Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? Six selected insights are presented here, tempered with our own experience in many years of consulting with global engineering initiatives.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. However, the company's initial steps to penetrate developing markets were unproductive. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones. The lesson is clear.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The Chief Entrepreneur will be responsible for managing a portfolio of entrepreneurs who experiment with new business models and value propositions. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” You persevere.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. For a holiday promotion, a young project manager and his marketing colleagues launched a “treasure hunt,” working nonstop to launch registration pages, clues, and an hourly countdown clock.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes. Developing the Global Leader.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

She loved her job, and with a background in public affairs in communications had been successful in both international business and management roles. But as she began to consider her future at the company, she realized that all of the people above her were white, male engineers or accountants. Executing on Innovation. Innovation'

Innovation 12

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

The original creation of Sephora.com was largely outsourced, and we didn’t have an internal digital development team when I joined. So, one of the first things I did — and something I’d recommend to anyone who’s serious about building a digital brand — was to bring web development in-house. It’s new, but shouldn’t be.

Brand 11

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT management'

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. Agile software development.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8