Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. Million; not big, but interesting.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

An engineer with a diemaker father who worked in a Pontiac plant, Barra is a 33-year company veteran. In her current job as executive vice president of global product development, she is responsible for the lineup of the future and the components that will make cars greener, safer, more user-friendly. This is a new GM.

Engineering 11

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a series of expensive problems with its Dreamliner development, its CEO, Jim McNerney , revised the company’s innovation ethos, declaring its era of boundary-pushing “moon shots” over. What would inspire the CFO or CEO to talk to investors about a major innovation underway? Take Boeing.

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CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 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.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

And yet most business schools and leadership development programs still focus on those. That didn’t stop CEO John Stumpf from blaming employees who “didn’t get it right,” or CFO John Shrewsberry from blaming “under performers.” Consider the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle disasters.

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Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Its founder, Hans Faust, couldn’t afford to hire developers at the outset, so he’d enlisted volunteers to help design, build, test, and debug the new kind of online game he wanted to bring to the world. You forgot one important figure, Klaus,” Rutger Ekberg, the head of product development, said with a smile. Everyone laughed.

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Company CFO Proposal Engineering 9

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.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses. Many such leaders are relatively young and highly sought after. Cut layers.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

Wozniak brought exceptional engineering chops. What made and still makes Apple products great — and what other tech firms can't seem to grasp — is that Jobs and Wozniak didn't apply their talents to make money or demonstrate engineering prowess. Customers should run the firm. Steve Jobs is above all an Apple customer.

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P&L Supply Chain Retail COO 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

in January 1968 as a young 22-year old with $8 in his pocket and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay. This requires total transparency in the way individuals are assessed, developed, and promoted. They have to be prepared to accept honest feedback on their development needs. How did this happen?

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Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Eventually her team ended up with a portfolio of investments that caught the attention of the CFO and CEO because some were bringing new technologies into the company’s supply chain, and others were hinting at new business models for engaging with customers. Naturally, Sheila was upset.

Career 10

Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” The CE is responsible for developing new business models and value propositions for the company’s future growth. You must develop a new process that measures whether you’re making progress in building new businesses. You persevere.

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Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

The COO''s newly developed strategy was very comprehensive: •Do better in every customer segment currently served plus add a couple of new ones. The COO, CFO, and the chief engineer are convinced that the strategy needs to be focused around success in the sweet spot. the family was asking.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

They held about 40 meetings with companies that had bought renewable energy and with big project developers. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. Get early buy-in. For Owens Corning, the locations matter.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). A strong value proposition and a first-class recruiting engine.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

We work really hard on developing smart solutions, only to see them fail because we don’t have enough juice in the organization. My peers are engineers and surveyors, and we seem to believe that “right is right&# and if the idea is “right&# that other people should go with it…after all, we know best!

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Chinese women in powerful business positions include Wei Sun Christianson , CEO of Morgan Stanley, China ; Mei Yan , Managing Director of MTV Networks, China; and Mary Ma , former CFO of Lenovo and managing director in global equity giant TPG, who recently started her own investment fund. The payoff?

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recommendation engines (or recommenders ) force organizations to fundamentally rethink how to get greater value from their data while creating greater value for their customers. ”We didn’t think a recommendation engine was necessary at the time,” said one of the company’s web developers.

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Engineering Company White Paper Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Robert Sutton, a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University and the author of Good Boss, Bad Boss and The No Asshole Rule , says this is part of the human condition. But by working together, you can understand him better and perhaps even develop some empathy. What the Experts Say. But proceed cautiously.

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Goleman How To Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. Consider how Nest is networking its thermostats, smoke alarms, and cameras to create home security solutions, or how Caterpillar and GE are each networking their equipment and engines to save millions in maintenance costs. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions. It does require that leaders reach across functional boundaries, but thats different than simply placing compensation and benefits under the CFO.

Charan 14

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Maybe, as a start, we ought to describe peopley stuff in more economic language, by putting it in some context that will help our CFO and engineering friends better understand how things relate to one another. It's when engineering doesn't deliver what marketing said the consumers want. Or: S = (PT) C.

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Succession CFO Collins Bottom-up 15