Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data. Who to hire.

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

The Kauffman Foundation reports that the median age of founders is 39 - right at the midpoint of a typical professional career - and 69% are 35 or older. Another study by Washington University professors of 86,000 science and engineering graduates showed that age was not a significant predictor of becoming an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Objective Career 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Never allow the organization to over-engineer the innovation process. As an example consider stage-gates, decision points at which time new products are reviewed before moving forward in the development process. There should be no elite privilege when it comes to innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8