies have become central to the socioeconomic development of nations. These technologies improve productivity and facilitate better living standards when they penetrate into societies.

Information Technology 15

Information Technology Technology Information Trends 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Cybersecurity, information technology security or computer security is the process of the protection of computer systems, programs, and networks from digital attacks or the theft or from the damage of the hardware, software, electronic data or misdirection or disruption of the services they provide. Social engineering.

Tips 70

Tips Software Banking System 70

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Engineering Work Management. About StrategyDriven.

Wireless 58

Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In the early 1990s, executives and managers welcomed information technology — databases, PC workstations, and automated systems — into their offices. Managers noted historical trends and revised processes, and engineers developed code that was then baked into computing systems. times more likely to convert.

Process 8

Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. This is the first time within the NHS that designers, engineers and clinicians have been brought together to co-create.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. for leaders and 3.2%

Company 8

Company Operations Human Capital Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Network effects are the not-so-secret sauce profitably flavoring Amazon’s recommendation engines and Apple’s App Store. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "If Lowe's is spot-on in adding HR professionals to its process improvement teams.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Technology has tremendous potential to be the engine of increasing human, organizational, and economic prosperity. However, digital technology is not the true story. Fulfilling technology’s potential will require leaders to recreate the way their institutions operate in a world of digital ubiquity.

Management 12

Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. We think this is a bad idea. It takes time to discover, disambiguate, and deploy knowledge.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In the 1990s, Procter & Gamble’s Product Supply Organization kicked off a major Reliability Engineering program, much like the efficiency initiatives of companies such as Toyota. The process also includes a determination of how much of the activities are classified as capital expenditures versus ongoing operating expenses.

Discounted Cash Flow 8

Discounted Cash Flow P&L NPV EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies. When electricity initially replaced the steam engine, engineers just placed electric motors where the steam engine used to be — with limited productivity gains.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

They usually operate with clear metrics (such as profits, clicks, purchases) and can piece together a myriad of technical tricks to build very sophisticated models that drive performance. Hiring Information & technology' It’s important to get the right person for either job.

Incubator 10

Incubator Information Technology Metrics Analysis 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

It can be inside information about the company or its industry or something that might be unrelated but leads to the point you want to make. Check out the search engines for ‘little known facts about …’ or ‘trivia about …’ for ideas. Yet another good grabber is the startling fact.

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Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

It was the first computer to bring a graphical user interface (GUI) to market, meaning that people with no knowledge of text based-operating commands could finally navigate the world of personal computing. However, despite the fact that Apple brought it to the general public, the company didn't pioneer the technology.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0 The third major trend I see is the increasing need for speed in operations and improvement. Accelerating changes in technology, competition, regulation, and globalization demand that decisions get made faster at all levels. Process Strategy 2.0

Process 8

Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Toward this end, my colleagues and I at Boston University’s Center for Information and Systems Engineering have been striving to bring the power of machine-learning algorithms to this critical problem. In response, hospitals are increasingly making analytics and new technologies an integral part of hospital operations.

Health Care 11

Health Care System Technology Airlines 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The median age is 24, and local universities produce over 130,000 graduates in information technology and engineering each year. For example, American services marketplace Thumbtack leverages close to 1,000 home-based contractors in the Philippines to help with business operations.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

The Google case should motivate telecoms and global corporations to integrate privacy into their operational models, instead of treating them solely as issues of compliance. Reputation management companies, which work to bury search engine results, could also offer request services to individuals. Information & technology Innovation'

Innovation 8

Innovation Safe Harbor Compliance Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Selecting project managers.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

For the second, companies should set up and manage a "data factory," staffed by process engineers and others with deep technical skills who "get the job done"; a tight structure that promotes consistency, scale, and decreasing unit cost; a shorter-term focus; and a culture that values quality and revenue above all else.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Long-term Industry Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

GE is outfitting its core industrial products – from jet engines and gas turbines to CT/PET scanners – with sensors that monitor various parts of the machinery. Using advanced analytics, GE can provide real time information to improve efficiency, increase productivity, and schedule more effective preventive maintenance.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology. In the Air Force, it’s like changing an aircraft’s engine while it’s flying – no downtime, no interruption of service. Do we fund or not fund?

CIO 8

CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

When local and long distance telephone service operated as a regulated monopoly, for example, it was up to the government to set prices, approve the introduction of new services, ensure interchange, and subsidize access for high-cost rural and low-income consumers. Information & technology Innovation Internet'

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

.” Studying manufacturers that were releasing successful innovations far faster than competitors, the authors identified a team-oriented approach that changed the design and development process for products such as copiers at Fuji-Xerox, automobile engines at Honda, and cameras at Canon.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Android is a fragmented mobile operating system. Sessions on protecting corporate data and thwarting social engineering efforts could be useful. Educating upper management is a different task for information technology executives. Securing mobile devices is tricky.

Chief Information Officer 8

Chief Information Officer Wireless Download Education 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Perhaps the prediction and explanation of an engineer who is proud to have improved a piece of the variable in question. “We Algorithms only operate on the inputs they’re provided. Information & technology Technology' 2014 is the new normal. We got a one-time boost because we turbocharged the knurdle valve.”

Tacit Knowledge 10

Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

s New Manufacturing Industry Looks Like (The Washington Post) The Engineering of the Chain Restaurant Menu (The Atlantic) Journalism Start-Ups Aren''t a Revolution If They''re Filled With All These White Men (The Guardian). Crisis management Information & technology Technology'

McGregor 8

McGregor Information Technology Crisis Management COO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

It was the first computer to bring a graphical user interface (GUI) to market, meaning that people with no knowledge of text based-operating commands could finally navigate the world of personal computing. However, despite the fact that Apple brought it to the general public, the company didn't pioneer the technology.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 8