Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The so-called "super committee" — the special team of twelve U.S. So if the supercommitee's goal was so compelling, why did the committee fail? That fact was in plain sight with the super committee. Re-engineer incentives. Perhaps real collaboration was an intractable problem in the super committee in Washington.

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Committee Insurance Incentives Banking 14

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 24, 2013

Yes, stakeholder input is good, but do we form committees and ask for everyone''s opinions when we design bridges, in order to get "buy-in"? In most cases, no, we turn to civil engineers. When it comes to how to develop leaders, everybody has an opinion.

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Leadership Development Development How To Leadership 272

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2015

The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has announced the 2015 Deming Prize winners. One company was awarded the Deming Grand Prize this year: National Engineering Industries Limited (India). 3 years after a company has received the Deming Prize they may apply to the top prize.

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Deming TQM Committee Engineering 28

leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Throughout my career as a Principal engineer at Intel, I’ve repeatedly made a point to do that, and believe me, it wasn’t easy. Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. Attend professional conferences.

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Company Conference Cooper How To 137

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

When I joined Instagram in 2015 as head of engineering, the company had been part of Facebook for three years. It had 115 engineers, but we would soon scale to 300, and later grow to over 400 in 2017. The engineering department needed better organization and management, and its employees were craving more career development.

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Engineering Team Consensus Committee 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. computer software engineer and computer programmer positions. But let’s go further on education. As a consequence, women hold only 22 percent of all U.S.

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Mentor GDP Education Engineering 50

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2016

in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Away from work, he serves as a board member of the Volunteers of America – Los Angeles chapter as well as chairman of the Deming Medal Committee for the American Society of Quality. Bill earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D.

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Deming Committee Conference Engineering 28

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In business terms, a superstar computer engineer is unlikely to write 100 times more code than an average performer. However, the quality of the code the super-star writes could result in billions of people using Google as opposed to AltaVista and other search engines. Copyright Atta Tarki, Used by permission.

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Sports Definition Long-term Quality 102

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 26, 2011

Spending hours in a committee meeting attempting to decide which option should be pursued over others as the least likely to end in failure.

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Review Books Drucker Committee 147

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

You are about to graduate with that coveted engineering degree. If you met an engineer or other tech staff member from that company at a seminar, conference or other event, namedrop that in your letter. Dr. Radu Reit is the Vice-Chair of the Marketing Committee at the Society for Information Display (SID). About the Author.

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Engineering Letter Seminar Conference 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

And they count on well-intentioned, smart people sitting in a committee to decide which ideas are worth pursuing. Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they need a process that operates with speed and urgency , and that helps innovators and other stakeholders to curate and prioritize problems, ideas, and technologies.

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Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. This takes many forms, but one of the most insidious forms of resistance is based on “one no.” Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

If everyone agrees on these values, you won’t have the legal department wordsmithing the life out of marketing documents, or engineers padding out white papers with inappropriate technical detail. These values might include brevity, directness, and backing up statements with evidence, for example. Make sure everyone knows their roles.

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Committee White Paper Document Review 8

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a blog published February 19, 2017 by former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, she outlined how her sexual harassment complaint to the Uber human resources department against her team manager was ignored. Even though this is a human resource issue, whistleblower hotline complaints are reviewed by the audit committee of the board.

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Silverman Career Succession Ethics 108

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Hank has provided senior level advising services for more than 5,000 client organizations (including 100 of the Fortune 500), companies in transition (startup, re-engineering, mergers, going public), public sector entities, professional associations and non-profit organizations. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Your once-nimble company becomes a lumbering behemoth that has to appoint a committee to determine how many committee meetings to hold. The product development team in a sporting goods company I worked with had to deal with elaborate engineering change orders (ECOs) for even the most basic spec changes. Focus on the big picture.

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Process Committee Policies Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Back in 1908, the Army learned of a clever engineer — Frederick Taylor , subsequently dubbed "the father of scientific management" — and his success in making steel manufacturing more productive in Pennsylvania. When Taylor agreed, they focused first on the big Watertown Arsenal, the least efficient and highest cost in the system.

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Taylorism Taylor Committee Engineering 8

Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The man was famous, an influential member of the selection committee. If I could travel in time and advise my younger self, I would tell the poor schmuck to pursue statistics, and financial engineering. As a finalist, I thought my interviews were going well and I had an excellent chance of being selected. But I can't do that.

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Video Learning-by-Doing Blog Committee 92

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Then, inspired by the clamshell cell phones of the 1990s, a clever engineer would connect the keyboard to the screen with a hinge, making tablet covers and stands obsolete. Third-party vendors would soon offer external devices modeled on typewriters that would make those annoying keyboarding errors a thing of the past.

