Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology. We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require.

Chief Technology Officer 12

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Infomocracy , by governance researcher Malka Older, explores how software could change our public institutions through the social and technical engineering of elections. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns.

Stephenson 15

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

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

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team. Landing on Mars is a huge engineering challenge. But to the young engineers it was simply a challenge to be bested. Spirit and Opportunity both landed successfully using the same airbag technology as Pathfinder. It was innovative and seemingly crazy.

Innovation 211

Innovation Engineering Learning-by-Doing Creativity 211

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. reduced instances of teams playing four games in five days by 26%.

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley was built on amazing products, not on stellar leadership skills. It’s true that if a start-up fails — or is sold — the need for enduring leadership may never arise. It’s true that if a start-up fails — or is sold — the need for enduring leadership may never arise. Rule 3: Embrace constraints.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Financial capital was recognized as the scarce resource and its shortage a significant constraint on growth. Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions?

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

That’s a full day a week, without having to re-engineer any work processes or business models. Spotlight Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb The barriers preventing your talented women from fulfilling their leadership potential are subtle.

Delegation 8

Delegation Business Model Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

The third was around thought leadership. Does the circular economy decouple growth from resource constraints? Renault has a 230 million Euro remanufacturing business with engines and gear boxes. The remanufactured cars leave the factory with the same warranty as a new engine. How do you begin to address those?

Company 10

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

And just like software engineers who hold code in their head or a law firm partner who controls critical client relationships, the Dana-Farber scientists hold a credible threat of walking out the door with their IP and grant-winning prowess. And they faced big constraints. Use simple, off-the-shelf tools to make collaboration smoother.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Professionals of color, women, and LGBTs find there is a much narrower band of acceptance, and the constraints bite harder than wearing more polished outfits, getting a decent haircut, or even de-emphasizing an accent. If you want to be perceived as leadership material, do you suppress your difference or embrace it?

EPS 8

EPS Hypercompetition Diversity Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Be up front about organizational constraints. Be frank that the person lacks certain leadership qualities, for example. He now occupies a hybrid leadership role that involves helping AdRoll commercialize its products. “I said, ‘Prove to me that you can help these engineers be more efficient and work better together.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Short-term Goal Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Think like engineers and customers.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Because of the way industrial products are designed and engineered, you know that when your production line is spitting out Model T cars, you can be reasonably certain they will work as designed. This approach to project leadership is not common, but we see it more frequently on startup teams and in smaller organizations.

Project 8

Project Management Uncertainty Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Congressional leadership quickly declared this a major victory for "job creators" and business in general. What about the companies and entrepreneurs that create cleaner ways of operating or provide the pollution-reducing technologies? It's anything but. Those are real jobs too , aren't they?

Cost 10

Cost Industry Constraint Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

What are the constraints?". IT [information technology] was an area where I think the president and his team understood that this was not only good for citizens in general, and good to enable government and healthcare and education, but it also provided an area where Rwanda could build economic activity. How do we upgrade?

Porter 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

A team of engineers, designers, operations specialists, and clinicians was assembled and led by an experienced, well-respected physician “chief engineer” whose vision for the future of care was disruptive. Create a dedicated multidisciplinary team.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8