Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. Core Competencies.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

So, find a mentor, hire a coach, take a 360, read some self-development or leadership books. When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers. And whe leadership models it, perhaps it will catch on with others too. Attend a retreat.

Learning-by-Doing 185

Learning-by-Doing Blog Class Open-book 185

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

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

JUNE 1, 2015

Build off its core competence, or play from weakness? Engineers at the company came down squarely on the side of analog. What those engineers couldn’t see was that, for most listeners, digital technology’s advantages far outweighed the often undetectable losses from digitization. Internal debate raged.

Organization 8

Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Instead, it should try to persuade them that competition in the mobile space is radically different from that in traditional markets and consequently, the European Union — and the United States, for that matter — should revamp their antitrust laws. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Incentives Operations Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market. One way to do so is to periodically “mark to market” skills and capabilities, growing those skills that are market relevant.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 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. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

We call this approach “strategy as learning,” which contrasts sharply with the view of strategy as a stable, analytically rigorous plan for execution in the market. market, its executives formulated a strategy of developing so-called clean-diesel vehicles that leveraged the company’s core competence.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

When modular in design, they adapt easily for different markets and can evolve over time. Pratt & Whitney has partnered with IBM to enhance its engine management offering. To do so, it is complementing its own assets (engines) and domain expertise with IBM’s rich portfolio of software (data and analytics) assets.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. Transformers.

Shaw 13

Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 13