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McKinsey Automotive Committee Middle Management 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. These goals include aiming for Yelp’s sales teams to match the composition of the diverse communities in which they operate, increasing its proportion of female engineers, and making its culture more inclusive. The numbers were grim.

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Diversity Engineering Committee Brainstorming 8

HR Digest

JUNE 7, 2023

Since the conclusion of the national bargaining round in late 2022, 40 new sick leave agreements have been reached across the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC) carriers with all unions, 10 of which did not previously have a set number of traditional paid sick days. Under the agreement effective Aug.

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Policies Transportation Committee Engineering 98

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I simply hadn’t realized that the exact quality that made me an ideal candidate earlier in my academic career — a “Renaissance person” who was interested in many disciplines — made me anathema to doctoral admissions committees, which were seeking hyper-specialized applicants.

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Learning-by-Doing Engineering Outsourcing Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

For instance, an introverted engineer who dreads socializing but does not mind pulling the occasional all-nighter might feel less obligated to take part in every social event, knowing that she can be the one to take charge when someone has to stay late to complete a critical project.

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Motivation How To Consensus Reference 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

If the strategist is a CEO, the reviewer is the board (or a committee thereof). Return a third time when you have reverse-engineered the possibilities to determine what you believe would have to be true and have identified which of those things that you feel are least likely to hold true.

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Strategy Deming Review Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Any member of the SHG, either individually or as a team, could pitch a proposal to use the available funds to a microfinancing committee of bank officials and village elders. The committee, moved by her courage and business acumen, approved her funding. Her daughter is now a teacher and her son an engineer.)

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Microfinance Innovation Committee Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Now the target is the search engine — the very core of Google's universe — with near identical proceedings in the U.S., First, he needs to explain to committee members and to the public, in plain terms, how Google's search engine works. the EU, and South Korea. well, that's because it is.

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Committee Engineering Politics Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Email and early web browsers were still the province of "techies," none of our current search engines existed, and there wasn't much to learn or do nor was there anyone to meet "online" even if you knew how to get there. But there was more to the challenge.

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Education Technology Engineering Committee 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

I wasn’t a software engineer, and I was tempted to leave agile methods to the geeks. Second, add a new chief “X” officer to the already-bloated executive committee. Time boxes, retrospectives, scrum masters, and all the other gobbledygook that surrounds agile felt like giant “Keep Out!”

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Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The team that implemented the initiative was led by a physician and a scientist-engineer, and its members were drawn from Mayo’s Emergency Department (ED) and the Clinic’s Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. So they embraced the idea of location devices.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

Two of the people on Malik's six-person Management Committee are women, and he sees the possibility that his successor could be female. There are three senior women who have been listed as high potential so we could have a majority female Management Committee in the foreseeable future.". "We

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Management Committee Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This lesson can be applied more broadly, including to systematizing search processes, appointment of physicians to committees, and nomination for leadership roles and increased responsibility. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost.

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Health Care Leadership Diversity Career 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

But only the human oversight committee approves what gets “autonomized” and how it is implemented. In this model, data scientists are interlocutors and ambassadors between the autonomy oversight committee and the targets of implementation. It’s a different kind of engineering.”

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

But like so much of what we do in America's startup culture, I worry that we are taking this basic insight to crazy excess, making the claim that one superstar engineer is literally more valuable more than one hundred good engineers (Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg) or worth more than 200 good engineers (Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen).

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IPO Engineering Taylorism Taylor 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

The publicly traded, limited liability company is the engine of the modern western economy. As one wag put it, “it is a bit like giving Vladimir Putin a vote on the Senate Armed Services Committee.” Its investments support our prosperity. ” So we have ended up with a system that creates “ownerless corporations.”

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Company Offshoring Finance Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

China is going to be a big market for aircraft, engines, and avionics, and this deal puts GE in position to be a strong if not dominant player in these areas for at least a while and perhaps for a long time, depending on China's intentions and abilities to develop its own GE. But can Immelt say that?

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Committee Globalization Advice Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

The compensation committee should push for clearer links between pay and performance for IT-related activity (which ultimately is nearly everything most firms do). For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages.

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The review summarizes what sets Apple apart from other companies: a relentless product focus, a culture of delivery, and an extraordinary marketing engine that communicates the magic of each new Apple offer. I was struck last week by a review of Inside Apple , the book by Adam Lashinsky that promises to decode the secrets of Apple's success.

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Strategy Wilde Committee Review 14